On the evening of Friday, May 3rd, we are delighted to present electronic didgeridoo player/video artist John Hardin (CA), CG Ryan, Al DiLorenzo and Laura Feathers’ multidisciplinary collaboration COLOURS (CMH/NYC), Andrew Chadwick’s solo project Ironing (FL), and jazz improviser Gerard Cox. Doors 7:30pm, show begins at 8:00pm sharp. $9.25 prepaid, $10 at the door.
Supporters of our 2023-2024 season include the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Columbus Foundation.
About the artists:
John Hardin takes the ancient aboriginal instrument, the didgeridoo, to new places via digital technology. His music transports the listener with ethereal, otherworldly soundscapes, organic rhythms and primal dance grooves.
COLOURS is multidisciplinary collaboration with digital artist CG Ryan, musician Laura Feathers, and movement by Al Dilorenzo, dissolving the veil between vibration and form. Engaging the senses through an experimental spectrum of sight and sound, the artists interweave technology and emotion to illuminate core truths of being in the present moment.
Ironing, in existence since 2005, is the project of Andrew Chadwick, can be described as a live physical mashup collage party of vinyl, tape, radio, & microcassette.
Gerard Cox is a pianist, trumpeter, and percussionist from Columbus with a keen interest in musical surrealism and the percussive nature of the piano. Born to a piano teacher Mom and a jazz saxophone hobbyist father, clear “rockstar” inclinations were shown at age 8 in an appearance as J.S. Bach at an OMTA music festival and at 10 as Billy Idol in a look-a-like contest for the national pop/rock magazine Star Hits. Cox developed a love for jazz in high school on through college, studying both jazz piano and B3 organ. While initially taken with the straight-ahead jazz of Art Blakey and Clifford Brown, he followed John Coltrane’s discography into his later period music and this proved to be the gateway for a fascination with free jazz and all kinds of other outsider/experimental music.