NHIC at Firehouse12 presenting The Tricycle Trick and Conduction New Haven 2025

Schedule

Sat, 20 Dec, 2025 at 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Firehouse 12 | New Haven, CT

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The New Haven Improvisers Collective returns to Firehouse12, the world-renowned performance space, recording studio, New Haven treasure, and landmark in Creative Music.
NHIC presents The Tricycle Trick and Conduction 2025 on Saturday December 20, 2025, starting at 8:30pm
The New Haven Improvisers Collective celebrates the 20th anniversary of the first NHIC performance at the recently opened Firehouse 12. In 2005, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris led the New Haven Improvisers collective for two sold out shows of new music based on his trademark Conduction system. It helped launch NHIC and Firehouse12 into the New Haven institutions they are today.

Tickets $20
https://firehouse12.com/special-events/2025/12/20/nhic
Conduction ** New Haven 2025
Bob Gorry will lead this new group of CT music luminaries, featuring a few from the original performance. Musicians include Stephen Haynes, Jeff Cedrone, Brian Slattery, Diane Buettner, Michael Larocca, Dan O’Brien, and Brett Bottomley, Vance Provey, and Chris Morrison. https://www.conduction.us/

The Tricycle Trick opens the evening, offering compelling new music with Soundribbons electronic processed bass, guitar, and drums. It features Knox Chandler (Psychedelic Furs, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Golden Palominos, Cyndi Lauper), Bob Gorry (Roundhouse Quartet, GoBruCcio, Truth Ensemble) and Peter Riccio (Sawtelles, GoBruCcio, Void Kittens).
Knox Chandler’s career has spanned over four decades, including long stints as a member of The Psychedelic Furs, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and the Cyndi Lauper band, as well as extraordinary experiences in recording and performing live around the world on guitar, bass, and cello. Knox spent a decade residing in Berlin, Germany, while he explored sound-scaping. He developed a technique he calls “Soundribbons”, which he recorded and performed in its own right as well as applying it to different genres and mediums. He composed, recorded, toured, produced, and wrote string arrangements for Herbert Grönemeyer, Jesper Munk, Pure Reason Revolution, The Still, TAU, Miss Kenichi and the Sun, Mars William’s Albert Ayler Xmas, Rita Redshoes, Them There, The Night, etc.
Bob Gorry is a guitarist/composer/bandleader living in and working out of New Haven, CT where he curates the NHIC New Music series and leads the New Haven Improvisers Collective, a group he founded that is now celebrating 20 years. Other current working bands include GoBruCcio, The Light Upon Blight Ensemble, RHINOCH, and The Roundhouse Quartet. He has performed and recorded with Joe Morris, Stephen Haynes, Butch Morris, Vance Provey, Allen Lowe, Greg Bendian, Albee Balgochian, Adam Matlock, Brett Bottomley, Michael Larocca, and many more.
Peter Riccio acquired his first set of drums at the age of eight and has been involved in a constant stream of diverse performing groups and configurations ever since (indie rock, punk, jazz, new music, etc). He studied jazz drums at Berklee College of Music along the way. He has played in punk, indie rock, and jazz groups. Peter also plays rhythm guitar, sings, and writes songs for the Sawtelles and plays drums with Lys Guillorn’s Void Kittens.


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The New Haven Improvisers Collective is in its twenty-first year and remains one of the focal points of a thriving improvised and experimental music scene here in New Haven, CT. The Collective now numbers more than 50 members and has been featured in the New York Times along with several local publications and radio outlets. NHIC is dedicated to creating and presenting cutting-edge music, building a community of musicians and listeners passionate about the spontaneous and creative process of music making. It has been another great year for live creative music in New Haven and NHIC celebrates this wonderful year with their annual showcase. NHIC continues to hold free monthly workshops, sponsors performances of various combinations of NHIC members and hosts visiting jazz and new music ensembles.

It's a great time to be playing and listening to this music in
New Haven, truly another golden age.

Please see www.nhic-music.org for more information and checkout the ever growing members’ page to see all of the local, national and international musicians based in the New Haven area who count themselves as members.


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