[SKRONK’]: Christopher Cox \ Master Oogway

Lucas Abela will unfortunately NOT PERFORMLucas ‘Granpa’ Abela (fka Justice Yeldham) has performed their signature instrument; amplified shards of glass for over twenty years now. Their singular practice spawned from the noise music underground, the glass evolving from a means to create ecstatic free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile instrument producing some kind of organic electronica. Abela plays the glass by transmitting vibrations into the pane through their lips to control a modular patch using no traditional syntheses techniques. Instead of oscillators & envelope generators all sounds & modulations produced are derived from glass itself. The patch extracting control voltages from the dynamics & frequency of the performance, enabling the glass’ raw audio to modulate itself as it makes its way through varying parallel effects chains producing ghostly accompaniments, which blended together form dense layers of anomalous music.Dualplover.com/yeldhamChristopher Cox & George CremaschiChristopher Cox is a veteran trombonist, composer, and improviser, who has worked with many of the world’s most celebrated free jazz explorers. Born and raised in Northern California, he was fortunate to be a young man during the 1990s Bay Area free jazz Renaissance. He has toured and performed with Marco Eneidi, Glenn Spearman, Jason Robinson, Billy Bang, Cecil Taylor, political hip-hop/jazz group Junkyard Empire, and famed poet Amiri Baraka.His trombone sound is dark and expansive, while also having the ability to bring out the faintest frequencies the trombone has to offer, experimenting with split tones, multiphonics, and his own technique of manipulating the overtone series with a mix of lip movements, something he refers to as lip-phonics. His tone is bold and round, not unlike a bass trombonist in an orchestra. Add to all of this a healthy dose of electronics (see the groups Sapient Paradox and Cosmic Cluster) via bass and guitar effects pedals, and you have anything from a wall of sound to a faint whisper that echoes for minutes. His live performances frequently move from sparse and meditative ambient drones to psychedelic free jazz. What holds the entire thing together is a fierce dedication to tone, sound, and melody. He rarely relies on pure emotion when he plays.https://on.soundcloud.com/y0PJ2RfNySP57pRDrFDouble bass player George Cremaschi (USA), former member of the jazz and experimental music scene, works with a variety of approaches and strategies in the areas overlapping music, sound art and noise. In thirty years as a composer and performer he has a long and diverse history of working with musicians, filmmakers, dancers and choreographers, visual artists, and writers. Some of his current projects include the groups KRK (w/Matthew Ostrowski), Lambs Gamble (w/Fritz Welch and Eric Boros) and Broken Ghost Consort (w/Matthew Goodheart and Georg Wissel).He is also the founder (w/Petr Vrba) and director of Prague Improvisation Orchestra (PIO), a 15-member group working with conducted and free improvisation and graphic scores.