Brandon Lopez/T.J. Borden/James McKain/Joey Sullivan & Madison Greenstone

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Brandon Lopez, T.J. Borden, James McKain & Joey Sullivan 4tet:

New York-based composer and bassist working at the fringes of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. His music has been praised as “brutal” (Chicago Reader) and “relentless” (The New York Times).

From the New York Philharmonic’s David Geffen Hall to the DIY basements of Brooklyn, Lopez has worked beside many luminaries of jazz, classical, poetry, and experimental music, including Fred Moten, John Zorn, Okkyung Lee, Ingrid Laubrock, Tony Malaby, Tyshawn Sorey, Bill Nace, Chris Potter, Edwin Torres, Tom Rainey, Cecilia Lopez, Sun Ra Arkestra, Susan Alcorn, Mette Rasmussen, and many others.

Brandon was a 2019–2020 Artist in Residence at Roulette, a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room and 2018 Van Lier Fellow at Roulette Intermedium, Recent highlight performances include opening the 2018–2019 season of the New York Philharmonic as a featured soloist in Ashley Fure’s “Filament” and a number of works with John Zorn, including Zorn’s 35th anniversary of “Cobra”.

“T.J. Borden is a multifaceted sound shaper, noise maker, collaborator and community organizer. As an interpreter, he brings his technical brilliance to his cello playing by working closely with composers in solo works and in group formations like the [Switch Ensemble~] and the Mivos Quartet. As an improviser, he can be found piling into a shitty car with his bandmates and touring across the country to play in broom closet sized venues and sleeping on strangers’ floors. As an organizer, he can be seen putting together shows for experimental artists, most notably co-founding High Desert Soundings, a multi-day festival located in the desert of Southern California’s Wonder Valley.” –Michelle Lou

Blurring the line between the avant virtuosity of the downtown scene and the dank scuzz of the midwest basement skronk, James McKain pushes the limits of his saxophone as a tool for discovery, yielding a cornucopia of auditory textures, from guttural gurgles and psycho jazz slosh and slurps, to polyphonic overtones and queasy microtonal explorations of the altissimo-range.

Joey Sullivan is active in both setting up some very successful free music showings as well as playing with an array of east coast improvisers. Playing drums in out music groups like Violet Salon III with James McKain and Jared Radichel as well as playing in active alt-folk groups like Florry.

Madison Greenstone:

Madison Greenstone is a clarinetist based in New York City. They have performed as a featured artist of the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik and the Lucerne Festival Academy. Notable performances have been as a soloist presented by ISSUE Project Room, as part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial Night of 100 Solos in Los Angeles, in recital at the Vigeland Mausoleum (Oslo) and at the Fondation Abbaye Royaumont. Madison is the clarinetist of TAK Ensemble, a founding member of the [Switch~ Ensemble], and has performed as a guest with Alarm Will Sound, Either/Or, and Argento New Music Project. They can be heard on Wandelweiser Editions, Another Timbre, TAK Editions, Unknown Tapes, eë editions (AT), Impakt Collective (DE), and upcoming on Relative Pitch Records.

Madison is a doctoral candidate at UC San Diego, where they learn greatly from the mentorship of Anthony Burr and Charles Curtis. They hold a Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music where they studied with Kenneth Grant and Jon Manasse. Since 2012 they have pursued periodic studies with Ernesto Molinari within the framework of different festivals and masterclasses.

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