Morgan Evans-Weiler returns to the Red Room to stimulate your winter brain with enigmatic sounds. You don’t want to miss this violinist and composer/improviser who consistently presents music that stretch your ear to listen in new ways. Also on the bill, Horizon Overflow is a Baltimore-area group of rotating regulars. Tonight Horizon Overflow includes Max Gong (trumpet), Rose Burt (saxophone), Nate Scheible (drum), and Samuel Burt (???).
Morgan Evans-Weiler is a Philadelphia-based artist and musician whose work explores questions related to non-linear temporalities, materialities, impermanence, and the correspondence between visual and sonic modes of thought. He examines these themes through an interdisciplinary approach to score making, performance, installation, photography, sculpture, collage, drawing, and writing.
An avid collaborator, Evans-Weiler has worked extensively with other musicians including the experimental ensemble, Ordinary Affects, and ambient/new age duo, Earthroom. Throughout the years, he has worked with a notable range of musicians and composers including Christoph Schiller, Luke Martin, J.P.A. Falzone, Laura Cetilia, Jordan Dykstra, Carlo Costa, Derek Baron, Seth Cluett, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Michael Pisaro, Jurg Frey, Eva-Maria Houben, and Magnus Granberg.
He has received funding for his projects from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, the Cambridge Arts Council, the Cornell Arts Council, and Pro Helvetia. His work has shown throughout the U.S. at museums and galleries such as the Bridget Donahue Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Tjaden Gallery, Neighbors Gallery, Sutton St. Gallery, and more. As a composer and performer, Morgan has performed throughout the U.S. and internationally at venues such as Roulette, Issue Project Room, Jordan Hall, the Wulf, Iklektic Art Lab, and High Zero Festival.
Evans-Weiler has been reviewed and featured in many contemporary art and music publications. Writer, Steve Smith, included his album Violin/Sine in the Boston Globe’s “Best Local Classical Albums of 2015” list, calling the record “transfixing”. Alex Huddleston, wrote of his duo record with J.P.A. Falzone, “theirs is a complementary relationship to which many aspire but so few achieve” in Tempo quarterly magazine. And Ben Harper wrote of his album with Christoph Schiller, Spinet and Violin, “I haven’t heard many pieces this year composed as well as this improvisation.” His compositions and performances have been featured on many labels including Another Timbre, Important Records, New World Records, Editions Wandelweiser, Editions Verde, Elsewhere, Suppedeneum, Weighter Recordings, Rhizome.s, Meena, Reading Group, and Astres d’Or, Falt, and Ftarri.
https://ftarrilabel.bandcamp.com/album/object-monochord-circle
https://sawyereditions.bandcamp.com/album/jpa-falzone-and-morgan-evans-weiler-ascending-music
https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/penumbra
