Adam Matta, with special guests Bora Yoon, Eyal Maoz, and Sxip Shirey

Show Description

Recently appearing with Bobby McFerrin at Carnegie Hall, Adam Matta is an accomplished beatboxer, fusing vocal percussion, voice, sound effects and looping into new compositions.   A theremin, samples, loop pedal and homemade bike-wheel turntable instrument augment the urban soundscape, traversing funk, hip hop, middle eastern, Latin, jazz, drum n bass, and storytelling.

Bora Yoon is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer, who creates architectural soundscapes from everyday found objects, chamber instruments and digital devices.

Eyal Maoz is an accomplished rock-punk-jazz-Jewish-avantgarde guitarist and composer.  Maoz is the founder of Edom, Dimyon, and many other ensmbles in New York City, Israel and Italy.

Recently as a solo artist Sxip Shirey toured as host and support act for The Dresden Dolls for their fall 2006 US tour and at their two day DVD at The Round House in London. In New York City he performs and curates a high powered variety night called "Sxip's Hour of Charm" at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater. Last winter he composed music for "Marsupial Girl" by Lisa D'Amour for The Children's Theater Company of Minneapolis in a project developed with New Dramatists in NYC. He has also composed for works at the Ohio Theater, HERE, the Southern Theater and Inter-Media Arts in Minneapolis and has toured East Coast Colleges with the puppet theater piece "Savage Nursery" by Erin Orr developed through a grant from the Henson Foundation.