G R I M M E R  is an electronic duo creating experimental music through structured improvisation, unconventional usage of hardware, and live processing in Max/MSP. Composers Aaron Michael Smith and André Mestre work together to construct gridless live sets that focus on the intimate entanglement of noise.

André Mestre is a Brazilian composer, sound artist, and educational researcher based in Norway. His artistic works are generally conceived for small instrumental configurations augmented by electronic media, new musical interfaces, or immersive installation environments.

dj and producer | upcoming:
11/28 Golden Goose Southpark
12/12 KANNA COLLECTIVE

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2024
11/6 Lorem Ipsum Listening Bar
11/21 Exchange at 36th

2025
1/25 moss haven | plaza midwood
5/2 thrift pony @ camp north end
7/18 thrift pony @ camp north end
9/20 mint museum closing show hermanos de la torre
10/30 Trick or Techno (dm for addy)
10/31 Latorre Halloween Party
10/31 T4T Halloween at Hattie's Tap & Tavern
11/7 KANNA COLLECTIVE
11/13 KANNA COLLECTIVE Brandy x Monica

Rodney Lister has received commissions, grants, and fellowships from the Berkshire Music Center, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation at the Library of Congress, the Fires of London, the Poets' Theatre, the Virgil Thomson Foundation, the Preparatory School of the New England Conservatory, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, the Master Singers, the International Barbara Pym Society, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others. He was co-founder and co-director of Music Here & Now, a concert series of new music by Boston area composers at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1971-1973), and from 1976 until 1982 was music coordinator of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble. His music has been recorded on the Albany, Arsis, Summit labels, and his recording with David Kopp of music for piano four hands by Virgil Thomson, Harold Shapero, and Arthur Berger is on the New World label. He is currently on the faculties of Boston University School of Music, where he teaches composition and theory and is the director of Time’s Arrow, a new music ensemble, and of the Preparatory School of the New England Conservatory, where he teaches composition, theory, and chamber music and is director of the school’s annual contemporary music festival. He is also a music tutor at Pforzheimer House, Harvard University, and is on the faculty of Greenwood Music Camp.

Rodney Lister's works have been performed by Joel Smirnoff, Tammy Grimes, Phyllis Curtin, Jane Manning, Mary Thomas, Michael Finnissy, Kathleen Supove, Jonah Sirota, Rebecca Fischer, Boston Cecelia, the Blair and Chiara Quartets, the Boston University Wind Ensemble, Collage New Music and the Fires of London among others, at Tanglewood, the Library of Congress, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and in New York and London, among other places. As a pianist, he has been involved in premieres, first US performances, first UK performances or first Boston performances of works by Virgil Thomson, Peter Maxwell Davies, Milton Babbitt, Michael Finnissy, Philip Grange, Lee Hyla, and Paul Bowles, among others. His articles and reviews have appeared in Tempo, Sequenza21, and The Paris New Music Review. He is the author of the article on Arthur Berger in the Grove Dictionary of American Music.  His articles on the music of Peter Maxwell Davies were published in Tempo and in Peter Maxwell Davies Studies edited by Nicholas Jones and Kenneth Gloag.  

Rodney Lister received his early musical training at the Blair School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a student at the New England Conservatory of Music (Bachelor of Music degree, with honors) from 1969 to 1973 and at Brandeis University (Master of Fine Arts degree) from 1975 to 1977, and from which he received a doctorate in 2000. He studied privately with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and was a member of Davies's composition seminar at the Dartington Hall Summer School of Music (1975, 1978, 1980-82). He was a Bernstein fellow at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood in 1973. His composition teachers, aside from Davies, were Malcolm Peyton, Donald Martino, Harold Shapero, Arthur Berger, and Virgil Thomson. He also studied piano with Enid Katahn, David Hagan, Robert Helps, and Patricia Zander.

I make music.
Cairo, Egypt
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boston/dc-based composer + performer (rested field)+ writer

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌 𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌

Boston-based instrument builder Muxer's bleeding-edge "Sandcastle" out now!

Contact & demo submissions: geryonlabel@gmail.com

Aaron Michael Smith (UN/NO) is a composer, violist and artist currently based in Boston, MA.  Aaron is interested in exploring the way that various practices and mediums overlap, reflect and contradict one another.  He is often engaged in collaborations with filmmakers, visual artists, philosophers and other musicians.

masters: 
composition with Joshua Fineberg & Rodney Lister @ Boston University
undergrad: 
music composition & viola performance @ Indiana University Jacobs School of Music - Bloomington, Indiana
from a small town in northern Indiana called Wabash.  

contact me here or at aaronmichaelcomposer AT gmail.com

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