10/09/2026
Avant Pro Musica Presents: Jessica Pavone + Kelly Bray + Julie Bodian, Wednesday, Oct 21st, 7pm
Kelly Bray is a trumpet player and improvisor whose solo electroacoustic music combines elements of ambient music, noise, and free improvisation. Appearing on bills with claire rousay and evicshen in 2025/2026, her performances have been described as "a tour de force of electroacoustic trumpet pyrotechnics". Her solo electroacoustic album, "pyromania", released in early 2026.
In addition to her electroacoustic work, Kelly Bray is known as a regular on the East Coast free improvisation and free jazz scene. She has performed and collaborated with the likes of Joe Morris, Nick Neuberg, Brittany Karlson, Alan Braufman, among others. In May of 2026, she released "striations", a duo record with pianist Jacob Hiser, who stated that "she can tune into the exact frequency of anyone she collaborates with and steer the music in any direction".
Curator, Raub Roy is a multidisciplinary sound artist, organizer, and technician working in experimental music, electroacoustic performance, field recording, and site-responsive sound. Performing under the names Horaflora and Scy1e, he has spent the past two decades building immersive listening situations from humble materials: radios, small speakers, cassette players, resonant rooms, reverb, feedback, and semi-autonomous sound-making systems.
At Epsilon Spires, Roy has become involved not only as an artist, but as a frequent technical collaborator and enthusiastic caretaker of the building’s unusual sonic possibilities. His work there has included practical experiments in making the space more adaptable — from drive-in-style radio transmission as a way of improving dialogue clarity in a highly reverberant room, to unrealized proposals for treating the sanctuary itself as a kind of live reverb chamber that could be routed into smaller, more intimate spaces elsewhere in the building.
Roy hosts Avant Pro Musica at Epsilon Spires as an artist-led concert series for adventurous music, sound art, and related performance. While presented within the orbit of Epsilon’s larger cultural life, the series is independently shaped by Roy’s own interests, relationships, and ongoing love of the space. It offers a flexible home for events that may arrive by word of mouth, on short notice, or from artists moving through less visible networks of experimental music — performances that might be too informal, too underground, or simply too immediate to fit neatly into a conventional presenting model.
Avant Pro Musica is, in this sense, both a concert series and a listening practice: a way of welcoming strange, intimate, searching, and occasionally unclassifiable work into a building already known for its adventurous programming and singular acoustics. Those interested are encouraged to stay tuned; some of the most worthwhile evenings may announce themselves quietly.
