New Ear Festival ’24 – Sunday, Jan 7th

Nepenthe
Nepenthae’s slow moving and visceral sonic world draws upon diverse influences ranging from noise, doom metal, free jazz, and spectralism, invoking a full spectrum vibratory experience, oscillating between stasis and movement, and the materialintensity of low frequency sound.
Nepenthae’s unique instrumentation features:
17-string electric bass (Zach Layton), contrabass, (Henry Fraser),
and drums (Greg Fox).

HxH
HxH is the improvisatory electro-acoustic duo of Lester St. Louis and Chris Williams. The duo utilizes a mix of trumpet, cello and electronics to build worlds traversing through acoustic sound, grainy textures, expansive pools of sounds, breaks, cuts and beats. The approach is conceived as an expansiveness that holds a personal intimacy. HxH wants to bring the listeners in, tune them to the experience and take a long trip. HxH functions as a vehicle to bring together the mass of references andinfluences Chris and Lester share and create ways to crystalize those ideas in real, expanded time to an experience over minutes or hours.