New to Rochester, Adam Arritola of Eclectic Overdrive presents adventurous music inspired by Persian, Indian, and American folk traditions Jan. 8.
Experimental Music
Interview: Mroztronium’s Martin Freeman
Electronic musician
Martin Freeman is a mad scientist of sound. A longtime fixture in Rochester’s
experimental music scene, Freeman also sells original, made-from-scratch instruments through his company Mroztronium.
Finding musical freedom in the abstract
Joe Clark is free. The experimental guitarist is unfettered and unchained by conventional music norms. By elevating the atmosphere and making it paramount, he is, in a sense, turning the music inside out. What comes out is a wash of texture and sound that is both soothing and unnerving; it’s the sound of naptime on […]
Concert review: Wooden Cities with Greece Olympia students
On Friday, January 15, the Greece Olympia School cafeteria doubled as an informal music venue when the Buffalo-based ensemble Wooden Cities along with Olympia students — led by their teacher, Aaron Staebell — presented “an evening of experimental music.” And yet the experiment started long before the performance itself. The student musicians learned how to […]






