Tulsa Artist Fellowship programming is free and open to all
On this evening of performances at Flagship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Foxy Digitalis present guitarist Marisa Anderson with Oklahoma-based musicians Country Wifi (Nathan Alexander Pape and Brad E. Rose) and Robbie Wing.
Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her deeply original work applies elements of minimalism, electronic music, drone and 20th century classical music to compositions based on blues, jazz, gospel and country music, re-imagining the landscape of American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, while NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’. Her work has been featured in Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, SPIN, Pitchfork, the BBC, and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who, and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Anderson's latest solo album, Still, Here, was released September 23, 2022 on Thrill Jockey Records. For more information, visit marisaandersonmusic.com.
Country Wifi is the intermittent and unreliable duo of Nathan Alexander Pape and Brad E. Rose, experimental musicians who are fathers and too strapped for time to tour. Fusing a strange blend of improvised folk, noise, and jazz, Country Wifi explores sonic spaces between the in-between spaces to unearth a winding stream of ageless aural narratives.
Nathan Alexander Pape is a musician, mathematician, acoustician, and educator who, after spending most of the last decade in Brooklyn, NY, is currently residing just outside of Tulsa, OK ― surrounded by oak trees and a host of wildlife. His solo practice focuses on the sonic expansion of the steel-string acoustic guitar through improvisation, generative strategies, and minimalist structures/processes. Pape's previous releases include Ground Air on Astral Spirits (a duo record with saxophonist Patrick Breiner of Battle Trance) as well as solo works STUDIES and this point of view produced a dozen or more stories on Singleton Set Records.
Brad E. Rose is the founder, principal writer, and editor-in-chief of the music magazine Foxy Digitalis and a multidisciplinary recording artist. He has released albums on dozens of labels, including Room 40 (AUS), Type (UK), Umor Rex (MX), and Moon Glyph (US). He created Foxy Digitalis to give space to those working at the edges of experimental music, beginning as a print zine in 1996 and eventually evolving into an online platform in 2003. It became a vital alternative to other publications and media, eschewing much of the gatekeeping and elitism that exists as a barrier for many artists to get their work heard and considered. After an eight-year hiatus, the site returned in January 2021 to again champion artists working on the fringes of experimental music, continuing to embody the DIY ethos and asserting its place in the outsider art tradition. He also runs the experimental music label, The Jewel Garden.
Robbie Wing is a sound artist and musician from Tulsa, OK. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. His music is the combination of field recording compositions, experimental music, and banjo tunes. He is currently working on a collection of songs that will be released in 2023.
Foxy Digitalis
Brad Rose started Foxy Digitalis for the first time in 1995 as a xeroxed paper ‘zine with a combination of music coverage and personal wanderings. Four issues later, it went into the first hibernation. In late 2003, Foxy Digitalis reappeared as an online music magazine, co-(re)created by Brad and Eden Hemming, covering much of the same ground. For nearly 10 years it grew and grew. Well over 100 writers contributed during that time. It’s hard to quantify all of it. Then in January 2013, it went back to sleep. But unfrozen by the world on fire, it’s time to write about weird music once again.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship
With the belief that arts are critical to the advancement of cultural citizenship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship supports artists and arts workers in the heart of Oklahoma’s Green Country. Socially invested artistic practitioners live and work here, intentionally engaging with our city. Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a George Kaiser Family Foundation cultural initiative.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
Tulsa Artist Fellowship strives to provide a welcoming and accessible experience. Our public programming is free, documented, and archived. Flagship accommodates wheelchairs and strollers. Variable seating is provided in addition to area for distanced standing and wheelchairs. Family scale private washrooms are available, designed to support visitors with disabilities and caregivers who need access to increased square footage and changing tables. Street side parking is available using the Park Mobile App and is free after 5pm and all day Saturday-Sunday. Please do not attend in-person Tulsa Artist Fellowship events if you are feeling unwell. Program format and protocols could shift if community health concerns become elevated. Staff are deeply appreciative for everyone’s cooperation in upholding these visitor guidelines to keep our artistic community healthy and vibrant.
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