Outsound Presents8:00
Noah Phillips & Jason Hoopes Duo
8:45
Lucio Menegon's Sonic Demons on Edgetone (CD release set)
9:15 Lawson
Jacob Zimmerman, Drew Cecatto, Matt Nelson, Cory Wright (saxes), Michael Coleman and Dan VanHassel (keyboards), Dan Good (electronics and trumpet)
A large ensemble run by Jacob Zimmerman partially focused around sustained sounds with improvised counterpoint that utilizes a very specific type of pitch system
Sonic Demons is a dark sonic tale for dark times with a story that follows the plight of a broken down Lucifer, an over-eager Alchemist, a Faustian bargain, a fantastical steam-punk miracle machine, a deadly molecule, a scheming Vulcan and the very heavy Saturn. Sonic Demons features Lucio Menegon's signature guitar and electronic sounds in solo and collaborative compositions and improvisations
Noah Phillips' music and guitar playing is the result of listening to and emulating the works of many innovative guitar players, composers, and and rock bands of the 21st century. Phillips' early and lifelong influences include Bob Marley, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmore, and Jimi Hendrix. While living in a boarding school on the Big Island of Hawaii Phillips began to explore music of the North American African Diaspora including the early works of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Wes Montgomery, Taj Mahal, and John Lee Hooker.
After completing music studies at the University of Southern California Phillips along with reed player and composer Cory Wright formed the Grasshopper Quartet with with drummer Olysis Naranjo and bass player Aaron Kohen. Grasshopper Quartet eventually produced a record which became Phillips' first recorded works. It was around this time that Phillips also became very interested in the music coming out of the "New and Improvised" music community of Los Angeles wherein he met and began to perform with enigmatic woodwind player Lynn Johnston. Through Johnston Phillips along with close friend and colleague Jeremy Drake connected with multi-instrumentalist Chris Heenan, bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck, drummer Harris Eisenstadt who remain close friends.
Cost: $6-10