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SUMMARY:December 2026 Frequency Fridays
DESCRIPTION:On the evening of Friday\, December 4\, we are thrilled and delighted to feature modular synthesist Joe Arias’ solo project Salem Soundwaves (NY)\, experimental/jazz improv trio We Take Requests (PGH)\, web artist/composer Treya Nash (CMH)\, and a duo between experimental multi-instrumentalist/improviser Caleb Miller (CMH) and experimental electronic musician David Reed (CMH). Doors 7:30pm\, show begins at 8:00pm sharp. $10.00 prepaid\, $15 at the door. \nSupporters of our 2026-2027 season include the Greater Columbus Arts Council\, the Ohio Arts Council\, the Columbus Foundation\, and the Johnstone Fund for New Music. \nAbout the artists: \nSalem Soundwaves is a living love letter to audio hardware and experimental improvisation based in Long Island\, NY and deeply entrenched in its alternative music scene. Custom built modular synth systems live at the heart of their setup\, with an ever-morphing retinue of tape machines\, noise boxes\, and traditional instruments making appearances alongside. \nWe Take Requests is a trio comprised of Jason Belcher (electric piano / valve trombone)\, Luke Farkas (saxophones)\, and Eli Weidman (drums and percussion). \nTreya Nash is a composer and web artist. A staple of her practice is the creation of web apps designed for audience performance with cellphones. Her participatory approach extends into her acoustic music\, which invites audiences to play with physical objects. Treya is Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition at the Ohio State University.  \nThe inspiration behind the Reed/Miller duo was a mutual desire to collaborate with another musician whose sound and approach they deeply admire.  \nCaleb Miller is a musician and educator in Columbus\, OH. His work mostly focuses on eclectic-midwestern perspectives surrounding creative\, new music and projects. In addition to his personally lead projects (Gault\, pincer\, Here Here) Caleb plays\, writes and subs in many jazz-adjacent projects (Favorite Daughter\, Yumbambe\, Troy Kunkler 4tet)\, songs-oriented groups (Zack Kouns and His Insatiable Orchestra\, Carr and Company\, Confusions\, Francis Bacon Band)\, contemporary classical settings (dance accompanist\, classical pianist) and other settings (Taylor K Conrad\, solo work\, Sun Trash\, audio work\, VMR\, music videos\, album artwork). As output he is most interested in productions that show a true synthesis of perspectives\, sounds\, individuals and communities. Music and projects that strive for some form of “newness” regardless of the setting\, people or situation. Caleb also currently operates the Columbus-based recording label Very Much Recordings and teaches in the American public (!) school system. \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.
URL:https://thefusefactory.org/event/december-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:November 2026 Frequency Fridays
DESCRIPTION:On the evening of Friday\, November 6\, we are thrilled and delighted to feature hybrid media artist Paul Catanese (ORD)\, collaborative sound/Butoh performance group MouseVision (CLE)\, experimental electronic musician Mkl Anderson’s solo project DREKKA (IND)\, and experimental musician/percussionist Jake Kundu (CMH). Doors 7:30pm\, show begins at 8:00pm sharp. $10.00 prepaid\, $15 at the door. \nSupporters of our 2026-2027 season include the Greater Columbus Arts Council\, the Ohio Arts Council\, the Columbus Foundation\, and the Johnstone Fund for New Music. \nAbout the artists: \nPaul Catanese is a hybrid media artist whose work spans installation\, performance\, sound\, experimental opera\, projection\, net.art\, and printmaking. While long working with modular synthesis as a studio tool\, his recent performance practice extends these processes into live contexts with modular systems\, tape-based media\, and voice. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art\, Chicago Cultural Center\, New Museum of Contemporary Art\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art. \nMouseVision is a collaborative movement/sound collective\, informed by Butoh\, Deep Listening practices\, improvisation\, and a radical present tense. MouseVision consists of Laura Swedenborg (Butoh dance)\, Kristen Ban Drake (Butoh\, sound)\, and bbob drake (sound). \nDREKKA is the solo project of experimental composer\, producer\, and audio archivist Mkl Anderson\, who has been performing and recording under this moniker 1996. Based in Bloomington\, Indiana\, his work spans dark ambient\, drone\, industrial\, and “bedroom noise folk”. He utilizes a massive personal archive of cassette tapes\, field recordings\, and found audio dating back to the mid-1980s. \nJake Kundu is an American classical percussionist dedicated to advancing contemporary percussion literature and chamber music. An active soloist and ensemble performer\, Kundu has been featured at prominent contemporary music festivals\, including the So Percussion Summer Institute\, where he performed in large-scale outdoor installations like Field of Vision at PS21 Chatham. He was also named an alternate in the highly competitive Collegiate/Open Solo Category of the Great Plains Marimba Competition. Kundu holds a Master of Music in Classical Performance from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance from Capital University. His performance repertoire spans a diverse array of modern solo works\, including performances of J.P. Sathas’s Koolish Zein: Her Alchemy at the UNT American Percussion Seminar.
