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SUMMARY:June 2026 Frequency Fridays
DESCRIPTION:On the evening of Friday\, June 5th\, we are thrilled and delighted to feature experimental electronic musician Alex Ruiz’ solo project Carnal Ex (MX)\, experimental electronic musician Bubba Fontaine (IND)\, improvisational musician Devin Sherman (PGH)\, and improvisational musician Gerard Cox (CMH). Doors 7:30pm\, show begins at 8:00pm sharp. $10.00 prepaid\, $15 at the door. \nSupporters of our 2025-2026 season include the Greater Columbus Arts Council\, the Ohio Arts Council\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Columbus Foundation. \nAbout the artists: \nCarnal Ex is an electronic musician and visual artist from Mexico City. His work explores the integration of emerging technologies in multimodal interfaces between sound and image\, creating indeterminate audiovisual systems that emphasize deep listening.  \nBubba Fontaine is an American experimental songwriter\, composer\, guitarist\, multimedia artist\, and maker from Indianapolis\, Indiana. His music is eclectic and sometimes\, deliberately\, a little bizarre. No single musical genre encapsulates the entire Fontaine catalog. Fontaine’s aural creations have been described or labeled as all of the following: experimental\, progressive fusion\, rock\, Avant-Garde chamber\, and ambient electronic music. The Fontaine musical ensemble changes frequently and is designed to shape-shift depending on the musical direction and requirements. More recent ensembles have included members of the Straight Up Chumps\, the Max Allen Band\, Lynzi Stringer\, Tracksuit Lyfestyle\, Ultravolt\, and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra\, among others. Mixing and combining sounds and textures from various talented musicians from around the globe is the backbone of Bubba Fontaine. \n‘Devin’s mostly not blue’ is the stage name of Devin Sherman – a classically-trained guitarist turned improvising musician in the indie-jazz/experimental vein with flavors of funk\, folk\, and alternative music sprinkled in. His introspective\, tone-painting approach draws listeners in to examine the colors\, textures\, and stories that underly his improvisations. Some tunes sound like a musical Alexander Calder mobile and others splinter and split between jazz and bluegrass and blues. He explores forms and textures\, melodies and harmonies\, moods and vibes in real-time. He strives to capture sounds that intrigue and express real\, genuine\, human feelings. A few artist inspirations are Bill Frisell\, Julian Lage\, and Mary Halvorson. \nGerard 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.
URL:https://thefusefactory.org/event/june-2026-frequency-fridays/
LOCATION:The Old First Presbyterian Church\, 1101 Bryden Road\, Columbus\, OH\, 43205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Frequency Fridays,Performance
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SUMMARY:Fuse Fest 2026: Audiovisual Odyssey
DESCRIPTION:On the evening of Saturday\, May 30th\, we are proud to present an evening featuring collaborative performances between four projection artists and a series of live musicians\, to take place in the Old First Presbyterian Church sanctuary and social hall. Featured projection artists include CG [create good] Ryan\, Krista Faist\, Nikki Swift\, and Matt Swift; projection services provided by MuralRemix. Doors 7:30pm\, show begins at 8:00pm sharp. $10 prepaid\, $15 at the door. \nAbout the artists:  \nC.G. RYAN is a media artist and scenic designer who creates playful\, surreal imagery that she mixes in real time with live music to create vistas of inner and outer space\, layering tangibility with the imaginary. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts: New Media from CCAD\, and collaborates with musicians and directors to create transportive\, immersive experiences for audiences at live events and in theatrical productions. \nVR/AI/moving image artist Krista Faist’s physical work is largely comprised of watercolor crayon and reductive wax paintings on decorative plate glass\, as well as intricate sculptures made from found objects and junk store items. With both mediums\, she has sought to represent aesthetic over-stimulation that leads to expansiveness of imagination and wonder\, much like that experienced in childhood when one visits a candy shop. As a child\, she had a strong desire to see all colors and textures at once\, including colors never seen before. With each project\, she sets out to re-capture this feeling of simulated desire and satisfaction. She believes that this desire to satiate our hunger for wonderment with consumerist impulses is innately human\, and her aim is to bring this incongruence to light via her immersive\, audio reactive\, and VR works. \nAs individual artists and a collaborative team\, Nikki and Matt Swift have been creating various audio visual artworks for over 20 years. Their work ranges from the personal experimental documentary to  highly structuralist exploratory workflows that break the very tools used to make their creations. More recent works have focused on the political\, including the history of democracy and communication\, the exploitation of the environment\, and human memory versus technological recordings. This performance will include some of these themes pairing the two artists together to create an ephemeral unique live performance containing audio and visuals produced from various sources combining the analog and the digital. \nMURAL REMIX is a collective of digital artists that transforms spaces with beautifully designed projection experiences. Mural ReMix both creates and curates digital arts events on both intimate and monumental scales.
