Calendar

Feb. 1, 7:30 p.m.
Willful Devices: HDPHN

Feb. 8, 7 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: Laura Caviani Trio

Feb. 18, 7 p.m.
Heartland Marimba Quartet

March 6-8
Zeitgeist: Playing it Close to Home

March 28, 7 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: Joan Hutton & Sue Orfield’s Take That

April 11, 7 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: JT Bates’ Grain Trio + Aby Wolf

April 16-19
Zeitgeist Early Music Festival: Frederic Rzewski

April 25, 7 p.m.
Metro Blend: Twin Cities Composer Commissions, presented by Sprig of That

May 9, 7 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: Chris Bates’ Red 5

May 27-31
113 Collective: Twin Cities New Music Festival

June 9
Heartland Marimba Ensemble

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PAST EVENTS

May 28, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Janika Vandervelde

June 14, 7:30 p.m.
Musical Ecology: More Trees, and Rivers

June 17, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

June 18, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Mary Ellen Childs

June 20-21
Twin Cities Jazz Festival

June 28, 6 p.m.
Scott L. Miller: Ecosystemic Music for Kyma

June 29, 7 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: 2018-2019 Season Finale

July 3, 8 p.m.
The All Originals Jazz Series: Will Kjeer Trio

July 10, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

July 19, 7:30 p.m.
George Cartwright's Smashing Carp

Aug. 1, 8 p.m.
The All Originals Jazz Series: The illicit Sextet

Aug. 8, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Zeitgeist-Composer Workshop 2019

Aug. 11, 3 p.m.
Caprice Saxophone Quartet: Mountain Roads

Aug. 15, 8 p.m.
The All Originals Jazz Series: LifeForce

Aug. 16, 7 p.m.
Liz Pearse: An evening at the salon

Aug. 20, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Sept. 5, 8 p.m.
The All Originals Jazz Series: Triocracy & JC Sanford Quartet

Sept. 17, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Janika Vandervelde on The Gates of Horn & Ivory

Sept. 18, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Sept. 19, 8 p.m.
The All Originals Jazz Series: Ted Olsen Group

Sept. 20-22
Here & There: Zeitgeist & No Exit Ensemble

Sept. 27-29
Zeitgeist: The Gates of Horn and Ivory

Oct. 2, 6:30 p.m.
Denim Liscio Pop-up Show-up

Oct. 3, 8 p.m.
The All Originals Jazz Series: Chris Bates Red 5

Oct. 10, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Andrea Mazzariello with Matthew McCright & Michael Mizrahi

Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m.
Dean Magraw and Steven Hobert

Oct. 12, 7 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: Chris Lomheim Trio

Oct. 13, 4:30 p.m.
Chris Granias: Kalo Taxidi III

Oct. 14, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m.
113 Collective presents ACUTE Trio

Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m.
Jonathan Posthuma presents Paul Klee: Painted Songs

Oct. 24, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Hub New Music

Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Spitting Image Collective presents Hub New Music

Oct. 31-Nov. 3
Zeitgeist Halloween Festival 2019

Nov. 8 & 10
Allen Otte & John Lane: The Innocents

Nov. 13, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Nov. 15, 7 p.m.
Alex Hecker & Riley Leitch

Nov. 16, 7 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: Zacc Harris Group

Nov. 17, 3 p.m.
Richard Tostenson: Some Yet Distant Stars

Nov. 19, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Randy Bauer

Nov. 22, 7 p.m.
Life is a Cabaret... celebrating Blake Brauer

Nov. 24, 2 p.m.
Rimon Artist Salon: Looking for God in Drag

Dec. 6, 7 p.m.
Nicholas Phillips: #45miniatures

Dec. 9, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Dec. 12, 7 p.m.
PMDRecords Launch Party

Dec. 14, 7 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: Davu Seru’s Motherless Dollar Quartet

Dec. 26-28
Our Own Festival

Jan. 4, 7 p.m.
When Morty Met John: Where are we going?

Jan. 7, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Scott L. Miller & Joyce Sutphen

Jan. 11-12
Zeitgeist & Scott L. Miller: The Blue in the Distance

Jan. 18, 7 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: Atlantis Quartet

Jan. 21, 7 p.m.
CZ Duo

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WILLFUL DEVICES
HDPHN

Feb. 1  •  7:30 p.m.  •  ​​Free (bring headphones)​  •  Details

HDPHN presents the audience with a new way to experience live electro-acoustic music performance. Similar to the “silent disco,” HDPHN imagines a shared audience experience dependent on the use of a technology, headphones, which is usually regarded as isolating. The music is performed live, but instead of being amplified through a set of speakers in the room, all sounds (both acoustic and electric) are delivered to the audience via headphones. Processed sound is also returned to the clarinet via analog ‘talk box,’ which is piped through the clarinet to be filtered by the instrument and amplified by the microphones, creating a feedback loop that is further manipulated by Pat on the clarinet. The use of headphones allows for a live concert of music that involves sounds that are often impossible to hear without amplification, and also for an extremely precise presentation of sound moving in space. Typically in concerts involving electronic and amplified sound there are a limited number of seats in the sweet-spot, but going straight to headphones eliminates that obstacle, and creates an egalitarian and ideal listening experience for each member of the audience.

HDPHN was created and is performed by Willful Devices: Pat O'Keefe (bass clarinet, Bb clarinet) and Scott L. Miller (Kyma, Keyboard). It was developed while in residence at Sparta Sound, a ‘Rock ‘n Roll Bed and Breakfast’ up on the Iron Range of Minnesota, owned and run by musician and studio engineer, Rich Mattson. The residency was funded by the McKnight Foundation, in support of Miller’s 2018 McKnight Composer Fellowship.

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