Described by the Guardian as “filled with a wild, distorted energy,” and by The Wire as “rare and rewarding,” the music of bassist, composer and experimental bagpiper MAT MUNTZ imbues the volatile and the bizarre with an expressive, human immediacy. Since arriving in Berkeley in 2022, Mat has formed collaborations with great musicians from across the Bay Area. This trio with saxophonist KASEY KNUDSEN and drummer SCOTT AMENDOLA is one such project, highlighting the compositions of all three players in a highly flexible, dynamic, and reactive context.

MATIAS E.A. is a sound and visual artist from Oakland specializing in long form free improvisation, primarily using electric guitar to translate and magnify tactile gesture. Their music explores extreme density and dynamics, intersections of timbre and pitch, generative rhetorical structures, and the discovery of common language through improvisation. They have played with experimental punk bands and free improv groups. Matias joins local musicians ARI BROWN (trumpet), JORDAN GLENN (percussion), and SAM LEFEBVRE (drums) for a set of improvised music.