The Museum, in partnership with pt.fwd, is excited present saxophonist, composer and improviser Cole Pulice. This free concert will be at the Museum in the second-floor courtroom on Tuesday, October 21, at 6:30 p.m.
You don't want to miss this opportunity to see one this exploratory musician create experimental jazz music during this performance!
The concert will showcase the Oakland-based artists' compositional palette that mixes traditional saxophone playing with electronic psychedelia and passages of ambient music that sound as if Pulice performed them from inside a cathedral of rose quartz. “I wanted to lean into that ephemeral, fragmentary, dream-like surrealism of betweenness,” they say. Pulice's sonic landscapes can be meditative and peaceful or, like “HP / MP,” invigoratingly disorienting.
Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Pulice is now based in Oakland, California. Their most recent album, On Land's End Eternal, their first album for Leaving Records, was released on May 9. Pulice's 22-minute electroacoustic work titled If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You In the Pasture (Longform Editions, 2023), was named “Best New Music” by Pitchfork and landed at #25 on Pitchfork’s “Best 100 Songs of 2023” year-end list. In addition to their solo material, Pulice has numerous collaborative projects, including releases with Lynn Avery (To Live & Die in Space & Time, Moon Glyph 2022), and the electroacoustic trio Signal Quest (Hypermyth, Orange Milk Records 2023).
pt.fwd is an independent, artist-run 501c3 non-profit that organizes contemporary music and sonic arts performances in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. Their mission is to celebrate the communal experience of coming together to listen to powerful new sonic art. In partnership with the McLean County Museum of History, pt.fwd promotes new work by local and regional artists in a historic, acoustically curious setting. All pt.fwd concerts are free and open to the public.
To learn more, please visit ptfwd.org.
Questions? Please contact the Education Department.