Charlotte Mundy; Ka Baird; Erica Dawn Lyle/Marshall Trammell; Emily Rach Beisel

Notice Recordings presents

Charlotte Mundy/Francisco del Pino
Ka Baird
Erica Dawn Lyle/Marshall Trammell
Emily Rach Beisel

6:30 doors, 7 show

Charlotte Mundy/Francisco del Pino – performing from their new album “The Sea”. Charlotte is a classically trained and extended technique vocalist

Ka Baird – deep vocal experimentation utilizing multiple types of microphones

Erica Dawn Lyle/Marshall Trammell – fiery electric guitarist duo. Erica is formerly of Bikini Kill and Marshall Trammell is a much loved drummer

Emily Rach Beisel – incredible bass clarinetist and electronics performer

CHARLOTTE MUNDY
As a founding member of TAK ensemble, “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen), Mundy has performed at Lincoln Center and the Library of Congress, premiering works by Tyshawn Sorey, Erin Gee, Eric Wubbels, Brandon Lopez, and Natacha Diels. Mundy is also a core member of Ekmeles, described as “beyond expert – almost frightening in their precision” by Fanfare magazine and recent recipients of the Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize. As a soloist, Mundy’ recently performed in the world premiere of site specific opera Newtown Odyssey by Kurt Rohde and Marie Lorenz; a solo recital at The Americas Society; premieres of concert works by Francisco del Pino, Alyssa Regent and Aida Shirazi, and the debut of a new collaborative multimedia project with Christian Quiñones.
As a recording artist, Mundy is featured on recordings ranging from contemporary classical music to black metal to prog rock to ambient music. She is featured on guitarist/composer Ben Monder’s latest album, Planetarium, and is the vocal soloist on the studio recording of Bekah Simms’ 2022 Juno award winning composition Bestiary I & II. Her recordings as a member of TAK and Ekmeles have been widely praised.
Fascinated by interdisciplinary work, Mundy has appeared at the Park Avenue Armory as part of a work by Martin Creed and the Metropolitan Museum singing with Oliver Beer’s Vessel Orchestra. She has an ongoing relationship with New Chamber Ballet led by Miro Magloire, in which she memorizes contemporary vocal works and moves as a member of Magloire’s choreography with the company’s trained dancers. She performed in the documentary music theatre work A Star Has Burnt My Eye, written by Howard Fishman, on the BAM Next Wave Festival.
Born in Toronto and based in Brooklyn, Mundy studied classical voice at the University of Toronto, contemporary performance at the Manhattan School of Music, and is working toward a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the CUNY Graduate Center.

KA BAIRD
A performer, sound artist, musician and composer based in New York City. They are known for their live performances which include extended voice and microphone techniques combined with electronics and psychoacoustic interplay of flutes and other woodwinds. They create a present tense sound with a vigorous, ritualistic delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension. They have worked/collaborated with many other musicians, artists, filmmakers and choreographers, both in structured compositions and in their dedicated practice of improvisation and interdisciplinary work.
Their solo releases include “Sapropelic Pycnic” (Drag City 2017), “Respires” (RVNG Intl 2019), “Brooding Exercises” (Longform Editions 2021), and “Vivification Exercises” (RVNG Intl 2021). In March 2024, they released their most recent solo record entitled “Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos” through Brooklyn imprint RVNG Intl. Recent national and international engagements have included performances at Unsound Festival (Krakow, PL), Lampo (Chicago, IL), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL), MoMA PS1 (Queens, NY), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY), The Kitchen (NYC), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA), TUSK Festival (Newcastle, UK), Incubate (Tilburg, NL), KRAAK (Brussels, BE), Le Guess Who (Utrecht, NL), and the Festival Of Endless Gratitude (Copenhagen, DK). They have been artist-in-residence at We Jazz Festival (Helsinki, FI), Sonoscopia (Porto, PT), Inkonst (Malmo, SE), Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago, IL), and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY). They have been a recipient of the Foundation of Contemporary Art’s Emergency Grant, a Jerome Foundation Artist-In-Residence at Roulette Intermedium, and is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow through 2023-25.
They are one of the core members of Spires That In The Sunset Rise, founded in Chicago in 2001.