URL:https://thefusefactory.org/event/november-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:October 2026 Frequency Fridays
DESCRIPTION:On the evening of Friday\, October 2\, we are thrilled and delighted to feature saxophonist/composer Caroline Davis (NYC)\, experimental musician/mixed-media artist Christa Ebert’s solo project Uno Lady (CLE)\, experimental electronic musician Adam Crawley’s solo project crawlinggiants (IND)\, and electronic musician/modular synthesist Eden Grey (CMH) w/visuals by ElectronFlow (CMH). Doors 7:30pm\, show begins at 8:00pm sharp. $10.00 prepaid\, $15 at the door. \nSupporters of our 2026-2027 season include the Greater Columbus Arts Council\, the Ohio Arts Council\, the Columbus Foundation\, and the Johnstone Fund for New Music. \nAbout the artists: \nCaroline Davis is a Brooklyn-based saxophonist\, composer\, and activist\, whose work is driven by a desire for connection and a belief in music’s capacity to expand listeners’ ears\, minds\, and hearts. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Composition\, she is the recipient of the DownBeat Critics Poll Alto Saxophone Rising Star Award\, as well as fellowships from NYFA\, the Jerome Foundation\, Chamber Music America\, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her residencies include MacDowell\, The Jazz Gallery\, Civitella\, and the Rockefeller Estate\, and she has served as a mentor for New Music USA’s Next Jazz Legacy program. \nDavis’s work spans a wide range of creative contexts\, rooted in improvisation and social inquiry. She has released eight albums as a leader and collaborated with artists such as Allison Miller\, Lee Konitz\, John Zorn\, Angelica Sanchez\, The Femme Jam\, Miles Okazaki\, Nicole Mitchell\, Rajna Swaminathan\, and Matt Mitchell. Her most recent release\, Portals\, explores themes of grief and memory\, and she is also a contributor to Terri Lyne Carrington’s New Standards\, a landmark collection of jazz compositions by female-identifying composers. \nIn addition to her work as a performer and composer\, Davis is a dedicated educator\, teaching courses on gender in jazz at The New School and maintaining a private studio at the Manhattan School of Music. Her artistic practice is deeply intertwined with advocacy\, including work for gender equity through This Is A Movement\, and for current and formerly incarcerated individuals through initiatives such as Justice for Keith LaMar\, Freer Records\, Keys Beats Bars\, and Creative Beyond Incarceration. \nCaroline Davis’ solo performances are chosen spontaneously\, given the atmosphere of the room and the people present. She explores sonic textures offered by interactive technologies\, sharing sounds from the saxophone that she considers to be distinctive and quirky. She makes use of Pure Data patches developed by the open source community surrounding the Organelle (the technobear\, shreeswifty\, critterandguitari\, tony j morton\, nobuyasu sakonda\, soxsa\, varicela\, nicky-system\, samesimilar\, and chrisk). The music during this performance will pull from Caroline’s recent solo album\, Fallows\, created during a time of rest on land in Ucross Wyoming. bell hooks was a constant source of inspiration during this time\, through the following ideas: love as a practice of freedom\, radical openness\, maintenance of commitment\, using community as a means of escape\, belief in one’s capacity to transform\, what it means to listen\, and eliminating elimination. \nUno Lady is the musical persona of Cleveland\, Ohio-based musician and mixed-media artist Christa Ebert. She creates dream-like sonic worlds using her voice\, nature sounds\, and electronic tools. Performing as a one-woman choir\, she layers live-looped vocals and ethereal tones to create immersive compositions. Christa also creates nature-inspired stop-motion music videos that explores our connection to the natural world. Explore her releases at https://unolady.com/albums/. \nHer work has been supported by the Ohio Arts Council\, Creative Impact Fund\,  Akron Soul Train\, and numerous artist residencies and fellowships with Bloedel Reserve in Washington\, Chulitna Lodge in Alaska\, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation in Maine\, Foundation House in Connecticut\, and Chateau Orquevaux in France. \nAdam Crawley (crawlinggiants) is a composer\, performer\, dance accompanist\, educator\, and instrument builder from Muncie\, IN\, where on faculty at Ball State University in the Department of Theatre and Dance. Crawley works extensively in music for dance including the American Dance Festival and Bates Dance Festival as well as composing and performing for choreographers and improvisors in many settings. crawlinggiants is focused around but not limited to creating music with modular systems built by hand by Crawley\, who has always enjoyed building and modifying musical instruments and using any objects at hand to produce sound.  \nEden Grey\, the artistic alias of Dr. Chelsea Bruno\, is an innovative electronic musician and modular synthesist renowned for crafting immersive\, evolving sonic landscapes. Blending deep ambient textures with complex\, leftfield rhythmic structures\, her distinct sound world bridges vintage-style electronic music with modern electronica. Grounded in extensive piano training from her youth\, she went on to earn a PhD in Music Composition from the Royal Holloway\, University of London. Beyond her solo studio work and consistent album releases\, she is highly active in the synthesis community as an active author for the German publication beat.de and the organizer of CV FREQS\, an international event network for hardware synthesis enthusiasts. \nElectronFlow is a visual artist working primarily with analog video synthesis and experimental electronics. Their work explores the hidden fundamentals of electronic images\, using waveforms\, scanning signals\, and video standards as creative material. Rather than starting with a specific subject\, they let the synthesizer and the electronics guide the work; creating shifting fields of color\, texture\, and movement. They are interested not only in what these systems can produce\, but in how they work\, how they can be pushed beyond their intended use\, and how the knowledge behind them can be preserved and passed on. Their practice is an ongoing exploration of a niche but important part of electronic and visual history.
URL:https://thefusefactory.org/event/october-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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