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Auricle New Music Series welcomes Matt Blair with Jon Mueller and Ro Lundberg on Friday, October 16, 2026 at 7:00pm. Doors open 6:30pm. Admission is free, but please RSVP.Matt Blair is a pianist, composer, and educator who recently returned to Madison, WI. His work draws upon diverse musical traditions such as contemporary classical, electro-acoustic improvisation, free jazz, minimalism, and noise. In addition to his practice as a pianist, he incorporates extended electronic processing of the Fender Rhodes, synthesizers, and the computer in his music.
Jon Mueller’s singular performance idiom is an awe-inspiring display of elegant athleticism, preternatural focus, brute restraint, and ecstatic, monastic reverie. Mueller’s approach requires and demands a state of inner quietude from witnesses. Yet, from his seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound. “My connection to playing drums is to use them to enter a different state of mind. What may seem like an escape is actually bringing an energy or feeling into a room. That energy is something I can’t really define, but it is distinct. Achieving it is the basis of quality by which I analyze my work. Ultimately, the construction of performances and the arrangement of sound in recordings, is to create an experience with that energy.”
Ro(b)//ert Lundberg is a water drinker ~ infrastructural thinker ~ music, word, and image tinkerer. Through shifting rhythms in sound, language, and video, they attempt to reorient audiences to more-than-human relations hiding in plain site. Drawing sonic inspiration from the glitch minimalism of Ryoji Ikeda, the tuneful experimentalism of Arthur Russell, and the engrossing trance of Hamid el Kasri, Lundberg builds performances that unsettle presumed relations to pipes, property, pollution.
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111 S. Livingston St. #100, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53703
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