Eve Essex is a composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. She performs with woodwinds and voice, accompanied by instrumental ensembles, and by electronic arrangements that use synthesizers, drum machines, live processing, and other sounds. Her work slides easily from structured electronic pop to open-ended melodic explorations and big-band arrangements. She has scored short film soundtracks, written music for installation and performance art, and explored prog, jazz, and electroacoustic ideas with groups including The Fabulous Truth, Das Audit, and a host of other collaborations.
Eve Essex, photo credit Lena Shkoda
Garrett McClure is a songwriter from the Hudson Valley in New York. With roots in Texas, his music has a country/folk style. He will be performing from his recent album "Where The Mangoes Grow" released on November 5th which includes the title song (about longing to go where the mangoes are free and the people are kind), "We Can Make It Work" (about handling adversity while camping) and "Shayna Loves Me" (a song about his cat).
Garrett McClure
Z Pinson Hopgood (b. 1998) is an interdisciplinary artist working across drawing, sculpture, woodworking, sound, and performance. Their work across mediums is a devotional practice, emerging from spiritual attunement and sensory experiences on the autism spectrum. Their assemblage-like process in all mediums unfolds as a dialog with collected materials, playing with foraged objects, Texas flora, and “noise” to conjure curiosity, solitude, and clarity. Recent works with wood explore soundsystem engineering, altars, and sigil magic. Pinson is an alumni of the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles, a staff member of Openwork Journal - an online musicology publication at Columbia University, and has presented multimedia performances in Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, Brussels, Bologna, and Dusseldorf.
Z Pinson Hopgood
A classically trained dancer, TeeDee Simons (b. 1998) explores postmodern techniques, Gaga, and Butoh, making her dance practice an evolving archive of bodily memory. Through the body’s history of acquired movement, Simons reckons with the habitual and the instinctual, in the pursuit of something purely the latter while acknowledging the necessity of the former. In this pursuit, Simons incorporates themes from her background in art history and architecture, making her work a contemporary conversation between theory and movement. Simons trained at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NOD Italia, San Francisco Lines Ballet, San Francisco Conservatory, and the Boston Conservatory. She has performed at the Joyce Theater, Jack Crystal Theater, Arts on Site New York, Austin Dance Festival, Corpo Mobile Festival, and more throughout New York, Texas, and Europe.
TeeDee Simons
Andrew Weathers (1988) is a composer, improviser, and intermedia artist based in the Front Range region of Colorado. His work is equally concerned with the disjunction of duration and place, as well as improvisation’s prospect as a vessel of discovery and collective practice. His projects and performances span the idioms of field recording, prepared guitar, surrealist soundscape, and minimalist composition rooted in repetition and drone. Apart from his longtime commitment to collaboration alongside a wide swath of figures inhabiting the sonic underground, Weathers was also founder and operator of Full Spectrum Records. Founded in his home state of North Carolina in 2008, the label released the works of sundry sound artists and experimental musicians, eventually moving its operations to the Llano Estacado region of northwestern Texas before reaching a conscious conclusion in 2024. On top of frequent credits as a mixing and mastering engineer, he has also produced various projects for Other Minds Records and Rural Situationism.
Andrew Weathers, photo credit Marianna Davison