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** This event is postponed until further notice.

In A Change of Tone, musicians will “exhibit” new work in one venue while performing in another, creating a non-traditional listening experience.

The goal of A Change of Tone is to invite artists to sonically and musically explore the varied interrelations between technical musical themes and humanity: what we experience, observe, believe, and imagine within the realms of our intellectual capabilities.

Admission is free (but donations of any amount are suggested); please RSVP on Eventbrite
Doors at 7 pm | Performances beginning each night at 7:30 pm

Lineup:
Saturday, April 18 – NICHOLAS MALONEY
Saturday, April 19 – GUNTER GAUPP
Monday, April 20 – THE ACHELOIS COLLECTIVE

ABOUT THE EVENT:
During this event, there will be two live-feed interconnections between The Green Room music venue at Crosstown Arts and Crosstown Theater. The first feed will be an audio feed for the audience in The Green Room, as the musicians, out of sight, perform their original work in the empty Crosstown Theater. The second feed will video-capture The Green Room audience so the performing musicians in the Theater may virtually watch and technically perform for their audience on the screen. The audience in The Green Room will be informed in advance that they will be watched by the performing musicians in the theater, creating an immersive environment in which the performers’ new music might achieve a vivid and seemingly living omnipresence.

Similar to the experience of being inside a haunted house or abandoned building, this spectral approach to auditory perception will be, among other things, a sonic experiment in vulnerability. It will be an attempt to enhance and heighten the audio-sensory experience for the listener and perhaps will intensify the presence and impact that music can have when our fight-or-flight response is instinctively activated, giving the sounds we hear the power to demand our full attention.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Nicholas Maloney:
Nicholas Maloney is a sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, performer, and recording engineer from Jackson, Mississippi. Working primarily in the areas of drone, ambient, musique concrète, and electroacoustics, Nicholas creates recordings that he feels can provoke emotion, while at the same time offering a palette of sound that can be used to practice the rewarding act of deep listening. He looks to challenge the listeners’ focus and perception of sound. Much of his work explores the textural nature of sound within a framework of progressing and evolving compositions. He is interested in the interaction among texture, sound, and space.

Under his full name, Nicholas Maloney creates and releases compositions using field recordings, found sounds, and a variety of processing and audio transformation techniques. He also records under the moniker, Blanket Swimming, exploring the more melodic and ambient side of experimental music using guitar, synthesizers, tape manipulation, field recordings, voice, and other instrumentation. Maloney also records under the name Sleep Silver Lightning, exploring compositions for the guitar and voice. In 2015, Maloney co-founded the net-label Warm Milk Recordings with Whitson Ramsey.

Gunter Gaupp:
Gunter is a composer and teacher based in Memphis, who’s work combines interests in noise composition and genre music. Born in Louisiana, Gunter’s recent work maintains a connection to jazz and folk traditions in his approach to melody and harmony, while exploring new possibilities through extended technique and graphic notation. His music has been premiered recently in Chicago and Green Bay, as well as internationally in Vienna and Paris. Gunter completed his MM in 2019 at the University of Memphis, where he studied composition under Kamran Ince and John Baur. More recently, Gunter has begun teaching music to middle and high school students at Memphis Rise Academy. Gunter will be presenting his new work for A Change of Tone as a quintet, featuring Aaron Phillips (saxophone), Anna Welden (voice), Bryan Pallotta (piano), Michael Todd (percussion), and Ben Walsh (double bass).

The Achelois Collective:
The Achelois Collective is a contemporary chamber ensemble dedicated to helping co-design opportunities to create healthier communities through the art of new music. The ensemble’s 10 members are featured as composers, collaborators, chambers musicians, and soloists who hail from across the continental U.S. Established in the summer of 2019, TAC seeks to elevate, celebrate, and embolden female/non-binary voices in modern music and to support projects by artists of under-acknowledged backgrounds and nationalities.

In an effort to assist the world of classical music to become more egalitarian, TAC creates spaces for active participation and appreciation for audiences of all genders, ages and musical knowledge. Equally important, the Collective strives to represent within themselves a model of respect and appreciation for the unique abilities and perspectives of their members and collaborators.