Saturday, May 24th, 2025, 8:00pm
Salem Access TV, 285 Derby St. #2, Salem, MA
BOOKERS TRIO
(New Haven, CT)
bookers is an improvising trio from connecticut, usa. bookers is michael larocca (dr) luke rovinsky (gtr) and caleb duval (bass).
bookers is not an exercise.
bookers is not self-expression, unless itching your leg or screaming in a mirror is self-expression.
bookers may be humorous, but only in the way watching a person drink milk when they expect orange juice is humorous or watching a man gravely injure himself is humorous.
the bookers practice is a sound methodology in every sense, including the water one. bookers is simple, intuitive music from connecticut for all to enjoy.
press:
"...musical ideas like tiny explosions, perhaps of live ammunition, perhaps of rubber balls or confetti, that then bounce and flutter around the room at high velocity...there is a keen sense of music from various sources being taken apart and scrambled, and of new music being built before our very ears, sometimes with the air of a furrowed brow, sometimes with the flavor of cartoon characters creating Rube Goldberg music that they already know will fail to catch their mouse, and they don’t care."
Brian Slattery, on Bookers "HI-FI LO-IQ"
The New Haven Independent
https://fimimprovisation.bandcamp.com/album/hi-fi-lo-iq
BRAINSPONGE
(Salem, MA)
Salem's own Brainsponge to land on Salem Access TV complete with raps, turntables and distorted noise.
What is "Brain" "Sponge," thoughts from the mind computed into a musical reality.
INVISIBLE SCISSORS
(New York, NY)
Invisible Scissors is an experimental duo formed out of NYC's underground film community. Rachael Guma (theremin, effects) and Sarah Halpern (electric guitar, voice) are long-time collaborators with works culminating in film, performance, zines and music. Invisible Scissors is the newest manifestation of this evolving collaborative work with recent sound and expanded cinema performances at Abasement, WFMU, Microscope Gallery and UnionDocs.
https://invisiblescissors.bandcamp.com/album/invisible-scissors
UN/NO
(Boston, MA)
Aaron Michael Smith is a composer, violist and artist currently based in Boston, MA. Aaron is interested in exploring the way that various practices and mediums overlap, reflect and contradict one another. He is often engaged in collaborations with filmmakers, visual artists, philosophers, poets and other musicians. A large part of his practice since 2012 has been making experimental films which have gone on to be featured at numerous international film festivals.
https://aaronmichaelcomp.myportfolio.com/