Avant Jazz: Past

Colored is a 45-minute dance celebrating the twisted beauty of blackness.

Percussionist William Hooker portrays the movement of African–Americans from the American South through music, visuals, dance, and narrative.

New compositions for quintet by Will Mason featuring extensive live processing and electronic sounds, plus improvisation.

Electronic instruments coincide with acoustic instruments for improvised music from saxophonist Aaron Burnett.

Musical ideas merge from four directions by four creative musicians all moving in four directions.

Yajna is a solo vocal ritual, a sacrifice to the metaphoric sacred fire to purge the dark energies of this era.

World premiere of “The Goddess," a 1934 Chinese silent film with a live score by Min Xiao-Fen and Rez Abbasi.

The story of two musicians (French horn + washboard), both born on February 4th, punctuated by family tales rooted in research and DNA testing.

Avant-garde guitarist Gary Lucas accompanies the short films of queer cinema artist Curtis Harrington.

A follow up to 2014’s The Oversoul Manual, Samesoul Maker is a new composition for male voices in an invented language.