David Borgo, accomplished saxophonist, improvisor, and professor at is joined by Fullbright Scholar Pedro Sollero from Brazil and electronic musician Tornike from Georgia (the country). Together they have been experimenting with new electro-acoustic sounds, performing with a wind-synth, modified guitars, and the implementation of live coding. This concert at Public Square will be their first live public performance as a group. 

Christopher Adler will also be joining this bill. Professor of music and southeast Asian studies at USD will be debuting a new piece from the khaen, a southeast Asian mouth-organ that Adler is one of the few living masters of. Watching him perform and manipulate this rare instrument is a spectacle worth seeing.

Opening the concert will be Lexi Pulido and Julien Cantelm, a first call vocalist and drummer respectively, will be playing original and improvised music. The duo will be followed by ambient music experimentalist Johann Fuchs who live samples folk recordings and instruments his practice.

Particle FM’s Who? radio will be DJing the opening of the show.