tcrps prsnts

an evening of improvised music

featuring

MICHAEL FOSTER'S THE GHOST
[Michael Foster on saxophones, John Moran on bass, Joey Sullivan on drums: NYC]

with opening sets by

GAMBLE / ABALOS / WEIDENHOF

and

FAGNILLI / CHIN / DITTOCRUSH / WILLIS

all-ages

doors 7pm

$15 suggested donation

no one turned away for lack of funds

BANTHA TEA BAR
5002 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224


MICHAEL FOSTER

Michael Foster is a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist utilizing extensive preparations of his saxophone, augmenting it with amplification, objects, balloons, drum heads, vibrators, tapes, and samples as a method of subverting and queering the instrument’s history and traditional roles.

The Ghost was formed as both a tribute to my disparate influences in free jazz, harsh noise, and the gay underground community, and as a middle finger to the suffocating heteronormative establishment of improvised music. "Vanished Pleasures" stands as a new direction for this project, utilizing overt compositional frameworks to convey the anxieties of aging, sexual freedom, and the power relations inherent in the sax-bass-drums format. The title comes from Derek Jarman's "The Garden," referring to the vanished pleasures of untethered, youthful sexuality and the friends whose lives were cut short.

http://michaelfostermusic.com/

https://michaelfoster.bandcamp.com/album/vanished-pleasures

https://soundcloud.com/michael-foster-1