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Ches Smith Clone Row

Arts + Literature Laboratory
Madison, WI

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Auricle New Music Series welcomes percussionist and composer Ches Smith in support of his new album Clone Row on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 7:00pm. Smith leads an adventurous new quartet featuring guitarists Mary Halvorson and Liberty Ellman and bassist Nick Dunston. Advance online tickets are $25.00 general admission, or $20.00 for students (with ID). ALL members receive 10% discount with promo code. Tickets will also be available at the door for $30.

Smith finds endless possibilities in this seemingly limited instrumentation, weaving together varied threads from his divergent earlier projects in ways that sound not quite like any of them. This definitely aint your fathers guitar band, writes no less an expert on six-string subversion than Marc Ribot, who penned the albums liner notes. Its as if Im hearing a Jim Hall concert in which one of us did a lot of mushrooms, or some post-punk post-Dave Brubeck post-trip-hop experiment with classical form.

Four renowned composer-improvisers tangle with Ches Smiths newest compositions. Two highly individualistic guitarists swirl, echo and double-take, squaring off with a bass and drums team that anchors and unhinges through doubling sounds -- drum machines and acoustic drums, low-end analog synth and acoustic bass, digital samples and repeated fragments performed in real time. In a dance of coherence and chaos, the four musicians plunge headlong into the feedback loop of composition and improvisation armed with chemistry created by their mutual appreciation and enduring friendships.

Location

Arts + Literature Laboratory
111 S. Livingston St. #100
Madison, WI 53703
United States

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