Fire Museum Presents:
Madame Mauvais Sang’s Musikal Variety Night featuring
Sam Cusumano
Lee Todd Lacks
Tom Swafford
Kate Olsen
Geoff Bucknum
Friday, April 10th 8:00 PM
First Banana
2152 E Dauphin St
Philadelphia, PA
$7-10 sliding scale
Madame Mauvais Sang presents a variety night of musick. Come for all. Outsider heads from Maine, New York, and Washington join forces with heavy Philly folks to lay down some heady space-time interventions. No sets. No holds barred. Come and go as you like, but don't sleep on it. We'll be holding down for you....
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Fire Museum Presents:
Madame Mauvais Sang’s Musikal Variety Night featuring
Sam Cusumano
Lee Todd Lacks
Tom Swafford
Kate Olsen
Geoff Bucknum
Friday, April 10th 8:00 PM
First Banana
2152 E Dauphin St
Philadelphia, PA
$7-10 sliding scale
Madame Mauvais Sang presents a variety night of musick. Come for all. Outsider heads from Maine, New York, and Washington join forces with heavy Philly folks to lay down some heady space-time interventions. No sets. No holds barred. Come and go as you like, but don't sleep on it. We'll be holding down for you.
WITH:
Sam Cusumano:
Sam Cusumano is a research and design engineer working with artists to help overcome the many complex technical challenges involved in art installation and presentation. As an experimental sound artist, Sam constructs custom and modified devices which are used to explain and demonstrate electrical properties, as well as create new sounds for live and recording artists. Through elaborate experimental exhibitions, Sam has created both interactive and passive listening environments, where guests are invited to explore and question the sources of sounds and patterns.
Providing live sound engineering, recording, and mastering for the local Philadelphia music scene over the past twelve years, Sam has worked with many well established, developing, and international traveling ensembles and soloists, facilitating hundreds of hours of entertainment to thousands of ears. Most recently collaborating with Joe Patitucci and Alex Tyson on a bio-interactive sonic experience, Data Garden: Quartet, Sam currently presents his experiential soundscapes as Electricity for Progress (an educational electronics initiative); Sam has also performed in a variety of improvisational and scripted ensembles for special events, as well as in the amazing psych-Rock band Niagara Falls, and the live production circuit bent dance party ‘pileofgirls’.
Lee Todd Lacks:
Freely incorporating experimental music and spoken word, Lee Todd Lacks seeks to blur the distinctions between rants, chants, anecdotes, and anthems. His experience of living with significant vision and hearing deficits often informs his writing, which has appeared or is forthcoming in The Alembic, Breath & Shadow, Clockwise Cat, and Tincture Journal. Lee Todd holds an M.A. in Ethnomusicology from Tufts University, and an M.A. in Expressive Therapies from Lesley. He now resides in South Portland, Maine, where he lives happily with his wife and young son.
Tom Swafford:
Violinist/composer Tom Swafford has performed with Lee Todd Lacks since they met in the Tufts University New Music Ensemble in 1993. Tom also works with guitarist Aram Bajakian in the groups Kef and Dalava, Americana band Cropdust and his own 12 piece string ensemble String Power (which will be releasing their debut album in the fall). He has worked with Jack Wright, Wayne Horvitz, Stuart Dempster, The Degenerate Art Ensemble and many others. Tom has a Ph.D. in composition from U.C. Berkeley. He has lived in Brooklyn, NY since 2007 and can often be heard busking on the NYC subway platforms.
Kate Olsen:
Kate Olson (KO SOLO) is an improvising saxophonist and woodwind teacher based in Seattle, WA. Since moving to Seattle in 2010, she has done her best to infiltrate the local, regional and international improvised music scenes. She can be heard performing with her own projects Syrinx Effect, KO SOLO, and the KO Ensemble and as a collaborator with Ask the Ages, Only Trio, the Seattle Rock Orchestra, the Royal Room Collective Music Ensembleand Electric Circus (led by Wayne Horvitz), the Seattle Jazz Composer's Ensemble and multiple other groups.
Kate has a BA in Music (Jazz Emphasis) from the University of Wyoming and an MM in Improvisation from the University of Michigan. Kate’s international resume continues to grow, including performances in Russia, Latvia, Turkey, Switzerland and Slovakia. She has appeared on stage with Terry Riley, Stuart Dempster, Pauline Oliveros, Allison Miller, Bobby Previte, Skerik, Patricia Barber and pop music icons Sir Mix-a-lot and Big Star's Third (featuring members of REM, the Posies, and Nada Surf) among others. In 2011 and 2013, Kate was nominated for the Earshot Golden Ear Award in the Emerging Artist category.
Geoff Bucknum:
Plays guitar.
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