Jon Mueller
Tom Lecky

Saturday, Nov 2nd 2025
Utah Museum Of Contemporary Art
doors @ 7pm
suggested 10$ donations

Jon Mueller’s singular performance idiom is an awe-inspiring display of elegant athleticism, preternatural focus, brute restraint, and ecstatic, monastic reverie. Paired with Tom Lecky's photographs, it becomes a deliberate focus on form, shape and detail. It requires and demands a state of inner quietude from witnesses. Yet, from this seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound.

​​An apt reference point resides within the broad, decades-spanning catalog of Table of the Elements. Like Tony Conrad’s surging Outside the Dream Syndicate, the aural and conceptual headwinds are real, but the perceived affronts of provocation are not. These works are not endurance challenges, nor are they threadbare minimalist upholstery. They are not obstacles. They are invitations. Within their simplicity and formalism await a sympathetic repose, a comfort. These are gestures of generosity.

Mueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago, and singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York. A prolific performer, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada, England, Europe and Japan.

In addition to his solo work, Mueller has collaborated and performed with groups such as Mind Over Mirrors, Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees, and Pele. He has also worked with artists including Olivia Block, Aaron Turner, Faith Coloccia, Dawn Springer, Chris Hefner, Jason Kahn, Hal Rammel, Asmus Tietchens, Z’EV, Rhys Chatham, Jarboe, James Plotkin, Duane Pitre, and Raymond Dijkstra. He has released music on renowned labels such as Table of the Elements, Type Recordings, Important Records, Taiga Records, SIGE Records, and American Dreams.
www.rhythmplex.com IG: @jonmueller

Tom Lecky has worked in photography, music (as Hallock Hill), the book arts, prose and poetry writing, and literary criticism. His creative work concentrates on memory, place, and environment, the work of the imagination, perception, and the intersections of abstraction and representation. He often interweaves appropriated texts and images with his own, evoking a conversation with the history of book design and illustration.

These creative pursuits are linked to Tom’s career as an internationally recognized expert in the field of rare and antiquarian books and manuscripts. He has worked in the auction world – notably in a 17-year run as a specialist and Head of Christie’s New York Books and Manuscripts Department – and as an advisor to collectors and institutions.He is the owner of Riverrun Books, and the founder of the rare book and manuscript appraisal and advisory firm Lecky Art Group. www.tomlecky.com
IG: @tom.lecky

Sam Prekopp
M. Sage
(visuals by Aud Visuals)

@ Utah Museum Of Contemporary Art
20 s West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT
Saturday, Sept 27th
doors @ 7pm
Suggested $10 donation

Sam Prekop
Perhaps most widely known from his work as front man for the legendary art ops ensemble The Sea & Cake, Prekop has been crafting soundscapes, scores, and artworks all his own along the way. “Sam Prekop’s work over the last 30 years, whether created primarily on his guitar or on his modular synth, is consistent in evolution. Prekop’s singular blend of melody, impressionistic, singular sound of The Sea and Cake. Prekop’s exploration of modular synthesis and electronic atmospheres has come into its own. His honed skills have crafted sounds that are instantly recognizable, his pieces express real movement. Harmonies bloom with granular detail and through his careful work he is able to convey emotion. Prekop’s inquisitive eye as an artist focuses on uncovering beauty and complexity within simplicity.” A legend by all means, whether it’s his work The Sea & Cake, his myriad collaborations with the likes of Laraaji, Jeff Parker, John Mcintire, etc. Prekop has not only created his own musical language, but inspired the next generation of artists to step into their own.

M. Sage

There are few handfuls of artists that you can tell right away who is playing just by the way they play. M. Sage is one of these rare artists. Among many things, a musician, an intermedia artist, recording engineer, producer, publisher, teacher, partner and parent, Since the early 2010’s, between Colorado and Chicago, he’s rendered projects with playful, nuanced velocity and a completist sensibility, assembling an idiosyncratic catalog of experimental studio music that sprawls in various directions. Creating entire works with each new record and performance. Sage makes works to be enveloped by. Whether solo, a part of ambient-jazz quartet Fuubutsushi, or in any of the many, many collaborative efforts, Sage’s playing stands distinct, introspective, immersive and something to be basked in.

Angela Autumn, M.Horton Smith, Daniel Young
@ Cityhome Collective
327 w Pierpont Ave Suite 202
Salt Lake City, UT
Doors @ 7:00pm
suggested $10 donations.

Barry Archie Johnson, Sun Swept, Cold Cabin East
@ UMOCA
20 s West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT
July 12th
Doors @ 7:00
Suggested $10 donations

Derek Monypeny w/ Kevin Corcoran
F&P500

@ Modern West Arts Gallery
412 s 700 w
Sugested 10$ donations

Adam Lion ~ Offering “a tone so pure it is almost a sine-wave” (The Wire) Adam Lion is a percussionist/vibraphonist investigating enabling constraint, acoustics, repetition, surprise and perception. His experimental performances blur acoustic space, creating oppurtunities for new sonic frameworks to naturally emerge. Within this process new realities grow, encouraging listeners to investigate the hidden potential of reimagined sound. Based in Los Angeles, CA his work has been featured in The New York Times, Pitchfork Media, Artforum Magazine and Bandcamp Daily.
His new vibraphone album “When A Line Bends” is a repetitious study on the possibilities of acoustic phenomena. Sound floods the room with music one would only expect from amplification or supplementary electronics. Bars are bowed for sustained durations producing an effect similar to a sine tone, and textural adjustments occur spontaneously. Slowly evolving ostinatos result in pulsating, dissonant overtones whose frequency beatings bring about scintillating clouds of polyrhythms. Adam explores the vibraphone hoping to surprise himself

Asher Bay -
a Salt Lake City based experimental electronic music composer. His sound ranges from otherworldly, ambient, atmospheres to skittering percussive textures. It pulsates and breathes as if alive. Using Max/MSP he builds algorithmic systems that generate unpredictable, ever evolving sonic environments. His work explores the tension between structure and chaos, aiming to draw listeners into trance states and subtly distort their perception of time.

SaLaCiUASG -

Is the string ensemble of local music legend, Dave Payne. Best know as the frontperson for art rock ensemble, Red Bennies. Dave has been a stalwart of the music scene. It’s rare to find a bill that Dave doesn’t have a hand on any given night in Salt Lake City. From teaching music, to hosting a weekly series showcasing local acts and giving platform for artists to try out new ideas. Dave has help up the avant-garde in Salt Lake City for decades and continues to do so. Here he brings a handful of students along with him to perform pieces he composed for strings. Dave has carved out his own musical..is it language? Is it ethos? Is it an entire unique sonic existence?

Monday, May 19th, 2025
Sunhouse
567 e 7th Ave
Salt Lake City, UT
Doors @ 7pm
Suggested $10 donations.