Ben Vida/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Mike Pride; Gryphon Rue/Alex Waterman; Gary Lindorff

Presented by Tremper and Notice Recordings
647 Plank Rd, Phoenicia NY
https://www.tremper.org/events

Unconventional free-improv, trio and duo. With Gary Lindorff reading poetry with FLH on cello.

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.

FRED LONBERG-HOLM
A musician / free improviser currently living in El Cerrito CA. Primarily a cellist, he has also recorded and performed on tenor guitar and trumpet. Recent collaborators include Jessica Ackerley, Farida Amadou, Michael Bisio, Ben Bennett, Georges Paul, Tomeka Reid, Simon Camatta, John Edwards, Ahmed El Mottassem, Helena Espvall, Sandy Ewen, Frode Gjerstad, Kirk Knuffke, Mat Maneri, Joe McPhee, Miguel Mira, Abdul Moimeme, Paal Nilssen-Love, Dave Rempis, Roscoe Mitchell and Ben Vida to name a few. While mostly focusing on free improvising in “ad-hoc” situations, current ongoing projects include Ballister, Survival Unit III, Ear Scratcher, Camatta/Lonberg-Holm, Jakal, The Flying Cellos, the Lightbox Orchestra, Party Knullers and Stirrup. As a session musician, he has contributed cello sounds to numerous recording projects including those of Califone, Freakwater, Kaki King, God-is-my-co-pilot, Simon Joyner, Smog, Super Chunk, US Maple, Wilco, Protomartyr, Ryley Walker and many others. Past projects of note include the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, Vandermark 5, Anthony Coleman’s Selfhaters, Joelle Leandre’s Atlantic Septet, and his own Terminal 4 and the Valentine Trio.

MIKE PRIDE
Based out of New York City since 2000, Mike Pride currently performs solo, leads jazz quartet From Bacteria To Boys, the 7-drummer installation Drummer’s Corpse, the piano trio I Hate Work and his newest band, Tributary Trio. He is also co-leader the ensembles Pulverize The Sound (w/ Peter Evans and Tim Dahl), Three-Layer Cake (w/ Mike Watt & Brandon Seabrook) and Location Location Location (w/ Michael Formanek & Anthony Pirog). Pride is renowned for his ability to excel in a wide range of genres and ensembles. He has worked with everyone from improvised music icon Anthony Braxton to punk legends Millions Of Dead Cops, toured extensively on four continents, appeared on more than 150 recordings, and toured arenas worldwide opening for comedian Amy Schumer with Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore.

GRYPHON RUE
A visual artist and electronic musician celebrated for his adventurous approach to sound and genre. Born in New York City, Rue’s work spans electro-acoustic music, visual art, and cross-media projects, earning him a reputation as “a conjuror in stereo” (Electronic Sound) and as someone who “plays with sonics in a way that a visual artist might manipulate light” (The Quietus). His 2025 album, I Keep My Diamond Necklace In A Pond Of Sparkling Water, has drawn widespread acclaim for its ambitious scope and ecological imagination. The album is noted for its use of field recordings and unconventional instrumentation, creating what critics describe as an “eco-fantasia” where the boundaries between human and non-human sound blur, “creaking and grumbling and humming with subterranean and oceanic immensity, singing in voices both animal and botanical” (The Quietus). Rue’s discography includes solo releases such as 4n_Objx (2024), A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers (2022), and Foliage of Caves (2020). As The Wire observes, Rue’s music is marked by “restless energy, offering up bright, sweet packet sized servings of electroacoustic crispness, pulsing ambient techno, and Cluster’s proto-industrial chug.” Rue’s music has been released on labels such as Not Not Fun, Astral Editions, Tiger Sushi, and Soap Library, and he has performed at venues and festivals including Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, Fondazione ICA Milano, and the Roulette Mixology Festival. He was a 2023-2024 Roulette Jerome Artist Resident.

ALEX WATERMAN
A cellist, sound artist, writer, and archivist exploring how social bodies can live and work together in more musical ways. He has created a diverse body of works including sound installations, film, and video works, exhibitions, amateur choral works, radio and film scores, and solo performances as a cellist, electronic musician, and storyteller. Waterman was an artist in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and has recorded over thirty records as a performer, arranger, and producer. He has produced five books on musical notation and poetics with the British typographer Will Holder. He has taught at the Bard College MFA program, Ramapo College, Wesleyan University, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Alex was the archivist at The Kitchen in New York City from 2021 to 2025 and is an archive consultant for artists, foundations, and community archives.

GARY LINDORFF
A poet and Jungian dreamworker based in Vermont.