Sun Silo: Endlessly Repeating Endlessly

Endlessly Repeating Endlessly (ERE) is a study of “repetition in change” and “change in repetition” realized through the mediums of popular and experimental music. Informed by 1960s American minimalism, 1970s German Kosmische Musik, and a variety of trance-music performance traditions (from Brekete ritual performance to the Balinese Barong dance), ERE explores the paradoxes of expansion/contraction and propulsion/stasis at the heart of musical repetition. Through a commitment to gradual development centered in ostinatos, textural and timbral exploration, and multi-linear organization, ERE seeks to engender moments of deep listening among both its performers and audience members. Ultimately, ERE is an attempt to develop a musical corollary to Zeno’s Arrow Paradox, summarized in Aristotle’s Physics: “If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless” (VI:9, 239b5).

Sun Silo is:Michael Gallope (synths/samples)Jason McGrath (guitars)Aaron McKain (bass and guitar)Matt Sumera (drums/percussion)Travis Workman (keyboard)DETAILED SCHEDULE / SPECIAL GUESTS:Shawn Ballarin (visuals)Sumanth Gopinath (guitar)Josh Gumiela (electronics, visuals, percussion)David Olson (trumpet)Solveig Mebust (vocals)Cole Pulice (saxophone)Thomas Pepper (lecture)Mary Scott (electronics)Aaron Thompson (electronics)Jack Vishneski (trumpet, banjo)9:00 p.m. – Drone (w/ Josh Gumiela, electronics; Solveig Mebust, vocals)9:40 – “Orbitals” (w/ David Olson, trumpet)10:00 – Expanse 1: ZENO’S PARADOX (w/ Josh Gumiela, electronics; Solveig Mebust, Jack Vishneski, vocals)10:30 – LECTURE: Thomas Pepper, “On the Cosmos”11:10 – “Seward Alcoholic” (w/ Cole Pulice, sax)11:40 – Expanse 2: ERASURE (w/David Olson, trumpet; Cole Pulice, sax; Jack Vishneski, trumpet)12:00 a.m. – “45th Parallel” (w/ Sumanth Gopinath, guitar)12:30 –Expanse 3: SILENT FOREST1:00 – “Sickle”1:30 – “Bit Bug” (w/ Josh Gumiela, percussion)1:40 – Expanse 4: NOTHINGNESS2:00 – “Yoga Cowboy” (w/ Sumanth Gopinath, guitar)3:00 – “Mutants”3:30 – Expanse 5: SILENT APOCALYPSE4:00 – “The Cosmic Triangle” (w/ Aaron Thompson and Mary Scott, electronics)5:00 – 5:36 a.m. “Eno In Reno”

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