Open Workshop and Playground in free improvisation hosted by Lewis Jordan:
Inviting musicians, poets, dancers, to a non-hierarchical setting to improvise together.
Spontaneously Assembled Small Groups will collaborate
Bring your instrument, your body, your poetry
Come to listen, to be heard, to see, to move

7:30–9:00 random grouping
9:00–10:00 p/re/arranged grouping

7:00 Load-in for everyone
7:30 Random trios ~7 minutes each (depending on number of participants)
9:00 Second round of less random groupings
10:00 Sound must stop

Donations for the venue rental are encouraged
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Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

Monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center. Bring your instrument or come to listen. Movement and other disciplines encouraged. No advance notice needed — just show up.

Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. Set up before 8:00 and be as ready to play as possible. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm.

Bring your own gear. As a rule, there are not instruments available to share. Anyone requiring amplification should bring a small amp. It’s recommended to bring an extension cable and power strip if you need power. Outlets and supplies are limited. Get in touch if you have any questions or special requests.

community agreements:
- Open and welcoming attitude.
- Respect for the space, which is an artist-run community resource. (Please show extra care for the recently refurbished dance floor.)
- Respect for other people and their instruments.
- - Be mindful of the personal space you inhabit while performing to ensure no harm is done to any people, instruments, etc.
- - Leave floor space for movement and movers. Secure your instrument when you’re not playing.

7:30 PM (over by 10 PM, see schedule below)
TAC: Temescal Art Center
511 48th Street, Oakland
Donations for the venue rental are encouraged.

7:30 - Load-in — everyone sets up simultaneously.
8:00 - Random trios (or other small groups), about 7 minutes each depending on number of participants.
9:00 - Second round of random trios.
10:00 - Sound must stop.

videos from past editions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_HPASqyjYfIjlxrLSSkeQ6VZHDZNx9DG

mailing list: https://heule.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9cd317ce9b99ee106279105ed&id=fcc26e79a5
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Line up:
Matthew Ryals
Andrej Hrončo + Amma Ateria
S'hells Gate: Cat Lauigan, Jon Carr, + Matt Brownell

Matthew Ryals is an award-winning synthesist and composer-improviser based in New York. Working primarily with modular synthesizer, his music explores improvisation, generative composition, cybernetics, and experimental archiving. Recognized for his tactile approach to synthesis and innovative use of esoteric techniques, Ryals’ recent accolades include a ’25 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, a ’22 -’23 New Music USA Award, and a ’21 IEA Electronic Media Residency. He has released music on Oxtail Recordings, sound as language, SØVN, and other labels. He co-curates the Brooklyn experimental music series Artifact. In 2025, Matthew will release three new projects: the final installment of his Generative Etudes series on 3OP, a live album debuting in summer 2025 on Infrequent Seams, and a collaborative album with composer Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie on Oxtail Recordings.

Amma Ateria is a philosophy held through her work, — to give strength to disintegration and fragility, to rebuild from aftermath, from dust. An electroacoustic composer / sound artist, her work examines psychoacoustics in binaural beats, brainwave entrainment, and equal-loudness contour. With immediacy of tension / release, she navigates between oppositions, transforming deafening noise into self hypnosis and metamorphosis. Compositions developed during her concussion recovery, utilizes brainwave entrainment, time shifts, and changes of neurological responses to DELTA, THETA, ALPHA, BETA, GAMMA waves as materials and focal point. With memories of condensed cities, she gravitates to frequencies of close-ranged airplanes, polyrhythmic occurrences, out-of-body experiences, sustained harmonics intersected with musique concrète, and lost speech.
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Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

Monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center. Bring your instrument or come to listen. Movement and other disciplines encouraged. No advance notice needed — just show up.

Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. Set up before 8:00 and be as ready to play as possible. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm.

Bring your own gear. As a rule, there are not instruments available to share. Anyone requiring amplification should bring a small amp. It’s recommended to bring an extension cable and power strip if you need power. Outlets and supplies are limited. Get in touch if you have any questions or special requests.

community agreements:
- Open and welcoming attitude.
- Respect for the space, which is an artist-run community resource. (Please show extra care for the recently refurbished dance floor.)
- Respect for other people and their instruments.
- - Be mindful of the personal space you inhabit while performing to ensure no harm is done to any people, instruments, etc.
- - Leave floor space for movement and movers. Secure your instrument when you’re not playing.

7:30 PM (over by 10 PM, see schedule below)
TAC: Temescal Art Center
511 48th Street, Oakland
Donations for the venue rental are encouraged.

7:30 - Load-in — everyone sets up simultaneously.
8:00 - Random trios (or other small groups), about 7 minutes each depending on number of participants.
9:00 - Second round of random trios.
10:00 - Sound must stop.

videos from past editions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_HPASqyjYfIjlxrLSSkeQ6VZHDZNx9DG

mailing list: https://heule.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9cd317ce9b99ee106279105ed&id=fcc26e79a5
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T.J. Borden (cello) + Jacob Felix Heule (percussion) + TBA
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