URL:https://thefusefactory.org/event/fuse-fest-2026-audiovisual-odyssey/
LOCATION:The Old First Presbyterian Church\, 1101 Bryden Road\, Columbus\, OH\, 43205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fuse Fest 2026,Performance
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SUMMARY:Fuse Fest 2026: Cassette Culture Celebration
DESCRIPTION:We are excited and proud to host our Fuse Fest: Cassette Culture Celebration on the afternoon and evening of Saturday\, May 23rd from 12 noon to 8:00pm at the Old First Presbyterian Church (1101 Bryden Rd 43205). The festival will include a show featuring performances by experimental musician Dan Burke’s project (ORD) Illusion of Safety\, electronic experimental musician David Reed’s solo project Envenomist (CMH)\, electronic experimental musician Jeff Chenault’s solo project Central Inhabitants (CMH)\, Joshua Rogers’ solo project Black Wick (FL)\, and electronic experimental musician Andy Izold’s solo project Full Load of King (CLE). In addition to performances\, the fest will include lectures by Jerry Kranitz (author of Cassette Culture) and Jeff Chenault (The Electronic Music History of Columbus)\, a film screening of William Davenport’s The Great American Cassette Masters\, as well as a variety of vendors.  \nAbout the performers: \nSince 1983\, Illusion Of Safety has been the ongoing project of Daniel Burke working alone and with various collaborators. They have released over 20 CDs on labels such as Complacency\, Die Stadt\, Experimedia\, Odd Size\, Silent\, Soleilmoon\, Staalplaat\, Tesco\, and Waystyx\, and played over three hundred concerts in Europe and North America. IOS’ work has been called ambient\, post-industrial\, electro-acoustic\, noise\, sound collage\, improvisation\, and power electronics\, but they are unwilling to limit their work to any given style or method. The sonic character and affective substance of the music will often shift abruptly within each recording and live performance. Daniel Burke is currently working with conventional instruments\, electronic synthesis\, computer composition\, samples\, and highly amplified handled objects. He uses improvised and composed structures containing material that confounds memory and stimulates perception. The resulting music encompasses broken sound\, disturbed ambience and unfiltered beauty that collectively evokes an awareness of the ineffable. \nJoshua Rogers’ project Black Wick utilizes found sounds and cassette to cassette manipulation/layering\, creating lo-fi analog effects.  \nSome people equate David Reed’s solo project Envenomist (CMH) with science fiction film scores; others envision solitary nocturnal travels through bleak urban settings. A fundamental strength of Envenomist is that these illusory backdrops remain open to interpretation. Taking inspiration from industrial\, ambient\, and the kosmische scenes along with altered states of consciousness\, the oceanic abyss\, and deep space\, Reed has been producing desolate soundscapes under the Envenomist moniker since 2005. \nJeff (Central) Chenault aka/Central Inhabitants has been involved in the Columbus electronic music scene since 1983. Jeff’s current audio projects include Skull Vacuum with Chris Phinney and Hal McGee\, Fire Tone with Michael Thomas Jackson\, Tactical Perversions with Matthew Soko\, and Circuitry Room with former 10-Speed band mate Andy Izold along with longtime friend and collaborator Dan Rockwell. He is also working with French theremin player Jimmy Virani and percussionist extraordinaire Dave Cohen as The Escargonauts. \nFull Load of King (FLOK) is the solo project of Andrew Izold. He resides in Akron\, Ohio.  \nAbout the lecturers: \nJerry Kranitz is a freelance writer and the author of Cassette Culture: Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet Age and Putt-Putt Abuse: And Other Zany Tales of Growing Up in 1970s Kenmore\, New York. For 18 years he published the Aural Innovations Space Rock webzine and podcast.
URL:https://thefusefactory.org/event/cassette-culture-fest/
LOCATION:The Old First Presbyterian Church\, 1101 Bryden Road\, Columbus\, OH\, 43205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open House,Performance
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SUMMARY:Fuse Fest 2026: Sound and Vision
DESCRIPTION:On the evening of Friday\, May 22nd\, we are delighted to feature an unrehearsed\, in-the-moment collaboration between multi-instrumentalist artists Aimee Lee (CMH) and Chris Weldon (CMH). This collaboration blends live improvised musical performance with projected animated clips of Chris’ paintings. Doors 7:30pm\, show begins at 8:00pm sharp. $10 prepaid\, $15 at the door. \nAbout the artists:  \nAimee Lee is a multi-instrumentalist and visual projection artist from Columbus\, OH. She has been a multimedia artist\, sound engineer\, composer\, and performer with multiple artists and bands for over 40 years. Currently\, she plays a combination of synthesizers\, loopers\, and effects pedals to create psychedelic and experimental soundscapes. \nChris Weldon has been engaging in creative endeavors for you to see\, hear\, taste and recall for several decades.
URL:https://thefusefactory.org/event/fuse-fest-2026-sound-and-vision/
LOCATION:The Old First Presbyterian Church\, 1101 Bryden Road\, Columbus\, OH\, 43205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Fuse Fest 2026,Performance
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