Concert: Formations Series for New & Improvised Music *HYBRID*

In person at Woodland Pattern and livestreaming via Crowdcast

Formations is a monthly music series curated by Jay Mollerskov, and dedicated to fostering the growth of new and improvised music in Milwaukee.

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Set 1: Wilhelm Matthies & Mark Mantel

Mark Mantel and Wilhelm Matthies will perform improvisations. Mark will play a variety of percussion instruments, and Wilhelm will play his invented instrument, the mosesa.

(The mosesa is a bowed and pluckable 4-stringed instrument played horizontally. It uses acoustic and electronic inputs/outputs for sound generation. The mosesa5  debuted at the Formations Series in 2015, and in 2023, Wilhelm will play his 15th model.) Mark and Wilhelm have played together a number of times at the Formations Series, as well as with Jason Wietlispach in his studio in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Both share a very intuitive sense of crescendo and decrescendos when blending and contrasting percussion and string sounds.

Set 2: Steve Nelson-Raney & Jack Grassel

Jack Grassel and Steve Nelson-Raney have been playing improvised music together for over forty years. The music has evolved from the early days of guitar and piano duets to more multi dimensional/multi instrumental directions. This performance will reflect the current enthusiasms of the two players.

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