ANTIPHON TRIO: Deep Listening Experience

Doors open at 7pm, at 7:15 Matt Samolis will perform an Contemplative Acoustic Drone Immersion on a custom made, {modified} ‘Bow Chime’. Followed by a brief intermission and Antiphon Trio.

Antiphon Trio is made up of Michael Century (accordion), Chris Fisher-Lochhead (viola), and  Zach Layton (17-string electric bass guitar). This unique instrumentation creates rich, resonant acoustic  inputs, which are then fed into Pauline Oliveros’s Expanded Instrument System (EIS). The EIS can be considered as an "ecstatic time machine," a system designed to expand temporal perception where, in Oliveros’s terms, "present/past/future is occurring simultaneously with transformations". This temporal layering is  achieved through multiple delays and processing algorithms, resulting in an evolving, emergent spatio-temporal field, or timescape, that induces discoveries and disciplined practices of deep listening and response. WATCH

The concept of "Antiphon" – meaning "sounding in response" and deriving from roots of  "concord" or "concordance" perfectly encapsulates the trio’s interaction, not only among …