trē

trē seguritan abalos is a sound improviser who plays with flutes and field recordings.

A child of Filipino immigrants, trē moved to Pittsburgh in 2016 from San Jose, CA, to study flute with Alberto Almarza and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Following undergraduate studies trē began improvising with flutes inflected by studying Japanese shakuhachi with devon osamu tipp, sometimes processed through electronics with field recordings and text.

trē often co-facilitates Open Improvisation Lab, a fortnightly improvised music jam session free & open to the public held by the Pittsburgh Sound Preserve. trē organizes unmade place, a series of sound + text experiments featuring local musicians and poets in spaces such as Telephone, The Big Idea Bookstore, the Maple Leaf, Abolition Coffee, and Jerry’s Bar & Grille.

Collaborations include film scores for Pittsburgh Sound + Image, performances for JADED, Anthropology of Motherhood, Trust Visual Arts; ambient duo GLO-TREE with GNM; durational soundscapes for Herman Pearl’s Drift Terrain and with How Things Are Made at The Space Upstairs; live music for Confluence Ballet composed by Joshua Malavé; and projects with BusCrates, 7D, Jenna Peng, Sara Tang, Ariel Xiu, Caleb Gamble, Ricki Weidenhof, eli namay, Mai Khôi, and Petra Floyd.

In 2025 trē performed a solo tour of improvised music in Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Diego in collaboration with Sarah Christiansen / Sunswept, Chaz Prymak / Yardwork Presents, and Jonathan Piper. At CTM Festival trē wrote a text score for a lab hosted by Stas Shärifullá and Susie Ibarra called “a tune you almost remember: text score as poetics / playful research between forgetting & improvisation,” premiered at Radialsystem in Berlin.

Recordings of trē’s playing include “live summer etudes,” three solo sets performed in 2025; “sequences of air,” sound collage for cassette tape; “A Place I Recognized” (Habitat Sounds), flute improvisation with field recordings; “Branches Wide Open,” a collaboration with composer Nick Fagnilli on electronics and toy piano; “GLO-TREE”, ambient music with GNM (guitar) and Herman Pearl (sound design, electronics); “Musically Yours: A Tribute to Sam Rivers” (Fleur Records), free jazz with Dylan Zeh (bass), Ross Antonich (drums), and Derek Bendel (tenor saxophone). Future releases include a duo record with electronics by Adam Kantz.

In 2023 trē attended Susie Ibarra and Jake Landau’s first Rhythm in Nature Residency at PS21 in Chatham, New York, field recording and premiering Susie Ibarra’s Four Meditations on Impermanence in an improvising orchestra featuring Tashi Dorji and Phyllis Chen.

In 2018 trē traveled on a research scholarship to Argentina to study roles and meanings of música folclórica in nation-building and indigenous communities.

trē has performed improvised music in spaces from Telephone and The Government Center to Bantha Tea Bar, The Space Upstairs, Seafoam, The Maple Leaf, Fungus Books & Records, The Big Idea Bookstore, Bottom Feeder Books, the Melwood Screening Room, Collision, Certain Death ii, Remedy, brillobox, Mr. Roboto Project, Bunker Projects, inter-, Signal Sauna, Stage MK, Mixtape, Scobi Hotel, Scoot’s Garage / Pierogi Palace, Jerry’s Bar & Grille, Poetry Lounge, Club Pittsburgh, Creative Coffee, Bottlerocket, Spirit Lodge, the Glitterbox Theater, City of Asylum, Riverlife, Carnegie Library at Mt. Washington, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Wood Street Galleries, 707 Gallery, the Warhol Museum, the Miller Institute of Contemporary Art, Sculpture Court and Hall of Sculpture at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Children’s Museum, and the Mattress Factory.