Sarah Ruth Alexander

 

Sarah Ruth Alexander

Sarah Ruth Alexander is an improviser from Denton, Texas.  As a multi-instrumentalist, her performances involve a combination of hammered dulcimer, harmonium, electroacoustic sound, and extended vocal techniques to create performances that are truly spontaneous and reactive to the space and audience.

She is a University of North Texas graduate where she focused on vocal studies and electroacoustic composition.  She has also studied with Meredith Monk and members of her vocal ensemble.

She performs frequently both solo and with improvisational ensembles in the North Texas area, as well as artists far and abroad, such as  Damon Smith, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jaap Blonk, Liz Tonne, Lisa Cameron, Tom Carter, and Aaron Gonzalez, to list a few.

Sarah curates the Joan of Bark concert series and label in Denton. She also hosts a radio program called Tiger D on KUZU LP broadcasting in Denton at 92.9 FM and streaming online at kuzu.fm, playing music and often featuring guest musicians to curate and discuss their playlists.  She recently had a chapter titled “Community Building Through Collaboration,” published in Routledge’s Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change.

 
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Coppice

For over 15 years, Chicago-based duo Coppice (Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer) has created experimental music centered on auditory pairings.  Currently, Coppice is exploring the timbres, tones, and shapes of idiophones (a kind of musical instrument whose own substance vibrates to produce sound), and strategies in spatial audio (actual and simulated).  With this pairing, Coppice folds in elements of past works into new forms, presenting a repertoire of echoes.

Coppice’s experiments include Bellows & Electronics (2009–2014), Physical Modeling & Modular Syntheses (2014–2018), and Phonography & Fiction (2018–2022).  These musical trajectories and their respective instruments and devices are documented on Coppice’s website, which also includes writings on its creative processes.

Coppice has been praised as “rich and highly abstract,” “volatile,” “bewildering,” “a universe unto itself,” and “music that simply exists on its own terms.”  Ranging between installations and performances, its works have been presented at museums, universities, and DIY spaces in the US, and published internationally on numerous artist-run labels.

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