Ross Wightman is a New Haven based sound artist from New Jersey whose work incorporates microtonality, electro-acoustic multimedia composition and instrument building. He repurposes and deconstructs found instruments, augmenting them with 3D printing, robotics, and artificial intelligence to compose works that investigate themes related to performance practice, virtuosity, timbre and resonance.

For this event, Ross will be performing his new invention, Fiddle Henge, a robotically controlled array of four violins mounted on a 24” bass drum that is played by a motorized acrylic disk. Inspired by the mechanical musical instruments and automata from the turn of the 20th century that were forced into obsolescence by the invention of phonographs and recorded music, Fiddle Henge serves as a medium to conjure rhythmically dense mechanical textures and microtonal sonorities that flicker between harsh noise and spectrally lush drone.

Kallie Lampel is an ambient artist based in Kingston, NY. By constructing swimming musical environments out of layers of loops both in and out of sync, he blurs the lines between melody, rhythm, and texture. Using primarily antiquated sound sources, Kallie constructs new dreams out of old dreams in an effort to marry the seemingly disconnected worlds of the past and present. 

Webb Crawford is a guitarist and instrument-builder. They like playing free-improvised music, Piedmont-style fingerpicking, and percussive/noisy stuff. They have built stringed instruments ranging from electric guitars, basses and mandolins to modern reconstructions of historical instruments and instruments made from recycled materials or found objects.