upcoming show

["Jonathan Matis" <matis@freedomhouse.org>]

***** For immediate Release


Metatron Press CD release event featuring

Zitt/Matis and Comma

at Galaxy Hut
2711 Wilson Blvd
Arlington VA  22201

Monday, October 25th - 9:00 pm

Galaxy Hut's first ever "Fringe music night" will feature experimental 
improvised music by the guitar/voice duo Zitt/Matis and the vocal trio 
Comma.  The groups will perform independently and mixed in various 
combinations.

Joseph Zitt and Jonathan Matis perform primarily improvised music for 
voice and guitar.  Jonathan plays electric guitar with a variety of 
preparations and signal processors and Joseph sings, chants, and sounds in 
languages known and unknown.  Their music draws freely on the vocabularies 
of free jazz, experimental classical, ambient, and world musics. The 
musicians' backgrounds in improvisation, composition, experimentation, and 
classical, religious, jazz, and rock musics combine to create new music 
that is challenging as well as mysteriously absorbing.

Comma is an ensemble specializing in music that involves improvisation and 
mindfulness practices. Their repertory includes newly composed musical 
works, performance poetry, chant from various early traditions, and group 
improvisations. Techniques include many extended uses of the voice as well 
as electro-acoustic environments.

The show will serve as a CD Release event for Metatron Press, which is 
issuing the first three items in a new series: * "Even the Widest Aardvark 
Outdreams the Gnu" by Zitt/Matis * a self-titled release by Gusty Winds 
May Exist, a shakuhachi/recorder duo featuring Nancy Beckman and Comma 
member Tom Bickley
* "Animals: electronikazoomusique", a collection of electronic works and 
mixes by Comma member Matthew Ross Davis.

For more information about the artists, please see:
http://www.metatronpress.com/artists/zittmatis
http://www.artswire.org/comma
http://www.metatronpress.com/artists/gwme
http://www.metatronpress.com/artists/mrd

For information about Galaxy Hut, see
http://www.galaxyhut.com

For more information please contact
Jonathan Matis
j_matis@yahoo.com
202 296-5101