Seth Andrew Davis (b. 1994) is a performer, composer, improvisor, & electronic musician from the Kansas City area. Davis is involved in many different genres including, jazz, rock, classical, electronic, electro-acoustic, and free improvisation. Davis graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance in Kansas City, Mo. in 2019 with a BM in Music Composition. Davis has studied with Jim Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Zhou Long, Chen Yi, Mara Gibson and Michael Miller.

Davis’s music has been performed in the United States, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Davis has had his work performed at various conferences and festivals including the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Kansas City Performing Media Festival, NASA Regional IV Conference, Electronic Music Midwest, Exchange of Midwest Collegiate Composers, the International Navy Saxophone Symposium and has had pieces premiered by Mnemosyne Quartet, Project C4, Dionysus, Second Nature Ensemble. Chi Him Chik, Sputter Box, & loadbang. 

As an artist, Davis works closely with performers and collaborators to create pieces, installations, and works that are unique to that partnership. Davis is an avid collaborator, having worked with choreographers, video artists, animators, playwrights etc. Davis’s artistic influences run the gamut from popular music, free-jazz, hip-hop, electronic music, film, literature, visual art, contemporary culture and from this Davis wishes to blur the lines between genres, composer and performer, and various artistic mediums. Davis has released his electronic music under the pseudonyms The Gods Hate Kansas, Mr Sandman, and Ghost In The Machine. Davis is also a founding member of Second Nature, a free jazz/new music/math-rock ensemble, BetaMax, Re-Animator, and is a guitarist in the new music ensemble Project C4. Davis is also an active concert organizer in the Kansas City music scene as the Vice President of KcEMA (Kansas City Electronic Music Alliance) and as the Production Coordinator of newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. In 2020, Davis co-founded Mother Brain Records with saxophonist & composer Michael Eaton. Mother Brain Records is a Midwest based label focused on releasing the works of artists in the experimental & improvised music scenes.

Daniel Morel is a Kansas City-based composer who energizes his music with spectral lyricism. His works are permeated with the Western sensibilities of his Colorado upbringing, drawing on influences ranging from prairie thunderstorms to classic American poetry. As an advocate of new music, Mr. Morel has previously served as director of the much acclaimed Women Composers Festival of Hartford and Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra.

An old-time string band based in The Netherlands, the group endeavors to play a mix of ballads passed down from living folk musicians back in the States as well as songs learned from field recordings and favorite artists. 

In order to come up with a name, Anna and Annick started listing things they missed from home-- Appalachia and the South. After a long list, including warm rain, front porches, driving barefoot, rolling hills, cicadas and crickets, they landed upon the plant, Sweet Joe Pye. 

Annick Odom, voice, bass, & mountain dulcimer
Anna Jane Lester, voice, fiddle, & banjo
Clara San José, voice & cello

Mateusz Śmigasiewicz (1989), artysta dźwiękowy, kompozytor, muzyk. Absolwent Uniwersytetu Muzycznego Fryderyka Chopina w Warszawie w klasie kompozycji i multimediów prof. Zygmunta Krauze. Uczestnik kursów kompozytorskich pod kierunkiem wielu wybitnych artystów, takich jak Simon Steen-Andersen, Phillipp Manoury, Johannes Kreidler, Mark Andre, Agata Zubel, Stefan Prins, Marco Stroppa, Marta Ptaszyńska, Maurizio Sotelo, czy Ondřej Adámek. Działa twórczo na wielu polach, komponując muzykę kameralną, symfoniczną, elektroakustyczną oraz muzykę ilustracyjną do teatru i filmu. 

Interesuje go rozstrajanie zastanych współbrzmień, zagęszczanie faktur, rozciąganie czasu, rozszerzanie przestrzeni – również poprzez tworzenie na zasadzie bliskiej współpracy z wykonawcą. Działa intuicyjnie, choć bliska jest mu procesualność. Uwielbia aranżować sytuacje, w których reguły komunikacji nie są do końca jasne, posługując się przeczuciami zamiast słów.

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Mateusz Śmigasiewicz (b. 1989) is a Polish composer, sound artist and musician. He studied with prof. Zygmunt Krauze at Fryderyk Chopin Music University and in 2015 gained a master degree in composition and multi-media (graduation - 2015). He participated in master classes with many composers, including Simon Steen-Andersen, Phillippe Manoury, Johannes Kreidler, Mark Andre, Stefan Prins, Marco Stroppa, Ondřej Adámek. Mateusz works in many areas, composing chamber music, electroacoustic, electronic music and music film and theater.

He is interested in detuning existing consonances, thickening textures, stretching time, expanding space - also by creating in close collaboration with the performer. He works intuitively, although processuality is important to him. He loves to arrange situations in which the rules of communication are not entirely clear, using premonitions instead of words.

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