JJ Hamon / Louis Wall (solo sets)
Monday, March 1, 2021 | 8:15pm CST
Online (New Music Circle YouTube Channel)
Solo performances by:
JJ Hamon – electronics & self built instruments
Louis Wall – drums / percussion
This event will be free to view, however your donations will help support this event and other NMC events to come
JJ Hamon
A rover of eclectic self-built instrumentation, JJ Hamon is a south-St Louis musician. His sonic sensibilities are a homebrewed mixture of analog-electronic explorations and ecstatic sentiments of both folk and pop music.
His long-running STL band, Demonlover (with Andy Lashier), holds a special STL lore for continually putting on unpredictable live experiences; no two shows were the same. Demonlover’s improvisatory approach to songcraft and performance is also shared in JJ Hamon’s own solo outings (sometimes under the moniker Okendo), where he fuses homemade electronic devices with hand-crafted acoustic instruments. With a penchant for sonic-adventure, and a wink to the Smithsonian Folkways eclectic catalogue, his creations inform his compositions, and vice versa.
His performance will be captured by STL’s Foveal Media, and documented in various locations in his backyard.
Louis Wall
Louis Wall is a Saint Louis, Missouri based composer, collaborator, and percussionist. His work can be found on solo digital recordings and accompanying films. Prior to pandemic-shutdown, Wall was consistently performing live in St. Louis’ vibrant local music scenes. Louis’ most recent composition, Eye Contact is a free, partially improvised work for percussion, Where he explores expectations of time and duration. As a collaborator he has performed in improvised settings with the likes of Frank Rosaly, John Wiese (STL Ensemble work), and in The Luminary’s ongoing displaced-immigrant benefit series, Drummers Only.
Wall is director of The Texas Room, a label and music collaboration and production label, which worked with recent STL immigrants to help them share songs and sounds of their homelands. This series culminated with a CD compilation and various concert showcases.
For his online performance, he will present four pieces, including a solo percussion improvisation, and new arrangements and compositions for piano and electronics.
