Auricle New Music Series presents Julian Lynch, Tim Russell, and Ari Smith on Thursday, April 10 at 7:00pm. Free admission, donations encouraged.
Julian Lynch, Tim Russell, Ari Smith
Julian Lynch is a musician, composer, and ethnomusicologist. He began studying guitar over twenty years ago and has received formal training in performing jazz, classical, and rock music. His recorded work includes albums of experimental rock, ambient, and electronic music. Julian holds a PhD in ethnomusicology and anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has served as a guitar instructor at Monroe Street Arts Center, drawing upon years of international touring as a professional rock musician as well as his academic background at UW-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music. Julian serves as lead guitarist in the rock band Real Estate while also actively composing and recording solo and commercial work.
Tim Russell lives at the confluence of the aural and the visual. He currently serves as Music Director for the University of Wisconsin’s Dance Department. In 2019, Tim was selected as one of the Cowles Visiting Artists at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a first for a Musician in the field of Dance. He has a vast catalogue of works specifically for choreography, most of which exist live, in collaboration with movement. His commitment to the nowness in performance led him to co-create/curate, along with choreographer Maria Gillespie, Hyperlocal MKE, a Music and Dance improvisation series that exists to this day in Milwaukee. His current curatorial project: Common Sage Arts, promotes multidisciplinary artists through carefully curated performances. Along with Tim’s long time collaboration with the Gerald Casel Dance Company, his audio shares the stage with a vast array of choreographic artists bringing Tim and his music across the world from Dock 11 in Berlin to YBCA in San... Read More
Ari Smith (b. 1997) is a bassist, improviser, and composer spanning genres of jazz, experimental, and contemporary classical music, currently based in Madison, Wisconsin, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at UW Madison. In the Wisconsin area, Ari has been a particularly active member of the free jazz and free improvisation scenes, having shared the stage with artists such as Hanah Jon Taylor, Vincent Davis, Jim Baker, Isaiah Collier, Justin Dillard, Emma Dayhuff, and Tatsuya Nakatani. In his through-composed work, Ari strives to explore scores as boundary objects/“power tools” that redistribute agencies across humans and nonhumans, and the potentialities of academic citation styles as a demonstration of dedication to others as well as a creative-expressive practice, within pieces that are underpinned by deeply interdisciplinary conceptual webs.
Before moving to Wisconsin, Ari graduated from Oberlin College and Conservatory in... Read More
This event is made possible by support from Dane Arts; Madison Arts Commission with additional funds from Wisconsin Arts Board. Additional funds also provided by Endres Manufacturing Company Foundation, the Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation. Support also provided by generous individual donations.
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