Luisa Muhr/Daniel Carter/Jessica Pavone in Trialogue

Luisa Muhr: voice
Daniel Carter: horns and flute
Jessica Pavone: viola

This program features the first collaboration and musical trialogue of improvisers Luisa Muhr, Daniel Carter and Jessica Pavone. The trio will invite you to witness the magic of real-time musical creation and experience new realms of sound in space by crafting an evening of improvisational synergy. As these three boundary-pushing artists converge in the intimate setting of Zürcher Gallery, they will ignite a musical conversation that paves the way for a truly transformative sonic experience.

Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Admission is $20. (CASH ONLY)
All proceeds go to the artists.

At Zürcher Gallery
33 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012

Luisa Muhr is an Austrian, New York based interdisciplinary art-maker and vocalist, focusing on experimental vocal and movement art. Her range includes her capacity as a performer, improvisor, installation artist, sound artist, composer, and experimental theater maker. Her creations range from interdisciplinary installation performance works, experimental and music theater pieces, improvised music and movement, graphic scores and compositions, to video works, and opera. Muhr is a part of the septet PlayField (with Daniel Carter), as well as the audio-visual collective Dilate Ensemble. She is also a certified Deep Listening® practitioner after Pauline Oliveros. Muhr’s debut solo album teuflin/she-devil will be released on the Austrian label Boomslang in early 2024. Residencies include Pioneer Works, Sounds of Freedom Improvisor Residency (Italy), Montalvo Arts Center and CounterPulse (with Carole Kim and Dilate Ensemble), and Pocantico Rockefeller Estate (with Arturo O'Farrill). Commissions include Roulette Intermedium (2021) and the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC (2017, 2020). Collaborations include Daniel Carter, Tania Chen, Kenneth Goldsmith, Shelley Hirsch, Carole Kim, Arturo O’Farrill, William Parker, John Zorn, and through Constellation Chor: Claire Chase, Sarah Hennies, Ashley Fure, William Brittelle, and the New York Philharmonic.

Daniel Carter is an experimental multi-instrumentalist and writer, a veteran of the free improvisation/avant-garde jazz scene, and is revered for his virtuosic mastery of multiple instruments, including saxophone, flute, and trumpet. Since coming to New York City, in 1970, he has sought out musicians and situations that encourage free expression and always tried to transcend genre-boundaries. He has appeared on hundreds of recordings with an astonishing variety of players. In 1972, he made his first recorded appearance with Gunter Hampel the album Angel. His ongoing collaborative relationship with bassist William Parker began with 1980's Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace. They co-founded Other Dimensions in Music, who issued five albums between 1989 and 2011. Carter co-founded the experimental quartet Test, whose Ahead! appeared in 1998. He issued 2018's acclaimed Seraphic Light with Parker and pianist Matthew Shipp. Carter has performed, recorded, and/or toured, with too many artists to name through the decades, since the mid 60s, but, amongst many others, here are a few more: Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Yoko Ono, Don Cherry, Butch Morris, Anne Waldman, Vernon Reid, Thurston Moore, Karl Berger, Esperanza Spalding, and the Music Ensemble.

As both an instrumentalist and composer, Jessica Pavone explores the tactile and sensorial experience of music as a vibration-based medium. Pavone has been a composer in residence at Loghaven, Stove Works, the Ragdale Foundation, Ucross Foundation, and Soaring Gardens. She has received grants and commissions from the NYFA NYC Womens Fund (2023), MATA Festival (2023), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2021), Queens Council on the Arts (2022, 2020), New Music USA (2015), the Tri-Centric Foundation (2015), Experiments in Opera (2013), and the Jerome Foundation (2011). Her works have premiered in NYC venues, including Roulette, the Noguchi Museum, Pioneer Works, ISSUE Project Room, Abrons Art Center, the Museum of Art and Design, the Socrates Sculpture Park, and The Kitchen. Her albums have been produced by Tzadik, Taiga Records, Thirsty Ear, Astral Spirits, Out of Your Head, and Relative Pitch Records, and she has released four collaborative duo recordings with guitarist Mary Halvorson. From 2005 to 2012, Pavone toured regularly with Anthony Braxton’s Sextet and 12+1tet, and she appears on his discography from that time.