Friday May 26 * 7pm * TICKETS

Roger Miller is a guitarist, pianist, bassist, composer, singer, percussionist and occasional cornet player. He has been a band leader since 1967. His recordings have appeared on Matador, Fire, Ace of Hearts, SST, New Alliance, Forced Exposure, Cuneiform, Atavistic, Feeding Tube, World in Sound, Sublingual and Fun World. He has toured nationally since 1979 and internationally since 1998. His career officially began in 1979 when he co-founded the influential post-punk band Mission of Burma on guitar and vocals. They have a chapter in the bible of indie rock history "Our Band Could be Your Life", and their documentary "Not a Photograph" was listed in Huffington Post's 18 must-watch documentaries.. They folded in 1983 due to his tinnitus. He formed Birdsongs of the Mesozoic on piano in 1981 and continued in it until 1988. The group blended minimalism, classical, and rock. From 1983-1989 he began his Maximum Electric Piano work, utilizing prepared piano and loops. From 1989 until 1998 he released numerous records as leader, all very different from each other, on guitar or keyboards. In 1998 he joined the Alloy Orchestra on keyboards which continues to the present under the new name The Anvil Orchestra. Roger Ebert said "Alloy Orchestra is the best in the world at accompanying silent film". In 2002-2015 Mission of Burma reformed to high acclaim, and Roger split his touring time between Burma and Alloy. During this time he composed many soundtracks for documentary films, four which premiered at Sundance. In 2010 he began composing chamber music again and his compositions have been performed at New England Conservatory, Tufts University and elsewhere, continuing to the present. His first art installation, "Transmuting the Prosaic", showed at the Brattleboro Art Museum in 2020. He is currently working on his new looping-based music "Dream Interpretations for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble."
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eight-dream-interpretations-for-solo-electric-guitar-ensemble

Insect Factory is the music of Silver Spring, MD's Jeff Barsky, and is a meditative project focused on creating detailed and atmospheric guitar compositions. New tape/download “Celestial Cycles” just released on Already Dead Tapes & Records in August 2022!

“…densely layered loops, planes of static standing tall like a gigantic back-scratcher of audio, improvised melodies clamoring over drones like they’re peaks in a mountain range…monolithic, moving, fluid and entirely lovely.” – Tiny Mix Tapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzIBEBuEWKI