Live at The Crown: Jon Mueller / Danny Paul Grody Duo / Ava Koohbor

On the evening of Thursday, November 6th, we're wildly excited to be presenting an evening of mixed media performances that encompass sound, still photography, moving images, and sculpture.
Atop the evening is ALL COLORS PRESENT, a sound and visual meditation and collaboration between the propulsive drumming of Jon Mueller and photography of Tom Lecky. Mueller's percussive experiments and endeavors are stunning in their focus and execution. I remember seeing his project Death Blues in a small bar in Milwaukee back in the day as a college student and having my mind cracked open to the possibilities of sound and performance. I'm honored to bring this current project to The Crown.
Joining Mueller is the hypnotic Danny Paul Grody Duo, featuring percusionist Rich Douthit. Their performances are like the waves of the Pacific, rolling in and out, cresting and receding in a natural rhythm. Perfectly complimenting the music will be the films of Ian Alpert.

Ava Koohbor is also blessing us with her fascinating sculture and sound experiments, hypnotizing in their noise and presence. A true exploratory artist and one of a kind.
Doors 7pm
Show 8pm
$20 at the door. sliding scale available

JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT

A sound and visual meditation

Jon Mueller’s singular performance idiom is an awe-inspiring display of elegant athleticism, preternatural focus, brute restraint, and ecstatic, monastic reverie. Paired with Tom Lecky's photographs, it becomes a deliberate focus on form, shape and detail. It requires and demands a state of inner quietude from witnesses. Yet, from this seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound.

​​An apt reference point resides within the broad, decades-spanning catalog of Table of the Elements. Like Tony Conrad’s surging Outside the Dream Syndicate, the aural and conceptual headwinds are real, but the perceived affronts of provocation are not. These works are not endurance challenges, nor are they threadbare minimalist upholstery. They are not obstacles. They are invitations. Within their simplicity and formalism await a sympathetic repose, a comfort. These are gestures of generosity.

Mueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago, and singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York. A prolific performer, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada, England, Europe and Japan.

In addition to his solo work, Mueller has collaborated and performed with groups such as Mind Over Mirrors, Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees, and Pele. He has also worked with artists including Olivia Block, Aaron Turner, Faith Coloccia, Dawn Springer, Chris Hefner, Jason Kahn, Hal Rammel, Asmus Tietchens, Z’EV, Rhys Chatham, Jarboe, James Plotkin, Duane Pitre, and Raymond Dijkstra. He has released music on renowned labels such as Table of the Elements, Type Recordings, Important Records, Taiga Records, SIGE Records, and American Dreams.

www.rhythmplex.com  IG: @jonmueller

Tom Lecky has worked in photography, music (as Hallock Hill), the book arts, prose and poetry writing, and literary criticism. His creative work concentrates on memory, place, and environment, the work of the imagination, perception, and the intersections of abstraction and representation. He often interweaves appropriated texts and images with his own, evoking a conversation with the history of book design and illustration. These creative pursuits are linked to Tom’s career as an internationally recognized expert in the field of rare and antiquarian books and manuscripts. He has worked in the auction world – notably in a 17-year run as a specialist and Head of Christie’s New York Books and Manuscripts Department – and as an advisor to collectors and institutions. He is the owner of Riverrun Books, and the founder of the rare book and manuscript appraisal and advisory firm Lecky Art Group. www.tomlecky.com 

IG: @tom.lecky

AVA KOOHBOR
Ava Koohbor, a maker of instruments and sound, works with the remnants of daily life. Junk, rusty metal, and stone. Her performances oscillate between harsh noise and hallucinatory presence.

DANNY PAUL GRODY DUO w/ Films by Ian Alpert
Danny Paul Grody is a self taught guitarist and founding member of San Francisco-based bands Tarentel and The Drift. The melodies at the core of Danny’s songwriting bring to mind his love of non-Western and traditional music, Takoma-style fingerpicking and all things minimal, repetitive and hypnotic.

His debut album “Fountain” (Root Strata, 2010) laid the foundation for a steady stream of solo and collaborative releases on labels including Students of Decay, Three Lobed Recordings, Geographic North, and Australia’s Longform Editions imprint.

On his 2023 album “Arc Of Day” Danny gathered an ensemble of musicians and gave us compositions that conjured not just bird-like flights but the supportive skeleton of a bird itself - intricate, delicate, but able to carry a body (or a listener) through bright, airy spaces. That same ensemble, since renamed the Danny Paul Grody Duo, now brings us "Arc Of Night" (2024) - a sister collection to "Arc Of Day", shaped from core collaborations between Grody and percussionist/drummer Rich Douthit along with additions on select tracks from Trevor Montgomery on electric bass and Chuck Johnson on pedal steel guitar.

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