Table of the Elements: All Colors Present Performance-Jon Mueller+Tom Lecky

Sun Nov 09 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-08:00

Blak Box Theater in Joshua Tree | Joshua Tree

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Table of the Elements: All Colors Present Performance-Jon Mueller+Tom Lecky
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Join us for an introspective percussion performance of Jon Mueller + photography of Tom Lecky. In collaboration with Table of the Elements.
About this Event

Join us for an introspective performance of Jon Mueller + Tom Lecky: All Colors Present. Presented in collaboration with Table of the Elements, the show pairs Mueller’s percussion with Lecky’s stunning photographs for a comprehensive live show that indulges the observer in a “sound and visual meditation.” Following the performance there will be a Q&A with the percussion master himself!

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.

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.

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.”

The Joshua Tree Cultural Center is proud to partner with : a rigorous curatorial network and publishing platform, lauded by Pitchfork as “a national treasure.” More than a record label, it is a member-powered engine that exalts ingenuity, repudiates convention, and inspires agency.


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Blak Box Theater in Joshua Tree, 61231 Hwy 62, Joshua Tree, United States

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