Graham Stephenson & Casey Anderson, Nick Hoffman, Pauline Lay / Dominique Matelson / M A Tiesenga

Monday 27 April 2026 • 7pm

$15 dos

Graham Stephenson is a trumpet player based in Chicago. He uses amplification to explore the inner workings of the instrument, bringing tiny sounds into audibility and using them as material in creating spacious yet insistent performances. He has worked with many improvisers in Chicago and beyond, and has recordings on Erstwhile Records and Pilgrim Talk.

Pauline Lay

Pauline Lay is an instrumentalist, composer, and organizer in Los Angeles.

Nick Hoffman

Nick Hoffman is a musician currently based in Los Angeles. In 2009 he founded Pilgrim Talk — a small record label that publishes experimental music. He has performed music all over the world and has collaborated with many different people throughout the years. After many years playing extreme computer music, his recent works involve baroque lute and theorbo.

Casey Anderson

Casey Anderson (they / them) is designing and repurposing technologies to activate participatory practice, primarily involving explorations of sound, in diverse cultures and communities. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA - Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), Mass MOCA (MA), The Walker Art Center (MN), and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (CA). Over the last two decades they have lead numerous initiatives at the intersection of arts programming and community organization, including hybrid web-journal/festivals (the Experimental Music Yearbook, with John P. Hastings and Scott Cazan), as well as community arts centers/venues like Trade School (with Arden Stern), the wulf., BETALEVEL, and Machine Project. As an educator they have taught at ArtCenter College of Design and UCLA. They currently live in Los Angeles, California, own and operate the organizational initiative a wave, and teach at KAOS Network.

https://www.caseyanderson.work/

Dominique Matelson is a vocalist, composer and visual artist born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, where she currently resides. Her experimental vocal style is rooted in improvisation, extended technique, opera, and yodeling. Dominique's projects currently include her solo work, her live band in collaboration with local artists Pauline Lay and Kern Haug, and singing backing vocals for Dayton Swim Club.

M.A. Tiesenga is a composer, visual artist, sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, and improviser who uses expanded notation systems as inquiries into new sonic and relational possibilities. Their work explores the interplay between the procedure and enaction of scores within collaborative performance contexts, and sculpts that interplay into different sonic idioms. Conceiving of the musical score as both art object and notated intention, Tiesenga’s work allows both object and performance to be experienced as modular, living landscapes that reflect the people and spaces that engage them.

https://martatiesenga.format.com/

Trade School is an organization centered on building worker power through creative experimentation and education. Our mission is to provide affordable, accessible space for workers across communities to gather, exhibit, play, perform, teach, and learn. Founded by two design educators (Arden Stern and Casey Anderson) indebted to the radical visions of labor activism and liberation movements past and present, it was previously based on Hahamog’na land in the unincorporated area now known as Altadena, California.