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Jon Mueller: Afterlife Cartoons
On Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 7:00pm, Arts + Literature Laboratory welcomes Afterlife Cartoons, a tour of drum songs by Jon Mueller presented to small audiences in safe environments. In these performances, Mueller will use melodic phrases, repetitive patterns, abrupt shifts, and dynamic energy to construct abstract narratives of sound that are felt rather than told. Mueller will be joined in Madison by classically trained musician Barry Paul Clark (bassist in Field Report, Tontine Ensemble, Lady Cannon, Argopelter, Tony Catania Trio). Andrew Fitzpatrick (Noxroy, Bon Iver, All Tiny Creatures, Volcano Choir) will open.
Due to the pandemic, seating will be limited and advance tickets are recommended. Tickets are $10 online in advance ($8 for students and ALL Members) at https://afterlifecartoons.bpt.me, or $15 at the door for everyone. Advance sales end 1 hour before the concert. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Please review ALL's COVID-19 policy before purchasing your ticket and again before attending the event, as it may be modified based on current public health recommendations.
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.”
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... Read More
Barry Paul Clark (he/him) is a classically trained bassist, composer, improviser, electronic musician and educator. His music can be heard as a part of the performance projects Tontine Ensemble, adoptahighway, Argopelter, Lady Cannon, Field Report, and the Tony Catania Trio. He performs in many of the regional symphony orchestras across southeastern Wisconsin and frequently collaborates in interdisciplinary performance with many of Milwaukee’s top dance/movement organizations. He co-curates the monthly improvised performance series Unrehearsed MKE, founded in 2013. He has composed original music for the films "Seeking Century City" (2017 short, directed by Wes Tank & Adam Carr) and "Plucked" (Official Selection 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, Good Credit Productions) as well as performance and string arrangement, under the direction of electronic musician Lorn, for the Playstation 4 console video game “Killzone Shadow Fall.”
Andrew Fitzpatrick is a musician from Madison, Wisconsin. As a member of the bands Bon Iver, Volcano Choir, and All Tiny Creatures, he has recorded and performed extensively, including appearances at venues and festivals such as the Sydney Opera House and Montreux Jazz Festival. He has collaborated with many artists in many contexts, and has produced a body of solo work that incorporates synthesizers, guitars, field recordings, samplers, and electronic processing.
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