Duffy x Uhlmann (Perfume Genius/Hand Habits)
Blurring the limits between speed and slowness, Meg Duffy (guitar) and Greg Uhlmann (guitar) communicate in velocities, underwriting each other’s peaks and flurries as they ache toward a mutual horizon. These one-take improvisations, recorded in Uhlmann’s brothers’ house on a borrowed tape recorder, unfold like a game of truth or dare. Their constant motif is an unceasing return, a steady heartbeat they mutually commit to, knowing when one wanders off, the other will either follow or call them home. Here, flushness overrides order, each note saunters by like initials etched into tree bark: a devotion both passing and eternal.
After playing in Perfume Genius and Hand Habits, Duffy and Uhlmann embarked on their first record together, Doubles. A testament to the wordlessness of their musical intimacy, Duffy and Uhlmann take up the guitar in order to make an imprint of the slowness and presence of their improvisational practice. They weave together a sonic meditation, embracing intuition and relying on trust.
with support from Cole Pulice
Cole Pulice is a composer, improviser, and saxophonist from Minneapolis, Minnesota who is currently based in Oakland, California. Debuting on Moon Glyph Records with their album Gloam in 2020, Pulice’s music draws equally from the earthy vibrations of a cosmic jazz record and the bright digital synthesis of a video game soundtrack. Taking the saxophone as their instrument of choice, but working also with live signal processing and other instruments, Pulice composes, produces, and performs beautiful electroacoustic ambient music that sounds otherworldly and meditative. With releases on Orange Milk, Cached Media, and Aural Canyon, Pulice has been building a vast output of different sounds over the years; although diverse, a throughline in their work is the windy, brassy howls of their saxophone, sometimes sounding as a saxophone does, and other times manipulated and stretched into new unheard assemblages of surreal electroacoustic timbres.. Their latest release, If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You in the Pasture (2023), glimmers with lush pads punctuated with cascading saxophone wails. Previously, on their album Scry (2022), the influence of game music can be heard on its playful, hypnotic melodies.
DOORS at 7:00PM
MUSIC AT 7:30 PM