Hedra Rowan and Nick Meryhew’s Tallulah Bankheist performs improvisations on one EWI. Tommy Carroll leads a new ensemble.

8:30 pm: Tallulah Bankheist
9:30 pm: Tommy Carroll

Tallulah Bankheist is the computer music duo of Hedra Rowan and Nick Meryhew. Their music is fully improvised, and embraces the unpredictability and weirdness of technology pushed to unlikely limits. It’s usually chaotic, often funny, and sometimes bad (in a good way). They have released music on Bodymilk Tapes and Cry Like Donna, and have performed around the US.

For this performance, Tallulah Bankheist will debut a new approach– both performers playing one EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument) (Especially Wonderful Isn’t it).

Tommy Carroll is a Chicago-based drummer and composer working primarily in the areas of modern jazz, folkloric percussion and electro acoustic improvisation. He showcases his jazz compositions with the Tommy Carroll Quartet and explores groove-based improvisation with Prosthetic, an evolving group that features a combination of electronic and acoustic instruments. Tommy has released six albums as a leader and performed on more than 30 recordings as a collaborator in styles ranging from Puerto Rican folk to indie rock to hip hop. Described by the Chicago Reader as a workhorse drummer, Tommy can be found performing all around the city and the Midwest. As a totally blind musician, Tommy strives to promote the ingenuity of disability culture and joy of improvisation in all he does.

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door