May 19 | noise night

Wilson Shook (Los Angeles)
Shao Way Wu
slip shimmer (trotter + Stillabower)

doors 7p
show 7:30p
$10-15 sliding scale

plus a few Arts for All tickets $5 (Oregon Trail Card/SNAP)

noise night returns to PWNW with Wilson Shook (LA), Shao Way Wu and slip shimmer (stephanie lavon trotter/Anthony J Stillabower).

About the artists:

image of Wilson Shook LA improviers in front of pink flowers

Wilson Shook is an improvising saxophonist and manual therapist living in LA. His approach to music has been shaped by collaborative relationships with Gust Burns, Paul Hoskin, Ben Bennett, Greg Kelley, Carol Genetti, Ted Byrnes, and others, as well as an ongoing sonic exploration of the resonant void spaces of American hydrologic and transportation infrastructure. For 10 years Wilson helped to organize the performance space Gallery 1412 in Seattle, and worked closely with the Seattle Improvised Music Festival
A self-taught musician, Wilson approaches improvisation, study, collaboration, and performance as sites of radical experimentation with modes of being, relating, and perceiving. Wilson’s practice cultivates an awareness of human vulnerability and technological fallibility; embraces excess, fragmentation, and incompleteness; and pursues the chaotic, queer, and interdependent imperatives of an aleatory existence amidst a crumbling, toxic culture.
Attentiveness, transformation, commitment to the materiality of the musical act and its consequences; radical presence as the only avenue of escape. Always mindful of the axiom, via Éluard—There is another world, but it is in this one.
https://www.otherghosts.net

Shao Way Wu is a Portland based freelance bassist.

Current projects include; Two Bass Hit, Chris Lee Duo, John Savage Quartet,  Cowboy Jazz, Ike Levin Quintet, Alan Cook Collective,  Gordon Lee Group,  Tim Duroche Trio,  John Neikrasz Trio, Social Stomach, Notes and Motes and the Extradition Series.

images of Anthony J. Stillabower and stephanie lavon trotter with galaxy images overlaid on their faces on a pink background

slip shimmer is a fantasy spell, a viscous space of sounds made by voices, bodies. it is a duo of composer-performers stephanie lavon trotter and Anthony J. Stillabower. And it’s a burgeoning fashion line.