A double bill featuring  Matt Evans’ Aquatic House, opened by trumpeter and electroacoustic composer Chris Ryan Williams.

Chris Ryan Williams’s Cavernous Resonance is an audiovisual exploration of the resonance of cavernous spaces. The work pulls inspiration from Plato’s ideals and the Allegory of the Cave, as well as Chris’s research in Puerto Rico where he has documented the spatial, architectural, and sonic qualities of caves. The performance will be accompanied by artist Laura Sofía Pérez’s video and film footage of caves and travelers in Puerto Rico.

Chris Ryan Williams trumpet & electronics
Laura Sofía Pérez film & video projection

Matt Evans Aquatic House gathers together small groups of musicians to embody Evans’ drum-driven electroacoustic compositions in a rotating, modular fashion.

Matt Evans drums and electronics
Chris Ryan Williams trumpet and electronics
Domenica Fossati flute

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Matt Evans is a drummer, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn. His performances and recordings collage together drum-driven improvisations, playful synthesized sound-organisms, and various musical collaborators to create brightly-hued and embodied electroacoustic sound worlds. His compositions draw inspiration from millennial esoterica, surreal natural phenomena, and science fiction, resulting in hypnotic soundscapes that have been described as “hyperreal and phantasmal” (Wire Magazine), and “a form of chill complexity” (New York Times). Matt is a life-long collaborator, frequently working with other musicians, choreographers, artists, and filmmakers in both precise compositions and intuitive, improvisatory projects.

Chris Ryan Williams is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY whose work unfolds through electroacoustic composition and performance installation. His EP Live earned praise from Jazz Right Now and The Quietus for its “dazzling collaged pieces that ricochet between improvised passages and written material” (Peter Margasak, The Quietus). His debut LP Odu: Vibration II, praised by Pitchfork and named one of NPR’s Best New Albums, reimagines a journey through Plato’s Cave. Williams’ work has been performed and presented extensively across the U.S. and Europe, including at the Venice Biennale, Roulette Intermedium, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Royal Danish Playhouse, National Sawdust, and Performa Biennial. He has received commissions from the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, WasteLAnd, the American Composers Forum, and the International Contemporary Ensemble.