The Red Room presents a night of vibrant, complex improvisation.
Patrick Crossland, Toshi Makihara, Caleb Duval
Logan Perry, Elliot Jeter, August Payne, Lemuel Marc
Toshi Makihara‘s performance utilizes traditional percussion with a variety of discovered sound media, everyday objects and toys. Through a rigorous, systematic, and practiced process of experimentation, Makihara seeks out sounds that have never been heard before, experimenting with touch, force, and speed, and always remaining aware of sound’s relationship to the body. Makihara studied drums and percussion with Sabu Toyozumi in Tokyo. He has also studied Butoh with the Master Kazuo Ohno.
Caleb Duval is a improvisor, and bassist from Manchester, Connecticut. He has performed with Joe Morris, Tony Malaby, Tatsuya Nakatani, Brandon Lopez, James McKain, Jack Wright and Mike Pride. He is founder of the record label firstnamelastname, co-organizes the FIM Improvised Music concert series and record label in New Haven, and regularly performs and records with his Connecticut-based extreme metal band Beth. FIM has hosted over 100 shows in the Connecticut area and has presented the music from musicians all over the world. His work has been featured in The New Haven Independent and Jazz Podium, on BBC3 Radio’s Freeness and at the 2022 Catalytic Sound Festival.
Trombonist Patrick Crossland was born in Jackson, Mississippi. Growing up in southern Louisiana, he began playing trombone at age 10. His musical study continued at the University of Southern Mississippi, the Manhattan School of Music, the Royal College of Music, the University of Minnesota, and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik – Trossingen. An enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, he has collaborated with established and young composers from around the world. Prominent solo performances include the Walker Art Center’s “Festival Dancing In Your Head”, the Darmstadt Course for New Music, where he was awarded a Solo Performance Prize, and the American Trombone Workshop. He has created two multimedia performance projects – “V for Grock” and “Krieg dem Krieg” – which have been presented in the US and Europe. In addition to his activities as a soloist and chamber musician, he is an avid improviser, working with a wide range of musicians and dancers. He is a member of the Composers Slide Quartet and Ensemble Laboratorium. Patrick Crossland teaches trombone and improvisation at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Perry (Drums), Jeter (Guitar), and Payne (Bass), have played and performed together throughout the Mid Atlantic, exploring new territory for rock power trio instrumentation; styles ranging from art punk, to free improvisation, to avant-chaabi-jazz-rock. On this special occasion they are joined by Lemuel Marc from Boston on Trumpet. These four are representatives of a bold new generation of improvisers working in various disciplines that value communal creativity above individual interests.
