Coppice, Joda Clement, Mathieu Ruhlmann, Seth Nehil, Kelly Rauer and Ingenting Kollektiva

The duo known as Coppice is partly an academic exercise. The two men behind the project, Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer, maintain an archive in Chicago of instruments both homemade and mass-produced, as well as some of their own invention. Via the study of these noisemakers and their possibilities, the pair crafts new compositions that can be meditative or turbulent, depending on the timbre and attack of whatever sound source they utilize. A similar aesthetic runs through the work of Canadians Joda Clement and Mathieu Ruhlmann, also on the bill tonight, but it has a more formless quality informed by their use of field recordings and billowing clouds of drone. ROBERT HAM