DOUG VAN NORT

Doug Van Nort and Patrick Monte will collaborate on a improvisatory musical performance entitled “Disembodied Chat.” Doug Van Nort is an experimental musician and digital music researcher whose work is dedicated to sound exploration through composition, improvisation, installation, interactive system design, curation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. His work, recognized internationally, is dedicated to personal and collective creative expression through noise, free improvisation and generally electro-acoustic means of production, from the lo-fi of broken electronics to the hi-tech of custom signal processing algorithms. Patrick Monte is a composer, guitarist, percussionist and mbira player who has worked in and explored a range of musical contexts including free group improvisation, composition for jazz and chamber ensembles, traditional mbira music, and pop/rock bands.