08/17/2026
September events preview!
1-2) Rachel Beetz/Wilfrido Terrazas (solo & duo) + Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells 9/3 8PM at The Perch
Flutists Rachel Beetz and Wilfrido Terrazas will present their latest experimental improvisational insights. Wilfrido Terrazas (Willy/he/él) is a flutist, improviser, composer, and educator based in San Diego, originally from Ensenada, Mexico. His work explores the edges of notation, improvisation, and collective creativity, Composer and flutist, Rachel Beetz experiences sound as touch. Her music “suggests the action of supernatural entities,” (The Quietus), while also being a “soundtrack for a cooking show turned film noir” (Best of Experimental Bandcamp). Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is an American bassist and sound sculptor with a career spanning over four decades. He played with the influential German band Embryo and has collaborated with artists like Bob Belden, Tony Scott, and Karl Berger.
3-4) Thor & Friends + Hour (record release show) 9/9 8PM at Maas.
Polymath percussionist Thor Harris inaugurated Thor & Friends in the autumn of 2015 after five years of touring as the percussionist of iconic avant-rock ensemble Swans. The project is intended as a vehicle for experimentation with the conceptual vocabulary of American Minimalism collaborating with a rotating cast of Austin-based musicians. Immediate, passionate, occasionally dissonant, open, open, open, and very often sublime, Ease the Work is an undeniably grand statement from the instrumental ensemble Hour. Conceived by composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Michael Cormier-O’Leary (Friendship, 2nd Grade, Dear Life Records) and delivered live by nine musicians.
5-6) Bryan Day/Toshi Makihara duo & Del Rossi Trio 9/23 8PM at Brickbat Books
Bryan Day is a sound artist, instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he reimagines them as constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late 1990s, he has built over a hundred sound devices. 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. "The Del Rossi Trio, composed of droning harmonium, cello and bass clarinet, played two long, meditative pieces: this was eyes-closed music, drifting slowly in and out of consonance" - Midbrow Philly
7) Dialouges 8: Kaethe Hostetter (part of Fringe Festival 2026). 9/26 8PM at Studio 34.
Dialogues: A Conversation and Performance is a series of events in which we invite someone to discuss their creative process and present an aspect or aspects of their work. For the eighth edition we present violinist and composer Kaethe Hostetter. Having spent more than two decades immersed in Ethiopian music — including eleven years living in Addis Ababa as well as leading the highly acclaimed band Qwanqwa, Kaethe is now performing a solo show called Woradj Alle (Impressions of Ethiopia) which is also the title of her debut solo album.
8) Mir Naqibul Islam - Tabla Waves: A New Sound 9/30 8PM at The Rotunda (Free).
Tabla Waves: A New Sound is a contemporary reimagining of the traditional tabla solo. Rooted in the centuries-old rhythmic traditions of North Indian classical music, Mir Naqibul Islam explores the tabla through new sonic perspectives. At its core, the tabla recital remains the foundation, while sound, rhythm, and technology open new possibilities for how this timeless instrument can be heard. The collaborators are Mir Naqibul Islam: Tabla, Srikar Ayyalasomayajula: Harmonium, Mehrnam Rastegari: Kamancheh & Randall Dunn: Synthesizer
More info and tickets at the link below, see you there!
https://www.firemuseumpresents.com/upcoming
