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Mind on Fire has assemble a large ensemble of 15 to play large music by Julius Eastman, Louis Andriessen, and Baltimore’s Bashi Rose. 

Mind on Fire is a chamber orchestra and presenting organization here in Baltimore, putting on wild variety shows of esoterica focused on new music making alongside all sorts of vivid, ephemeral arts.

Tom Boram will perform experimental music on the sanctuary’s massive organ. 

Tom is a long-time custodian of the High Zero Festival of Experimental Music, and he is a monster keyboardist, visual artist, story teller, and pedagogue.

And Kelly Xio will recite their big, heart-piercing poetry from the altar. 

Kelly is an organizer of poets, an archivist of the scene, an empathy engine, and one of the greatest living writers and interpretors of our generation.

Come out and experience this vast night with us. September 29 & 30, 8:00pm at Lovely Lane United Methodist Church. 

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It’s our first super big show of the season at one of our favorite venues in town: Current Space. It’s an evening about place!

Mind on Fire will perform two new pieces by two young composers. We’ll be premiering a brand new work of electroacoustic music by Bobby Ge, about his final weeks living in Shanghai and how you can never fully return home. And we’ll be playing a new work by composer Sebastian Suarez-Solis, an exploration of imaginary space in a huge scrolling score on display not only to the ensemble but also the audience. An adventure with friends!

The night will start with a master of the divine theatrical mystery, Laure Drogoul. You may have seen Laure as the avatar of soap bubbles at an abstract dry cleaner or as an embodiment of many many dead animals in an installation of fur and tea. You may have seen her giant head with video eyes. Or maybe something completely different…

The night will end with Ami Dang, performing music from her most recent, expansive album, “The Living World Demands,” with a brand new, stellar band of luminaries. Musicians from Mind on Fire will join the ensemble to add even more depth to an already twisting root system of extra-musical sonic vibrations.

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Mind on Fire presents...

"SAWUD RAYAY" a new symphony by Jamal Moore

also featuring Nik Francis, Ada Pinkston, and The Soft Pink Truth

Jamal Moore is a radical multi-instrumentalist and brilliant composer. Hailing from Baltimore City, he is a rigorous pedagogue and adventurous researcher in music and aesthetics. His new symphony, "Sawud Rayay" shares his virtuosic exploration of the cosmos. The title translates to 'Black Sun,' the eternal nucleus of our star, around which all planets orbit in constant change.

Nik Francis is a DC-based percussionist and composer, whose vase fabric of work expands from quiet meditation to extreme exhultation. All of his work splits time into hyper energized chain reactions.

Ada Pinkston is a powerful somatic artist and founder of Labbodies, a haven and evolving workshop for performance artists in in and around Baltimore. Highly decorated and recognizaed her work is expansive and varied, including her embodied reconsideration of monuments, "Landmarked."

The Soft Pink Truth is the solo project of Drew Daniel, half of the acclaimed electronic duo Matmos. The Soft Pink Truth is the intersection of the electric avant-garde, disco, and all sorts of esoteric sounds that fall outside the bounds of Daniel's other work. This will also mark the release of his newest record, "Is It Going To Get any Deeper Than This?"

TWO NIGHTS!!

October 21 - 7:30pm door/8:00pm show

October 22 - 7:00pm door/7:30pm show

at

The Crown (Upstairs)

1910 N Charles St; Baltimore, MD 21218

$10 - $30 sliding scale

Watch Online for Free Here (live during the show): Twitch

(and we have gone all out with this stream too, y’all)

Get on the waitlist for in person tickets here: Universe

“One of the best music composers in Baltimore.” (Abdu Ali, The Face)

Infinity Knives is “the unique Baltimore polymath who made ‘Dear, Sudan,’ one of the year’s strangest, most exciting albums,” (Spin) and he is the composer at the heart of Mind on Fire’s next show. In a project spanning 6 years of composition and 18 months of orchestration, we will present an hour-long suite taken from the core of of Infinity Knives two-part, 2019 epic, “In the Mouth of Sadness” and “Dear, Sudan.” Employing a chamber orchestra of 16 players, live electronics, and many of the original MCs and vocalists, we will perform in front of a live audience at The Voxel, Baltimore’s newest black box tech theater pushing the space to its full capabilities for light and sound. 

Additionally this event will be streamed and mixed live for anyone unable to join us in person.

“Infinity Knives is a project that welcomes us into the mind and myriad inspirations of Tariq Ravelomanana. Each of the artist’s eclectic tracks are a singular sound collage, mingling moods, from light and airy to murky and otherworldly.” (Baltimore Magazine)

Featuring:

Infinity Knives - Nicolas Ratany - Will Ryerson - Brian Ennals - Josh Stokes - Allison Clendaniel and many others…

LIVE @ The Voxel (9 W 25th St; Baltimore, MD 21218)

Doors 7:30pm EST - Show 8:00pm EST

$10/15/20/30* (tickets are limited!)

ONLINE @ twitch.tv/mofbaltimore

Show 8:00pm EST

$10/15 suggested Donation 

All who come to this show in person must wear a mask and must present either proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative covid test from the past 48 hours. No exceptions.

*If our entry fees are cost prohibitive, know that no one will be turned away. If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us at music@mindonfire.org