Tyondai Braxton/Ben Vida/Jefre Cantu-Ledesma; Henry Fraser

Presented by Tremper and Notice Recordings
647 Plank Rd, Phoenicia NY
https://www.tremper.org/events
6:30 doors, 7:00 show
Tonally complex, deep, intentional drone.
Henry opens with solo upright bass using the resonance of the space.

TYONDAI BRAXTON
A composer and electronic musician who has been writing and performing music under his own name and collaboratively since the mid-1990s. Having recently completed a residency at Public Records in Brooklyn, Braxton incorporates electronic and modern orchestral elements into his music, which ranges in scale from solo pieces to large-scale symphonic works. The former front man of experimental rock band Battles, Braxton has focused on his own work since 2010, including his critically acclaimed album Central Market, which has been performed by world-renowned orchestras such as London Sinfonietta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and HIVE, a multimedia project for three percussionists and two modular synthesizer performers which premiered at the Guggenheim in NYC. Braxton has been commissioned to write pieces for ensembles such as The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, The BBC Concert Orchestra, The Bang on a Can All Stars, Kronos Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, and Third Coast Percussion. He has worked in collaboration with the likes of legendary composer Philip Glass as a duo and iconic visual artist Thomas Demand at the 2017 Venice Biennale. 2022 will see the release of the recording of his work Telekinesis for orchestra, choir and electronics with Metropolis Ensemble, The Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and The Crossing.

BEN VIDA
A composer, improviser, writer and artist. His practice encompasses works for voice and ensemble, Musique Concrète, text based compositions and electro-acoustic improvisation. In the mid-90’s he was involved in Chicago’s multi-faceted experimental music scene, co-founding the quartet Town & Country. In the Mid-2000’s he relocated to New York and began producing electronic and systems based compositions which focused on psychoacoustics and advanced synthesis techniques, releasing records on Shelter Press and PAN. He also began exhibiting artworks such as video, text drawings and sound installation. Since 2013, he has been composing pieces that combine his interests in group vocalization, durational performance and typographical scores. Recent performances include Présences Electronique at ina/GRM, ReWire Festival, eFlux, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ZKM, Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Semibreve Festival. Recent releases include The Beat My Head Hit, composed for the YarnWire ensemble and vocalist Nina Dante (Shelter Press) and Vocal Trio (Blume Editions). He teaches in the Sonic Arts, MFA at Brooklyn College.

JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA
A multinitrumentalist based in the Hudson Valley. He releases and performs music under his own name as well as with various collaborators. His most recent record is Gift Song, released on Mexican Summer in March 2025.

HENRY FRASER
Born in Boston, MA in 1991, Henry Fraser moved to NYC in 2014, and has been actively working on a diverse array of projects since. Collaborating with such artists as John Zorn, Ka Baird, Uniform, Mary Halvorson, Lea Bertucci, and Ryan Power, he has toured throughout the US and abroad, playing venues including the Panama Jazz Festival, Moers Festival, Unsound Festival, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and Lincoln Center. Fraser’s raw working materials – the ultimate treatment of which can vary greatly – emerge through collaboration and by engaging with myriad musical forms unto which an improvisational framework can be mapped; these are often communal, ceremonial, psychedelic, and/or religious forms. This dialogical approach privileges no particular sound world or aesthetic, but rather implies a value system whereby the musician(s) themselves – their personal history – are salient in the work. Since 2019, Fraser has focused heavily on solo music for the double bass, culminating in three releases and establishing him as a technical and creative force among his generation of bassists – the latest, Breath Line, was released in the fall of 2024. Fraser was selected as a fellow for the Art OMI Music residency (2021), was named a NYSCA/NYFA Finalist in the category of Music/Sound (2022) and was invited to participate in the SWR NEWJazz Meeting (2022). In 2023, he joined Carnegie Hall’s Future Music Project as a Teaching Artist, facilitating music workshops with incarcerated youth in NYC, and in 2025 he will be one of Pioneer Works’ music residents and have his first residency at The Stone in NYC.