Yardwork Presents, alongside KUAA 99.9fm, Ghost Canyon & Onestraw are presenting a weekend of music and art throughout Salt Lake City.
A weekend of free improvisation, folk, ambient, jazz, performance art, modular, collaboration and community, from national touring artists and Salt Lake City based artists alike.

Friday, July 11th @ Listening Room at Pierpont
327 w Pierpont Ave suite #202
doors @ 7pm
suggested $10 donations

Trē
trē seguritan abalos is a Pittsburgh, PA based Filipina-American sound artist  whose improvisations diverge into soundscapes inflected with flutes, field recordings, and text. Collaborating frequently across forms and spaces, trē’s interests revolve around unraveling or reimagining place / placelessness, belonging and embodiment.”

Trē’s work is vast and wide, from hosting an open improvisation series, scoring films, to collaborations as close as neighbors, to playing alongside Susie Ibarra, David Bernabo, DITTOCRUSH, Adam Kantz, and Tashi Dorji.

Nora Mal
is a Salt Lake City based multidisciplinary artists specializing in dance, film making and experimental music. Nora also has a vast work of collaboration, scoring film and dance works both locally and nationally. Nora has recently performed and presented works with 801 salon, Desert Opera Experimental, Experimental Sound Studio Of Chicago & Light Scatter Press. to name a small few. Alongside these works Nora can also be found playing out in bands Red Bennie’s, Lord Vox, Sympathy Pain & Hetaera.

Dante LeRae
an SLC based sound artist and explorer. Maybe most widely known as a modular synth artist, Dante’s musics range is wide, everything from guitar driven rock, ambient, “lo-fi” to producing hip hop records and facilitating and co-curating an monthly concert series Sunday Drip. “Textural electronic music shaped by waves of shadow and light. Rooted like stone, shifting like tide. Music as a ritual of feeling. A grounded practice of presence and connection.”

Sun Swept
Sun Swept, is pastoral, heady music that travels through layers of sparkling ethereal flutes and beds of droning synths. Different textures from spacious reverb to granular flecks are extracted from the flute through electronic processing. Each composition is based on a loose structure for improvisation and is different each time when performed live. Recordings were all captured at home. The music on their most recent album Germinations is serene but with an experimental and even noisy edge at times. Some pieces are joyful and lively and others are slow and contemplative. The album is inspired by the Rocky Mountains, alpine lakes, clouds, wind, breath, and classic new age flute tapes.

Barry Archie Johnson
Solo instrumentalists navigate a free and rambling road through an imaginative, oneiric wilderness. So much expressed without singing/words, a direct power line to the psyche, open for interpretation and brimming with melancholy, joy, and somber reflection. The annals of solo guitar music, much like solo piano, can tap into these almost subliminal lines of communication. The new album/debut LP from Los Angeles by way of Ohio guitarist/flautist/songwriter Barry Archie Johnson sings out as a startling and gorgeous new voice in guitar centered landscapes.

Barry’s playing has the depth and patience of Segovia, Will Ackerman, Roy Montgomery, and Mary Halvorson but not only does he have his own voice, something alone which is almost intangibly improbable in the world of guitar music, he has a method of composition that defies easy emotional assignment.

Cold Cabin East
Is the “ambient jazz” trio of Hot House West members Taku Ishikawa, Georgi Petrov & Tony Ellison. Leaning into the worlds between trad, swing, ambient and exploratory music, rooted in jazz. Taku, one of Salt Lake City’s most unique percussionist is joined by Salt Lake City stalwart of the jazz scene here Georgi Petrov on guitar and Tony Ellison on keys. Georgi plays with tasteful virtuosity, bringing in influence from around the world, jazz, western, ambient, etc. Tony is a studied pianist, bringing his flavor of classical, swing and jazz to the blend.

Asher Bay:
an experimental electronic music composer based in Salt Lake City. His sound ranges from otherworldly ambient atmospheres to skittering percussive textures. It pulsates and breathes as if it’s 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.

Lisa DeFrance
Will be performing a new piece entitled: Paper Cowboy. Joined by oft collaborators Kevin Van Yserloo (SF) & Jason Glover (Seattle) using violin, present materials, soundscaping, and interaction  to create new works for the moment, of the moment.

“As I have done for over 30 years, I prefer to work with materials that are at hand in both performance and design. Somehow this idea of being present to what is, creates a path to working, where judgement can be suspended. Trust and non-judgement allow for a kind of goodwill to preside; a condition integral to relating. Collaboration has always been a driving force.”

Lisa DeFrance (1967, Billings, MT, USA) is a textile & performance artist. Principal in the performance art group/project Tripod for 12 years with performance/happenings throughout the US & Europe - a group founded in 1994 in Seattle, WA. with Seymour King and Jason Glover. She received a BS in Apparel Design from OSU in Corvallis, OR (1990). Later moving to Seattle to SLC in 2003, she received her Master of Arts in Teaching from Westminster College (2010). 

Randall Pinson
Composer, Editor, and Videographer Native to Salt Lake City. Though Classically trained as a Pianist for 12 years, I left my instrument at 17 to chase pro skiers through the Wasatch backcountry with my camera and create unique visual narratives inspired by my time there. At 20 years old I was inspired to return to music and briefly studied composition at the University of Utah before leaving academia to continue learning on my own. During 2022 I apprenticed with artist, director and architect Anson Fogel, using a synthesis of my disciplines to program my own show on Anson's world class interface: Locus Studios. Today I tell people I am a story teller, capable to compose for orchestra or edit for cinema. my experience in multiple disciplines gives me a unique perspective wherever I am working.  

We couldn’t be more honored and excited to host this event and get pair these artists together, for a singular weekend sure to inspire.