Metatron Press CD release event featuring
Zitt/Matis and Comma
9-11 pm open to the public, no admission charge
at Galaxy Hut
2711 Wilson Blvd
Arlington VA 22201
Monday, October 25th
Galaxy Hut's first ever "Fringe music night" will feature experimental improvised music by the guitar/voice duo Zitt/Matis and the vocal trio Comma. The groups will perform independently and mixed in various combinations.
Joseph Zitt and Jonathan Matis perform primarily improvised music for voice and guitar. Jonathan plays electric guitar with a variety of preparations and signal processors and Joseph sings, chants, and sounds in languages known and unknown. Their music draws freely on the vocabularies of free jazz, experimental classical, ambient, and world musics. The musiciansâ backgrounds in improvisation, composition, experimentation, and classical, religious, jazz, and rock musics combine to create new music that is challenging as well as mysteriously absorbing.
Comma is an ensemble specializing in music that involves improvisation and mindfulness practices. Their repertory includes newly composed musical works, performance poetry, chant from various early traditions, and group improvisations. Techniques include many extended uses of the voice as well as electro-acoustic environments.
The show will serve as a CD Release event for Metatron Press, which is issuing the first three items in a new series:
* "Even the Widest Aardvark Outdreams the Gnu" by Zitt/Matis
* a self-titled release by Gusty Winds May Exist, a shakuhachi/recorder duo featuring Nancy Beckman and Comma member Tom Bickley
* "Animals: electronikazoomusique", a collection of electronic works and mixes by Comma member Matthew Ross Davis.
For more information about the artists, please see:
http://www.metatronpress.com/artists/zittmatis
http://www.metatronpress.com/artists/gwme
http://www.metatronpress.com/artists/mrd
For information about Galaxy Hut, see
For more information please contact
Jonathan Matis
202 296 5101