HEXAGON HOUSE presents: Andrew Elaban w/ special guest Pete Fosco

1590 Glen Armand Avenue,Cincinnati OH 45223

30 October, 2021

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:: Prepare to be chilled the fuck out by the lush ambient vibrations. Andrew & Pete will each play a solo set followed by a short collab :: +HEXAGON HOUSE+ It's our intention to share our home for an evening of entertainment. Our backyard is the perfect setting to offer a safe and socially responsible gathering of likeminded folx who enjoy thoughtfully curated events in a memorable space. Our events are All Ages and BYOB. All music events require1 ticket per guest: advance purchase preferred however I will offer limited tickets at the door on the evening of the show (venmo or cash only). 75% of the sales go to our artists! follow us on IG @hexagonhousepresents to stay up to date on all of our events! PLEASE READ OUR HOUSE RULES - they will be sent with your ticket confirmation and again with show reminder email. MASK REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. + Andrew Elaban + Andrew is a musician working with modular synth and extended processing. He looks for opportunities to embrace the cracks and fractures that present themselves in his process. By engaging with modular systems he examines sound on a macro level, forming delicate melodic structures that slowly unfold into the next. Over the past year Andrew has been seeking new environments by spending quiet moments with a piano. This curiosity has provided a sense of calm in the midst of his normally electronic workflow. His first LP is available through Cincinnati label Whited Sepulchre Records. IG @atlantior_elder_naga andrewelaban.bandcamp.com whitedsepulchrerecords.com + Pete Fosco + Experimental guitarist Pete Fosco originally set his creative sights toward the visual medium, as a film student at the University Of Cincinnati. He soon diverted his focus to the College-Conservatory of Music’s (CCM) electronic media curriculum, taking up guitar soon after his graduation. While moving between extremely different standards of artistic expression could appear an immense transformation, Fosco sensed a cogent alliance. “Film soundtracks like Popol Vuh and Morricone definitely influenced me early on,” he says. “Film like music are both linear access models and require your devoted attention for maximum reward, especially more long form types of music like Elaine Radiague.” He continues, “There’s a lot of improvisation that has to happen in filmmaking too; you go in with a framework and then stuff falls apart or goes astray. I like that challenge.” Fosco’s recorded output and live performances span a range of disparate courses, his convergence of electronic effects and an idiosyncratic means of eliciting tones from his instrument (among them bows and percussive implements) patiently assembling anomalously orchestrated and penetratingly immersive layers of sound. As a guitarist, he counterbalances between the boundaries assigned to guitar in both the avant-garde and song-based contexts, with an auricular approach at once emblematic and schismatic of more orthodox practices. A native of Cincinnati who now resides in Covington, KY, Fosco has been interrogating these scopes of the electric guitar since the late 2000’s. His solo work has been documented on numerous celebrated underground imprints, among them Digitalis Limited, Reverb Worship, and his own Greenup Industries. A profile in Cincinnati periodical City Beat declares that his body of work “suggests the casual intensity of Steve Reich or Brian Eno” with “melodic and harmonic touches that lift Fosco’s sonic texturalism above the realm of simple ambience, to a place where tone poems and more traditional song structures and, perhaps more to the point, people co-exist and collide.” While his individual output has predominantly concentrated on what one might describe as congenial and harmonious, Fosco’s keen diversity has allowed him to entertain the atonal ecstatics of free improvisation in projects like Early Tunnels, his duo with John Lorenz of Wasteland Jazz Unit, as well as apocalyptic, yet controlled cacophony within his work in Concessionaires, a joint venture with Brad Rose (The North Sea, founder of Digitalis). While the COVID-19 pandemic brought a halt to live performance and touring that forced most musicians to reexamine and reassess their objectives, Fosco kept busy recording, releasing the improvised Memory Ladder on his Bandcamp as well as contributing to Rambutan’s Parallel Systems project, which brought together input from 69 artists from around the world, including Mike Watt, Anla Courtis, Guy Picciotto, John Olson, Howard Stelzer, and Peter Prescott. For the upcoming year, Fosco has planned a full-length entitled Bellflowers as well as a collaborator for Nathan McLaughlin’s Planetary Music series.” IG @petefosco facebook.com/pete.fosco petefosco.bandcamp.com twitter.com/pbfosco petefosco.com +HEXAGON HOUSE PRESENTS + It's our intention to share our home for an evening of entertainment. Our backyard is the perfect setting to offer a safe and socially responsible gathering of likeminded folx who enjoy thoughtfully curated events in a memorable space. Our events are All Ages and BYOB. Music events require advance tickets (unless otherwise stated) and 75% of the sales go to our artists. follow us on IG @hexagonhousepresents to stay up to date on all of our events!