Two duos intersect, forming this trio of hyper-extended close miked mouthful and breath driven antics for double voice and trombone. They have separately toured the globe extensively, each carving out a unique approach to music making. As a trio or in extended projects, they have performed together in the UK, US, Portugal, Ukraine, Germany, Argentina and Brazil. 

A local trio opens the night with the electronic sounds of Dan DeLuca blending with Taylor Washington on violin and Corey Thuro on saxophone.

October 22nd, 2024 at the Red Room
8pm door, 8:30pm performance
$10-20 sliding scale

BEAM SPLITTER (Audrey Chen & Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø) is a duo for amplified voice, trombone & analog electronics.
They have been touring globally since 2015, playing over two hundred concerts
in a wide variety of spaces and contexts, bringing their own brand of highly amplified dialog,
which is as intimate as it is equal amounts raw and entirely exposed. They join together their
two individual voices into a distinct language that delves beyond the borders of the corporeal
elements of unprocessed voice and trombone, while utilizing analog electronics to offset their
hyper extended physical play.

The duo’s latest album “SPLIT JAW” was released on Nat Baldwin’s Tripticks Tapes in 2023.
This bite size format packs an entire universe of their crafted sputter, breath and glitch inside its
forty-five minute magnetic tape loop. The album is one third introspective Berlin studio
production and the rest, live from a splintering concert given at Wels Unlimited Festival in
Austria, their last concert of 2022 where audience and the duo alike giving it their all center of
room, split open like hollow bones head to clavicle, muscles twitching and air spewing, breaking
ground and mending it with alien hums.

BEAM SPLITTER have taken part in larger commissioned works at the Teatro Colon, Buenos
Aires and largely conceptualized a theatrical adaptation of MEDEA in front of the Olympic
Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine (for butoh dancers and musicians) produced by the Ukho Agency.
Since 2020, they have been organizing DEDICATED PLAY, an ongoing concert series and
collaborative artistic project, where they have invited a diverse array of artists from around the
world, primarily from diasporic backgrounds. While spinning a thread through the larger story of
migration across continents/oceans and establishing the concept of home in shared
relationships, they are seeking to bring together the commonalities of these experiences and
express this communication in sonic language and music. In the past two seasons, they have
worked and recorded with: Mo’ong Pribadi, Hyunhye Seo, Elaine Mitchener, Mariam Rezaei, Pat
Thomas & Orphy Robinson (Black top), Carla Boregas, Mauricio Takara, Mieko Suzuki, Pak Yan Lau, Eivind Lønning & Espen Reinersten (Streifenjunko), Hugo Esquinca and Yara Mekawei.

Phil Minton comes from Torquay in the UK. He played trumpet and sang with the Mike Westbrook Band in the early 60s- then in dance and rock bands in Europe for the later part of the decade. He returned to England in 1971, rejoining Westbrook and was involved in many of his projects until the mid 1980′s. For most of the last forty years, Phil has been working as an improvising singer in groups, orchestras and situations, in various locations worldwide. Some composers have written pieces that especially employ his extended vocal techniques and improvisations. He has a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher and ongoing duos with all the above. He also sings with many other musicians including Audrey Chen, with whom in the last fifteen years, he has performed worldwide. Since the eighties, his Feral Choir, where he voice-conducts workshops and concerts for anyone who wants to sing, has performed in over twenty countries. More recently, Phil has ongoing Duos with Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Guylaine Cosseron, Hugh Medcalfe and Szilard Mezei.

Dan DeLuca started his musical career playing saxophones in various jazz bands. After moving
to Atlanta, Georgia, he crossed over to playing “Southern Punk”, experimental and free jazz in
the bands “No Exit,” “The Psychotic Redundants,” and “Marilyn Monroe and the Supper Club,”
along with Steven Beach, Finnean, and the Hardy Brothers.

Moving to Chicago he played saxophone in various combos and participated in a variety of
seminars led by George Lewis, given by the (then) fledgling Experimental Sound Studio. It was
here that he met Joseph Fosco and began studying sound design with electronics.

In 2020 DeLuca turned his full attention to experimental electronic music, building modular
synthesizers and playing with various musicians. He currently resides in the Baltimore area and
releases music under the pseudonym “Fouchy Modular.”

Event location:

Red Room at Normals Books and Records