Fri 5/6 @ 8PM
Musician/visual artist Matt Kiroff is known for creating multi-disciplinary projects that push boundaries of what can be doing with music, visual art, dance and performance art. Performing as The Pith and Root of Sleep since 1997, he describes the performances he’s organized as “an amalgam of free jazz, improvised avant garde classical music, folk idioms, improvised modern dance, performance art, installation art and visual art in all forms, including constructivist sculptures, video art, video projections, and site specific environmental works.”
These performances aren’t just random messing around; there’s a lot of preparation underlying Kiroff’s work. He has bachelors and masters degrees in composition and piano from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a doctorate from where he studied jazz and composition.
His upcoming performance, taking place at Doubting Thomas Gallery in Tremont, billed as just Matt Kiroff, is called “The Oil Refinery Reeks of Love and Aleotoric Sound and Color.” He’ll perform on his micro-tonally altered election pianos with No-Wave vocal techniques, with Michael Billings on contra-bass flute, George Blake on bass flute, Stephen Frollo on bass clarinet, and Bob Drake with electronics, in a performance that blends improvised music and process painting.
It’s free and open at all.