Ground Report is an evening of field recording and found sounds.

Hunter Batchelder will play field recording collages related to themes of migration and belonging. His sounds are sourced from his travels through the mid-Atlantic United States, Medellin, Colombia, and Livingstone, Zambia. 

Carrie Fucile will perform Souvenir, a work that uses her original field recordings from a trip to Sofia, Bulgaria, and a public domain field recording of an alarm activated every year on June 2nd in memory of the Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary Hristo Botev. Fucile will also play melodica and be joined by her friend Dave Klinger on trumpet.

Nate Scheible will present a piece for bowed instruments and lung ailments, with Samuel Burt and Alma Laprida. 

Hunter Batchelder is an improvisational percussionist and sound artist. His practice focused on incorporating sounds and rhythms from various locations and cultures to emphasize their similarities and celebrate their uniqueness. Through this practice, he pulls at the threads between cultures, nature, and materials, generating unique sonic landscapes.

Carrie Fucile is a Baltimore-based sound artist who explores memories embodied in objects, architecture, and landscapes. Her work seeks to expose how traces of the past continue to live with us in the present. In live performance she often incorporates field recordings, electronics, amplified objects, voice, and analog instruments. (carriefucile.net)

Dave Klinger ​spent twelve years making music in Washington, DC before moving to Baltimore in 2021. As Forgetter he performs and sings short, strange, piano-based songs. He has played trumpet off and on for the last 30 years.

Nate Scheible is a DC-based artist who has performed and recorded in a variety of bands and ensembles spanning multiple genres over the past 30 years. His background is largely based in improvisation on drums, electronics, and analog tape. His work is featured prominently on releases by the labels Warm Winters Ltd., Outside Time, Unifactor, and Feeding Tube.

Samuel Burt is a composer and improvisor in Baltimore, Maryland. His music focuses on experimental processes that ride the line between chaos and bewildering novelty. He curates music at the High Zero Festival, the Red Room, and Worlds in Collusion. He plays clarinets, synthesizers, and the daxophone. He teaches music composition at Towson and Johns Hopkins Universities.

Alma Laprida (San Miguel, Argentina) is a musician and multi-disciplinary artist whose creative pursuits encompass composition, improvisation, performance, installation, instrument building and radiophonic pieces. She’s known for her work with the tromba marina, a rare string instrument mostly used between the Middle Ages and the Baroque eras in Europa. 

Event location:

Normals Books and Records