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People's Music Supply

People's Music Supply is an artist-led platform for creative music and community-building.

10/05/2026

The myths are music

$10 to 20 NOTAFLOF
6:30 doors
7:30 Show

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Toshi Makihara- Percussion
David Forlano- Electronics

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Aaron Pond- Daxophone, Shofar, Voice
Will Tober- Contrabass/Voice
Mekhi Gladden- Double Reeds, Voice
Liv Johnson- Voice, Autoharp

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BIO

Toshi Makihara pursues non-idiomatic free improvised music using percussion and found objects / sound sites. Makihara studied drums and improvisation with Sabu Toyozumi and Butoh with the master Kazuo Ohno in Tokyo. His approach to free improvisation is founded on the process of “Becoming the Sound” without seeking any particular accomplishment.

David Forlano is a multi-disciplinary performance, sound and visual artist. His commissioned sound design supported dance a theater throughout the 90’s in Philadelphia. He was often found teaming with percussionist Toshi Makihara on many performances as well as their own collaborations in free improvisation. After relocating to Santa Fe in 2005 he took a 10 year break from all performance and sound work.

David has performed with Trey Gunn, Chris Jonas, Jack Wright, Fred Frith, and many others. He currently holds regular sessions in his studio with a variety of musicians and ensembles and often performs with these groups. David is one of the cofounders of sandboxmusic.org , a monthly series presenting new creative music to the Santa Fe area. The series is dedicated to providing a forum for music that utilizes creative new techniques, ranging from electronic, experimental acoustic, new jazz, modern classical, and more. The series features local musicians as well as touring artists.

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09/30/2026

Towards the new ways of being

$15 to 30
14 person participant cap.
Advance tickets highly recommended

In this introductory class, we will explore Soundpainting, an interdisciplinary composing sign language created by Walter Thompson. Originally developed as a way to shape large ensemble improvised music groups in New York’s downtown scene, Soundpainting has gradually grown into a large and internationally used system of hand signs for creating spontaneous compositions with musicians, actors, dancers, and visual artists. In this workshop, we will learn basic signs to construct layered compositions in real time using the improvisational offerings from the ensemble as our building blocks. Our approach will be hands-on, practical, and flexible, and all participants will act as both performers and composers/Soundpainters.

About the instructor

Sam Day Harmet is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, producer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. A musician of diverse tastes, Sam's projects range from deconstructive folk and jazz, to free improvisation, to left field electronic music, to Soundpainting and beyond. He has performed in Soundpainting groups with Walter Thompson for over 15 years in the US, UK, France, and Spain. His own Sam Day Harmet Soundpainting Collective frequently performs in experimental arts spaces around New York.

09/14/2026

FREE!

We are presenting a series of free, en-plain air public performances which tap into the unique musical forms of Creative Music (a genre rooted in Philadelphia history through John Coltrane and Sun Ra) and Free Improvisation. These performances will be at Christ Church Gardens- October Wednesdays at 5:30PM- 20 N American St.

10/7- aaron_pond_scum Julius Masri Mayford Jeremy

10/14- Bert Harris Rob Paul Thomas Patteson

10/21- Liz Faure KooF I.B.

10/28- Max Glazier Pete Dennis Max Engleman

09/11/2026

People’s Music Supply in collaboration with the Living Signal is presenting a weekly series of curated performances followed by an Open Improvisation Lab (OIL). Opening performances will feature some of the region’s best talent across a wide variety of styles generated in situ. The OIL portion will see participating audience members formed into groups via chance procedures, divine inspiration, and bespoke sorting systems for the purposes of extracting music from the unique temporal aspects of the ether.

All Levels | All Backgrounds | All Disciplines generated in the moment.

7pm doors

7:30 Performance

8:15 Lab begins

Admission- All donations go towards the opening performances, respecting our host space, and making sure the series is sustainable.

$0 to $10 for lab participants

$10 to 20 for audience

Sober Space

4311 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia PA

Participants are encouraged to share amps, share rides, and coordinate with us for unique backline needs. We encourage everyone to read through Pittsburgh Sound Preserve Guidelines guidelines for their OIL (https://www.pghsoundpreserve.org/oil), we will adopt our own guidelines in due time.

09/01/2026

6:30 doors
7:30 Show

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Majid Araim- Mandolin/Voice
Carlos Santiago- Violin

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Sonali Singh- Bassoon
Ry Noss- Bass Trombone/Flute
Sylvia Winch- Trombone & Melodica

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Ricki Weidenhof- Cello & Electronics

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08/31/2026

Ann Adachi trio- Ann Adachi, Melinda Rice, and Jessica Brown

Improvised trio exploring the creation of space through the interplay of movement and sound. Finding one another through the merging and diverging of lines, meeting and fleeting. Digging into the more delicate and subtle places that improvisation can take us.

Pure Being- Thomas Patteson and Audrey Trout

Squash Blossoms- Sonali Singh, Mekhi Gladden, Jessica Brown, Andrew Gioannetti, Aaron Pond

Squash Blossoms is an improvising woodwind ensemble composed of multi-instrumentalists and active members of Philadelphia’s Peoples Music Supply. This quintet pairs the classical sounds anticipated of chamber music with more experimental influences found in contemporary improvised genres, presenting its audience with a lively journey through sounds, expected and surprising, consonant and dissonant.

08/17/2026

Free class for Fleisher members. (Joining is very affordable). Multi-disciplinary improvisational sign language led by Sam Day Harmet.

Sign up Link in bio

In this four-week class, we will explore Soundpainting, an interdisciplinary composing sign language created by Walter Thompson. Originally developed as a way to shape large ensemble improvised music groups in New York’s downtown scene, Soundpainting has gradually grown into a large and internationally used system of hand signs for creating spontaneous compositions with musicians, actors, dancers, and visual artists. In this workshop, we will learn basic signs to construct layered compositions in real time using the improvisational offerings from the ensemble as our building blocks. Our approach will be hands-on, practical, and flexible, and all participants will act as both performers and composers/Soundpainters.

For this class the instructor is hoping to curate a group of students with a variety of roles--after registering students should complete this Google Form to indicate if you are a musician, actor, dancer, or visual artist.

Special Notes
This is an in-person class. Please review our Safety Policies and Community Guidelines.

Required Supplies
All supplies are included.

Instructor
Sam Harmet

Sam Day Harmet is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, producer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. A musician of diverse tastes, Sam's projects range from deconstructive folk and jazz, to free improvisation, to left field electronic music, to Soundpainting and beyond. He has performed in Soundpainting groups with Walter Thompson for over 15 years in the US, UK, France, and Spain. His own Sam Day Harmet Soundpainting Collective frequently performs in experimental arts spaces around New York.

http://soundpainting.org

06/18/2026

The many transformations of breath. Reconstituting the very fabric of music.

Improvised music The Perch Music & Arts Workshop @ the Emerald Wildflower Garden

Flyer by Jessica Brown & Aaron Pond
Slide 2- OG cover from Tom Buckner in Space Trio
Slide 3- James Ilgenfritz photo by Peter Ganushkin
Slide 4 & 5 - resonant edge photo by Jessica Brown
Slide 6- tom Kraines

06/17/2026

The truth has never been so affordable .

06/03/2026

Honoring the solstice with a special quintet edition of Watson's Great Blue Heron. Watson is a venerable bass clarinetist with extensive training from the great Marshall Allen.

Opening is Aaron Pond (solo) performing improvised nigunim.

Presented with Meantime

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Philadelphia, PA

Website

http://peoplesmusicsupply.org/

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