Sunday November 16 * 7pm * $10-20

Dave Scanlon writes austere songs and continues a series of "counting" compositions focusing on intonation and measurement. He has released music on Ramp Local, New Amsterdam Records, Tzadik Records, Hometapes, Clean Feed Records, New Atlantis Records, and Whatever's Clever. Scanlon has performed with Jason Ajemian, David Behrman, Chuck Bettis, Hayashi Eiichi, Alvin Lucier, Jessica Pavone, Yamamoto Seiichi (of The Boredoms), Alena Spanger, Otomo Yoshihide, and numerous others. Scanlon will be performing selections from Greenland Shark, an album written about the North Atlantic fish, Somniosus microcephalus. In addition, he will perform "Monochromatic Pool", a piece written for guitar and narrator about the exoplanet Proxima Centauri B.

Max Hamel is a craftsperson, musician, artist and instrument maker with diverse practices ranging from professional fine violin luthiery to handmade live electronics. Their performance work builds upon a foundation of circuit bending, feedback, magic, touch and chaos, delighting in subtlety, pliable gesture and flippant ambiguity. Raised in the DC metro area, they recently moved back to Washington, DC from New Haven, CT where they lived since 2019, working as a luthier and performing in basements, bookstores, galleries, warehouses, crypts and libraries throughout the northeast United States. They perform and release solo work under the names Max Hamel, HSFB, and Head Separating from Body, and play in groups including Rear Window (with Zach Rowden and Rex Morris), Cut Nails (with Rex Morris) and Chicken Flag (with Matt Wellins).

Juan Horie is a Venezuelan/American cellist who was trained in Venezuela's acclaimed SISTEMA, studying modern cello in the Academia Latinoamericana de Violoncello with Maestros Leandro Bandres and William Molina Cestari. Following his passion for Ancient Music he entered the Latin American Academy of Ancient Music (ALMA) and studied baroque cello with Maestro Manuel Hernandez. While Juan was studying at IUDEM and Simon Bolivar Conservatory, he was a member of the Teresa Carreño Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Simón Bolívar Baroque Orchestra. His international engagements as member of the Teresa Carreño Youth Symphony Orchestra include playing at the Beethoven Fest in Bonn, Salzburg Festspiele, Teatro Alla Scala of Milan, Berlin Philharmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, among other halls in Europe and Asia under the batons of renowned conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, and Christian Vasquez. In 2015 he won a chair in the cello section of the Teresa Carreno Symphony Orchestra, a professional orchestra constituted by a national selection of the third generation of musicians formed in Venezuela’s SISTEMA. In 2017 Juan was forced to emigrate from Venezuela to escape from the political/economical/social situation and moved to the United States.