02/25 @ 8:00pm - (CANCELLED) Travis Johns and Liz Meredith

Liz Meredith (b.1981) is a violinist, violinist, improviser, and
composer originally from Baltimore, Maryland.  Her music frequently
moves toward the outer limits of musical genres, being influenced by
rock, electronic, and contemporary instrumental music.

Liz has collaborated with an assortment of individuals, including
songwriters, rock bands, electronic musicians, improvisers, and
composers. She has composed concert music for The Esterhazy String
Quartet, The Opabinia Quartet, and has composed various solo
instrumental pieces as well. Other creative work includes making
electro-acoustic music as both a soloist and collaborator, ambient
music projects, and writing song-based pieces.

Liz received her Bachelor’s Degree in String Performance and Film
Music from The Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA), and her Master’s
Degree in Music Composition from Mills College (Oakland, CA).

Liz studied viola performance with Hank Dutt of The Kronos Quartet and
music composition with Fred Frith.

Liz’s music can be listened to here:
www.lizmeredith.com
www.myspace.com/lizmeredith

Travis Johns (b. 1983) is a composer and sound artist from San Francisco, Ca. Using a combination of processed field recordings, sine
wave oscillators and analog electronics, he attempts to weave textural
tapestries of gestures, thoughts and experiences into a singular mass
of infinite sonic possibilities, often nested somewhere between the
stylistic footholds of free improvisation, dark ambient and harsh
noise – sounding something like the distant swarming of well oiled
mechanical bees woven with fissures of dark tones and noise rips.

He holds a B.M. in Technology in Music and Related Arts from the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, as well as an MFA in Electronic Music
and Recording Media from Mills College, studies conducted with Chris
Brown, Les Stuck and Hilda Paredes. To date, Johns has participated in
residencies at such places as the Atlantic Center for the Arts and
RPI’s Create @ iEar and is also a founding member of the Thinktank
Collective, a new media arts organization and record label founded in
2004 in Oberlin, Oh.

His music has been performed extensively throughout the United States
and abroad to a wide variety of audiences, including the Santa Fe
International Electronic Music Festival (2005 & 2006), The 2007 Los
Angeles Bent Festival and the 2009 International Live Looping
Festival. Recordings of Johns are available from Thinktank Media, Vox
Novus and Shinkoyo Records, among others. For more sounds and more
information, please go to www.think-tankmedia.net, as well as
myspace.com/thoughtcollection001.