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 FOREST
1:00 – “Sickle”
1:30 – “Bit Bug” (w/ Josh Gumiela, percussion)
1:40 – Expanse 4: NOTHINGNESS
2:00 – “Yoga Cowboy” (w/ Sumanth Gopinath, guitar)
3:00 – “Mutants”
3:30 – Expanse 5: SILENT APOCALYPSE
4:00 – “The Cosmic Triangle” (w/ Aaron Thompson and Mary Scott, electronics)
5:00 – 5:36 a.m. “Eno In Reno”

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