Read-Shifting Room is a communal reading room curated by AAPI creatives of JADED, located at Bunker Projects from July 11 to August 3. On opening night I will be collaborating with Iris Kang for a text-based improvisation to activate the space.

Graphic by Paul Peng

Sunday July 7, 2024 at 7pm

Bantha Tea Bar

$10

Leaf Glitter (tour)

trē + treefriends (improvised trio with 7D and Drew Collins)

Dylan Sidoriak

flier by 7D

https://carnegieart.org/event/inside-out-june-29-2024/

GLO-TREE (improvised duo by GNM, guitar and Trē, flutes) played an ambient set from 6-7pm, then joined NAT 28 for a special performance of “Stay On It” by Julius Eastman at The Mattress Factory. Many thanks to NAT 28, event organizers & hosts for having us!

House show reprising improvised trio with Trē on flutes, Ricki Weidenhof (cello, electronics) and Caleb Gamble (upright bass). Sharing a bill with The Ill-Fitting Party and touring acts Cookie Tongue (NOLA) and the Gabe Heinemann Trio (Chicago)

Release show of the TGDhiss Ensemble (Dittocrush, cassette tapes, Ross Antonich, drums, and Miles Scharff, guitar) at Stage MK. Feat. improvised set by Ricki Weidenhof (cello), Adam Kantz (drums, electronics), and Trē (flutes).

Stage MK. DM @pittsburghsoundpreserve on IG for address.

Night of music, food & drink, art and performances featuring GLO-TREE (Gloria Mwarage, guitar and Trē, flutes), Lys Scott, Sneeze Awfull, Ron Mist, Dave Clevr, Sleeping Witch & Saturn, Sweat, and Jellyfish.

Details here: https://mattress.org/events/garden-party-make-believe/

Feat. Kenta / Hellcat Sneer, 7D, and Keith Devries. Details to come.

GLO-TREE (Gloria Mwarage, guitar and Trē, flutes) will be improvising an ambient set of music from 12:45-1:45pm at Art in the Garden’s Spring Festival in Borland Community Garden. Learn more about Art in the Garden here: https://omaartinthegarden.org

NY-based violinist Charlotte Munn-Wood brings new solo music to Pgh en route to the Uncommon Sound Project. Also feat. improvised sets by Ricki Weidenhof (cello) / Trē Seguritan Abalos (flutes) / Caleb Gamble (bass) as well as Jason Belcher (valve trombone) / Brian Riordan (laptop).

$10-15 donation NOTAFLOF.

DM @pierogi.palace on IG for address or Facebook event organizer: https://m.facebook.com/events/2110938022622683/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22:%22null%22%7D&ref_source=newsfeed&ref_mechanism=feed_attachment

Opening reception for “Two Open Mouths,” a solo show by Karen Lue at Bottom Feeder Books. The reception will feature readings by Sara Tang, Brent Nakamoto, and Elina Zhang as well as live, improvised interpretations by Iris Seoyoung Kang and Trē Seguritan Abalos of text scores they wrote for each other.

GLO-TREE (Gloria Mwarage, guitar and Trē, flutes) will be welcoming guests to Night of A Thousand Divas, the annual fundraising show for Allies, with an hour of improvised ambient music. We will be in the Children’s Museum from 6-7pm. Details for show and event, also featuring Formosa, Swampwalk, Sherry-CD Rom, Manny DiBiachi, and others, here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/allies-free-for-all-night-of-a-thousand-divas-tickets-827581838557?aff=oddtdtcreator

Many thanks to the BXA department at Carnegie Mellon University for inviting me to join this year’s alumni panel, reflecting and speaking with students about building a creative life after college. Photo by Jake Landau.

tcrps prsnts an evening of improvised music featuring

MICHAEL FOSTER'S THE GHOST
[Michael Foster on saxophones, John Moran on bass, Joey Sullivan on drums: NYC]

with opening sets by
GAMBLE / ABALOS / WEIDENHOF
and
FAGNILLI / CHIN / DITTOCRUSH / WILLIS

all-ages
doors 7pm
$15 suggested donation. no one turned away for lack of funds.

BANTHA TEA BAR
5002 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224

Eight Views of Oomi: a night of Japanese chamber music with devon osamu tipp & Kanoko Kamata

feat. guest artists Satoshi Itoh & Trē

free admission

Join Soy Sos and musical duo GLO-TREE for a 2-part intimate, immersive sound experience with modular synths, electronics, and improvised flute and guitar! Using synchronization-based ensembles, Soy Sos collaborates with contemporary sound artists to create live, improvised soundscapes. This in-studio, limited event will also be live-streamed through Pittsburgh Modular’s YouTube channel.

Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pearlartsstudios/1029856

Improvised duo GLO-TREE is joining How Things Are Made for four hours of drone / ambient music held at The Space Upstairs feat. The Pillow Project. 6-10pm. $10 suggested.

Photo by Mai Khôi.

“Laughing on Stratus Clouds” written, recorded, produced by Hellcat Sneer and Kenta in February 2024. A gorgeous piece I’m so proud to be part of.

Listen here!

feat. André Solomon (flute), Trē (piccolo), Darren Moore (bass), Nick Fagnilli (keys, jaw harp).

GLO-TREE (improvised-ambient duo with GNM) opens for new music duo LIGAMENT (Will Yager and Annika Kildegaard, Baltimore) at Bantha Tea Bar. 9:30pm. $10-20 NOTAFLOF.

2 nights of sound and poetry held by Fungus Books with Ceremonial Abyss. 6pm.

Night 1 feat. poetry readings / spoken word / improvised / DJ sets by:

Funeral Parade of Roses

Yotzeret Sheydim

Trē

Ed Steck / John Kasunic

Zach Peckham

Tough Pill is a monthly experimental / improvised concert series held by the Pittsburgh Sound Preserve at The Government Center every third Thursday.

8pm. $10-20. NOTAFLOF.

Freida Abtan / Eli Namay

Román Antopólsky / Caleb Gamble / Nick Fagnilli / Trē

Improvised January 2024 by Trē on flutes and David Bernabo on percussion. Mixed and mastered by David Bernabo. Released by Ongoing Box.

Listen here!

Excited to join I4A for an improvised duo set on a bill with Memory Wound (tapes, Pgh) and Zurich Cloud Motors (Noiseville psycho-jazz, Louisville, KY). Live visuals by Michi Tapes (Pgh).

Free at Poetry Lounge. 8pm.

Improvising a live soundscape with André Solomon (flute), Aaron Basskin (synthesizer), Stephen Chin (tabla / cajon) inspired by elements of Hindustani classical music, as part of the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Winter Art Exhibition. 6-8pm, free.

Excited to have contributed a soundtrack to the silent film Spang’s First Century recovered by Pittsburgh Sound + Image. Other soundtracks created by Hezreel Robertson, INEZ, Bri Dominique, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Bryce Rabideau, and Margaret Cox.

Happy to be back adding flute to a live-streamed jam series by Richard Nicol, BusCrates, and Soy Sos / Herman Pearl on Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizer’s YouTube channel.