ERICA DAWN LYLE
A writer, curator, experimental musician, and cultural instigator who lives in New York City and Florida. The former touring guitar player for Bikini Kill, as a solo performer, Lyle has released musical collaborations with Kim Gordon, The Raincoats, Bernadette Mayer, Kathleen Hanna, Brontez Purcell, and many more. Lyle is the author of Streetopia(Booklyn, 2015) and On The Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of The City (Soft Skull, 2008) and has written for Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, and NPR’s This American Life. Her most recent book is The Knight of Cups (Belladonna Press, 2023).

MARSHALL TRAMMELL
An experimental archivist, percussionist, conductor, and composer. His aesthetics and activism are centered in social change interventions and generate new local and global ecologies that embrace improvisation as a collective, movement-building tool in the creation of post-capitalist imaginaries. Trammell’s work also uses political aesthetic theory, data creation, mapping, and collective music-and-artmaking in order to step out of the domain of traditional cultural institutions, relocating the act of co-production back in the community.
Trammell’s Music Research Strategies is a performing-political education platform for embodied social justice vernacular, organizational strategy, and alternative infrastructure development. Under the auspices of Music Research Strategies, Trammell received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant in 2019 to present the work Towards A Solidarity Economics Conduction System for Improvisers (2019) at Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin Art University, Berliner Gazette Redaktion, and Dekalb Gallery at Pratt Institute. This project, undertaken with Oakland-based cultural organizer and Pro Arts Gallery and COMMONS Executive Director Natalia Ivanova Mount, was inspired by Trammell’s interest in codes embedded in quilts that may have guided slaves to areas of safety in the Underground Railroad.
He also received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant in 2015 to tour internationally with the band Black Spirituals. Black Spirituals, which consisted of Trammell and collaborator Zachary James Watkins, was a performance project that featured the two soloists improvising in tandem. Drawing on the participants’ backgrounds in composition, sound art, and free music, Black Spirituals aimed to locate itself within a lineage of Black experimental music and improvisatory performance.
Trammell has collaborated with artists including Sharmi Basu, John Brennan, Raven Chacon, India Cooke, John Dietrich, Chris Cogburn, Marisa DeMarco, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Lisa E. Harris, Antoine Hunter, Eileen Kage, John Jang, Dohee Lee, Genny Lim, Robert McGill, Hafez Modirzadeh, Mogauwane Mahloele, Jamal Moore, David Murray, Pauline Oliveros, Laura Ortman, Akira Sakata, Carlos Santistevan, Jawwaad Taylor, Aaron Turner (SIGE), Saul Williams, Hong-Kai Wang, and Francis Wong.

EMILY RACH BEISEL
A Chicago-based improviser, composer, educator, curator, and woodwind specialist whose work is celebrated for its visceral intensity and innovative blend of techniques. Beisel’s debut solo album, Particle of Organs, released in 2023 on the Amalgam label, has been described as “heavy stuff, sounds retrieved from the deeper places – the underworlds, the lightless subterranea… a raw, abrasive, oppressive, and thrilling journey (A Jazz Noise).” The album centers on the bass clarinet while incorporating voice, electronics, and extended techniques, creating a complex and nuanced soundscape where the origins of sounds are often obscured. This work reflects Beisel’s commitment to embracing ambiguity, avoiding easy categorization, and drawing inspiration from diverse sources.
Beisel is an active participant in the improvised and experimental music communities, both in Chicago and beyond. She performs regularly in Chicago and has toured throughout the US and Canada. Recent performances include Baltimore’s High Zero Festival, Cleveland Uncommon Sound Festival, SIU’s Outside the Box festival, Iowa City’s Feed Me Weird Things, Chicago’s Ear Taxi Festival, as well as a 2023 East Coast and 2024 Midwest tour together with drummer Bill Harris.
As a curator, Beisel is deeply committed to increasing the visibility and involvement of femme, trans, and nonbinary artists within the creative performance community. They founded the Pleiades Series at Elastic Arts, which presents monthly performances and community-based free improvisation sessions. In 2024, Beisel organized and presented the inaugural PleiadesFest, a three-day festival that featured evening performances and improvisation workshops. This festival brought together a diverse array of improvisers, performance artists, dancers, and bands from Chicago’s vibrant creative music scenes, including DIY, punk, noise, singer-songwriter, and electronic dance music communities. PleiadesFest was supported by New Music USA and reflects a significant milestone in fostering inclusive and vibrant artistic exchange.