July 29 || noise night || Wilson Shook, Rebecca Novak, stephanie lavon trotter, and dana jnnfrsn

Born in Chicago and raised in Miami and Michigan, musician and artist Rebecca Novak began playing piano by ear at the age of four. Widely listening to jazz and improvised music, she played orchestral horn in Chicago and Houston until the mid-1990’s, then breaking away from music  for over a decade to study and practice drawing, painting and sculpture, and later becoming involved in photography, dance, and writing as a performance practice.  Her work often combines music with sculpture, live writing or projected image as a way to investigate the complex relationships between self and environment,  body and object, performance and being, the political and the philosophical.
As an improvising musician, Novak works with  a shifting constellation of instruments and objects – cornet, piano, Autoharp, glass vases – with an ear for fine-grained textures and mechanical or electronic sounds using acoustic instruments. She has performed and recorded in the trio Garden medium with Sandy Ewen (guitar and objects) and Carol Sandin Cooley (electronics and voice); in duos with tape/electronic musician Steve Jansen and percussionist Anders Zelinski; in the sound + light duo Waveform Reversal with projectionist/bassist Ivy Woods, and with many other musicians.  
Novak has performed and presented her work at Project Row Houses (Houston, TX), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), The Station Museum (Houston, TX), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), Minicine? (Shreveport, Louisiana), Marfa Open (Marfa, TX), Ghost (Santa Fe, NM), ATA (San Francisco), No Idea Festival (Austin, TX), Molton  Plains (Denton, TX), Alabama Song (Houston, TX), and through residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts with Master bassist Michael Bisio, and labotanica (Houston, TX) with artist/curator Ayanna Jolivet McCloud. https://www.rebeccanovak.net/home