EUDIMORPHODON
PHIL STONE
MELTYKISS

MELTYKISS is a Brooklyn-based duo project of drummer Max Goldstein and vocalist Ariel Vera. Meltykiss focuses on guided improvisation based off a conceptual form created collaboratively. The sound of Meltykiss is influenced by the likes of Sun Ra, Chris Corsano, Marcela Lucatelli, Zach Hill, and more blending stylistic ideas based on free jazz and heavy idioms to create charged, scribbly, loop-based noise.

PHIL STONE presents Another Day at the Entropy Mine for solo improviser in a one-node network. Using software processes and instruments (mostly) of his own design*, Stone initiates and nudges cascades of probabilistic responses to the notes he plays on electric bass. In his work with the network band “The Hub”, Stone often employed self-connected network processes during development and testing, to simulate the group dynamic. He found interesting results from this ‘one-node network’ and began to think of it as a musical instrument in its own right, worthy of its own body of technique and practice.

(*) In addition to his own software voicing, Stone employs the Free Open Source “Surge XT” software synthesizer, to which he has contributed an OSC interface.

EUDIMORPHODON, is an early pterosaur AND a new duo with Dan Plonsey (saxophones) and Matthew Welch (bagpipes). Featuring compositions and improvisations by both for this unique combination of reeds, Plonsey and Welch dig deep into their love for odd creaturesand characters to summon forth wild sonic beasts of imagination.