Chicago-Iowa-Kansas City-Chicago noise improv quartet of Alexander Adams, Seth Andrew Davis, Bob Bucko Jr., and Will Yager make a rare appearance.
Andrew Scott Young leads a quartet with himself plus Dave Miller, Luke Polipnick, Jacob Fawcett.
8:30 pm
ASY Quartet:
Andrew Scott Young - double bass
Dave Miller - guitar
Luke Polipnick - guitar
Jacob - Fawcett - drum set
9:30p:
Seth Andrew Davis - guitar, electronics
Alexander Adams - drum set
Bob Bucko Jr. - saxophone
Will Yager - bass
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
About The Artists
Andrew Scott Young is a bassist, improviser, and composer based out of Chicago. He tours and records as a regular member of several bands and is in-demand in as a bass player for live performance and studio sessions.
His new guitar quartet employs creative methods of organizing improvisation within the aesthetics of rock and jazz fusion. Through deep listening, cooperation, and unified intent, the quartet hopes to blur the line between spontaneous and predetermined composition.
To bring these ideas to life takes ability, empathy, and experience so Young has enlisted some of Chicago's finest for the job. Featuring Luke Polipnick and Dave Miller on guitars, and Jacob Fawcett on drums. Andrew Scott Young is a bassist, improviser, and composer based out of Chicago. He tours and records as a regular member of several bands and is in-demand in as a bass player for live performance and studio sessions.
His new guitar quartet employs creative methods of organizing improvisation within the aesthetics of rock and jazz fusion. Through deep listening, cooperation, and unified intent, the quartet hopes to blur the line between spontaneous and predetermined composition.
To bring these ideas to life takes ability, empathy, and experience so Young has enlisted some of Chicago's finest for the job. Featuring Luke Polipnick and Dave Miller on guitars, and Jacob Fawcett on drums.
Alexander Adams:
Resumer / Uniter, Nancy Bigfoot, Galaxxu, Avant-Garde A Clue Japan ensemble. a l w a y s m o v i n g
Bob Bucko Jr.:
Multi-instrumentalist/improviser/tinkerer/traveler Bob Bucko, Jr. resides and records in Iowa, and tours pretty much everywhere else. He has released dozens of tapes, LPs, and CDs under his own name and as BBJr, and regularly collaborates with other artists across genres in various ad hoc groups. He is a member of synth-pop group Arc Numbers, doom/drone/gaze unit New Standards Men, angular improvisers Resumer/Uniter, spiritual electronics duo Sex Funeral, & punk home tapers/punk legends SLW cc Watt, among others. He also operates the Personal Archives label and co-owns Ruix Records, in Dubuque, Iowa.
Seth Andrew Davis:
Seth Andrew Davis is a performer, composer, improviser, technologist, scholar and educator from the Kansas City area. Davis is involved in the improvised music/free improvisation, experimental, and electronic music scenes in Kansas City. Davis’ music runs the gamut of compositions for orchestral and chamber ensembles, performances with free-jazz/free improvised music ensembles and large groups, solo performance, collaborations with dancers and video artists, and the design and collaboration of autonomous and interactive artificial life agents and 3D environments. In 2020, Davis co-founded Mother Brain Records with saxophonist & composer Michael Eaton. Mother Brain Records is a Midwest based label focused on releasing the works of artists in the experimental & improvised music scenes. In 2021, Davis co-founded EMAS (Extemporaneous Music & Arts Society) along with Evan Verploegh. EMAS is an improvised music & arts collective based in Kansas City that is dedicated to advancing creative work in Kansas City. Davis currently is an adjunct instructor at the University of Central Missouri teaching Applied Music Technology and at the Kansas City Art Institute teaching music technology courses.
Will Yager:
Will Yager is a double bassist committed to experimental music, improvisation, and collaborating with other artists in the creation of new solo and chamber repertoire for the double bass. He is a founding member of both LIGAMENT, a duo with soprano Anika Kildegaard, and the experimental trio Wombat with Justin Comer and Carlos Cotallo Solares. Recent performance highlights include appearances at the Big Ears Festival, International Society of Bassists Convention, High Zero Festival, Omaha Under the Radar, University of Iowa Center for New Music, Experimental Sound Studios’ Quarantine Concerts, and SPLICE Festival. In addition to his varied performing activities, Yager is currently on faculty at the University of Northern Iowa and spends his summers teaching at the North Carolina Governor’s School West.