$12 ADVANCE // $15 DAY OF SHOW
6PM DOORS // 8PM SHOWTIME
What’s that Sound? is the first edition of a Twin Cities music series (Mondays in November) co-curated by Ivan and Chris Cunningham. It is a multi-generational, multi-genre musical feast provided by some of our community’s most fearless, accomplished, and non-traditional improvisers, composers, and musicians. Icehouse has been the most progressive and important area music venue for many years— and players, listeners, eaters, and revelers all know why. Come listen.
1st Set:
Martin Dosh: drums, electronics // Chris Cunningham: Warr Guitar, baritone guitar, guitar // Kip Jones: violin and electronics
2nd Set:
Ryann Daisy Swimmer: guitar and electronics // Astrid Hubbard Flynn: flute and electronics
CHRIS & IVAN CUNNINGHAM are our Monday Night Jazz Residents and Guest Curators for the month of November!
Over a career stretching all the way from the Pleistocene era, Chris Cunningham has collaborated on stages and in studios with Marianne Faithfull, The Contortions, John Lurie, Jeff Buckley, Haiti’s Boukman Eksperyans, Turkey’s Omar Farouk, Ireland’s Katell Keineg and Gavin Friday, Anton Fier, John Zorn, Marshall Crenshaw, Joan Osborne, John Medeski, Richie Havens, and many others. He has released two critically acclaimed solo albums, and his Twin Cities groups include Superbus Maximus (currently), Fall of the House of Usher, Mississippi Peace, Coloring Time, Improvestra, Improvised Explosive Device, to name just a few. His main repository of recorded musical content is at fothou.com, and he dutifully serves the people as a professor and confessor of Sound Arts at Minneapolis College.
Ivan Cunningham is Minneapolis based composer, performer, and band-leader. Ivan performs with Mr Zipp, Freaque, the Charlie Lincoln Quartet, and Superbus Maximus. Ivan leads the Ivan Cunningham Quintet, and will soon be releasing and album of his own compositions featuring musicians from many different corners of the Twin Cities music scene. You may find him in a corner himself, sulking, waiting for something to happen. Usually nothing does, but he waits anyway. Time is running out, however.
Martin Dosh has been making independent music out of his basement in Minneapolis, and around the world, for 20 years. He first came to acclaim with his self-titled debut on Anticon in 2003. As he continued making Dosh records, of which there are many, he also joined forces with Andrew Bird, whom he played and recorded with from 2005-2014. His live performances are often solo, combining drums, samplers, synths and Rhodes. One of the earliest pioneers of live looping, he continues to record and perform, layering melodies and drones over acoustic and electronic beats. His latest LP, Tomorrow 1972, features Jeff Parker and Dan Bitney (Tortoise), Bird, Mike Lewis (Bon Iver, Happy Apple), Tobacco, The Nunnery, and many others. He has opened shows for the likes of Sylvan Esso, Tune-Yards, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Makaya McCraven and Death Grips, to name just a few. HIs music is hard to pin down: a genre-less, percussive hybrid of electronic, hip-hop and jazz.
Kip Jones (violin) is known for his work with genre-defying string quartet ETHEL, and his ebullient solo performances in an experimental folk style. A modern musical troubadour, he’s performed at scores of eclectic venues such as Ecuador’s Ministry of Economic Inclusion, Tirana’s Liceu Artistik “Jordan Misja,” two miles inside Chom Ong Tai cave in Laos, the summer homes of nomadic Mongolian herders, and platforms of most subway systems in North America. As a composer, his work has been commissioned by including the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra and A Far Cry. A native of Minnesota, Kip earned his degree in Violin Performance from the Berklee College of Music.
Ryann Daisy Swimmer is an American composer, performer, and curator from Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose musical ethos focuses on the in-between, the blurred lines, and the insignificant. As a composer, Daisy brings her knowledge of theory-heavy composition and instinctive popular music together to create music that could be categorized as classically-influenced experimental music, “indie-classical”, or something else entirely.
The same philosophy is used in her curation and performing, which focus heavily on DIY aesthetics. Performances of her works for guitar and pedalboard are more suited for basements, living rooms, and guerrilla shows than traditional concert halls. Daisy has worked with local labels Corrector Records and Æther Tapes, written for and performed with Zeitgeist new music ensemble, and was the 2021 recipient of the American Composers Forum’s Minnesota Music Creator Award.
Astrid Hubbard Flynn (b. 1999, they/them) is a composer, flutist, vocalist and scholar. Their mediums include staff notation, fixed and live electronic setups, and improvisation based in text and graphics. Throughout their work, astrid is interested in facilitating collaborative scenarios and imagining alternative frameworks for music-making. In 2022, astrid received a B.A. in Music from Brown University, where they have studied composition with Wang Lu, Kristina Warren and Eric Nathan. Outside Brown, they have also studied with Libby Larsen, Abbie Betinis and Edie Hill. As a music educator, astrid has designed and facilitated discussion sections on popular music, and co-organized concerts of student music at Brown. Their work has been performed by Zeitgeist, YarnWire and the Kukuruz Quartet, and presented by IntCE's Ensemble Evolution, Fresh Squeezed Opera, the Source Song Festival, and the Atlantic Music Festival. astrid lives on Dakota land in so-called Saint Paul, Minnesota.