2025 Fest – Joan of Bark

GATHERING OF NEW AND ADVENTUROUS MUSIC

SATURDAY DECeMBER 13, 2025

DENTON, TX

A special event celebrating experimental, contemporary, free, and adventurous music

Joan of Bark FEST 2025 was funded in part by the City of Denton

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White Boy Scream

Composer and sound artist Micaela Tobin wields her soprano voice against the confines of convention. With her primary project White Boy Scream, Micaela dissects her operatic and extended vocal techniques through hardware, oscillating between extreme textures of noise, drone, and sound walls. As The New Yorker observed, “She demands to be seen and heard for who she is”: ritualistic, communal, reverent, familial, singular. Empowered.

On her full length album BAKUNAWA (Deathbomb Arc) Micaela explored her diasporic identity as a first-generation Filipina-American. She not only intentionally combined her seductive incantations with biting industrial extremities, but pointedly incorporated a deep-dive into her heritage. Musically, Micaela carries a lineage started by the likes of Diamanda Galas and Scott Walker; compositionally, a deeper through-line is continued with her Filipino ancestors, from whom she received the album’s mythological and romantic themes. The album was ranked #9 Release of 2020 in The Wire.

Micaela is the proud recipient of the 2021 MAP Fund, the 2022 NPN Creation & Development Fund, and was awarded the 2024 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. She is currently based in Tulsa, OK as an awardee of the 2025-2027 Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

micaelatobin.com/white-boy-scream
wbscream.bandcamp.com
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photo: Marco Giugliarelli

Little Mazarn

Mustang Island, the third album from Austin-based band Little Mazarn, is a gentle force. Waves of grief crest like surf on the Texas coast. Wild horses break through long-shuttered gates, only to come back around. Lead songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Lindsey Verrill (she/her) joins bandmates Jeff Johnston (he/him) and Carolina Chauffe (they/them). The ten-song collection continues work with Dear Life Records. A full-throated romp through the capabilities of community-minded songcraft, Mustang Island is both naturalistic and futuristic, completely recasting Little Mazarn’s origins in primitive folk. Instead, the band reaches towards sonic experimentation and spacious expansion.

Lindsey’s heart-opening vocals and Jeff’s singing saw, both trademarks of the project, mix with unexpected bombastic drums, dissonant synthesizers, and a chorus of orchestral oddities. This mid-career ode dances confidently in the creative liberties granted by decades in the game – more dazzlingly lively, and honestly somber, than ever before.

The band’s crossroads branch across prominent Southern outsider music: On cello, Lindsey has recorded with Patty Griffin and Dana Falconberry. Jeff has played in Bill Callahan’s band, as well as with Li’l Cap’n Travis and Orange Mothers. Carolina is known for prolific solo project hemlock. Little Mazarn has also collaborated with Lomelda to release their last EP, Honey Island General Store (2023), following past LPs Texas River Song (2022) and Io (2019).

Alongside silliness and reverence, including covers from Kate Wolf and Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, grief directs much of Mustang Island. Lindsey left her job of seventeen years teaching cello at a local school. Recording also aligned with the passing of Jeff’s father, a career educator in Jeff and Lindsey’s hometown of Dallas.

“Grief, and the avoidance of grief, is a big part of being human,” says Lindsey. “You make a choice, and then you grieve for the other choice. Or you finish a meal and literally grieve that it was so good. If you really befriend grief, you’re like, ‘Oh, it’s here, in this pancake, which I loved so much that I ate the whole thing, and now it’s gone.’” -Rachel Rascoe

‘The music of Little Mazarn is a cool float a few feet from the ground through a dimly lit, almost familiar forest. It is quieter than silence, big as everything, still but always moving. If you’ve ever had flying dreams, or an amazing night time bike ride on LSD, this might be a world for you. Chords are made up of notes; Little Mazarn gives them all their own moment. There are NO superfluous notes played here. Lindsey’s kind and twisting voice ambles along over the spare sounds of Jeff Johnston’s saw bowing, Ralph White’s electric mbira wanderings, and her own slow banjo. Like DJ Screw, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, and anyone who chooses to walk instead of ride, Lindsey realizes the amazing power of slow… slow… slow music. Lindsey is at once a baby and a wise old man. Get in this canoe at dawn on some Texas river that remembers when Comanche slept under the stars.’—Thor Harris, Talkhouse

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littlemazarn.bandcamp.com
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photo: Julian Neel

Evil Horns

(Gabe Lit + Nikki D’Agostino)

Gabe Lit

Gabriel Lit is a composer, performer, and Music Director based in Austin, Texas. He obtained his Master’s Degree in Music Therapy from New York University, under the supervision of Alan Turry at the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in music composition from the University of North Texas studying under Joseph Klein.

Gabriel has a wealth of experience in an array of clinical settings from pre-schools through the end of life and is currently the Assistant Director of Therapeutic Recreation at Archcare at Mary Manning Walsh Home.

Gabriel has composed, orchestrated, and performed original, interactive orchestral music for developmentally diverse audiences with the Greenwich Village Orchestra, and has recorded and performed with numerous professional bands and ensembles. He is a proud founding member of Actionplay and has been co-writing musicals with neurodiverse artists for going on 10 years now. Most importantly, he is a lucky husband and a proud, happy father of three.

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Photo: Batch Austin

Nikki D'Agostino

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An award-winning “wildly creative” composer, musician, conductor, educator, and multi-disciplinary artist, Nikki D’Agostino has both performed and had her works performed nationally and internationally. She received her B.A. from The University of North Texas in 2004 after studying with Joseph Klein, Phil Winsor, and Joseph “Butch” Rovan, before pursuing her M.M. in Music Composition (2008) at CUNY Brooklyn College to study with Amnon Wolman and George Brunner. Currently, Ms. D’Agostino is focused on publishing a book of scores and recording an album of works using a notation system she developed to allow both performer and composer/conductor creative control. As a “beautifully brash” saxophonist, synthesizer enthusiast, and sound artist, Ms. D’Agostino performs actively in the NYC music scene in several groups ranging in style from indie pop to harsh noise.

femalegenius.bandcamp.com
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photo: Curtis Smith

Wenepa / Spirit Plate

Wenepa

The ensemble of Denton based artist and musician, Melanie Little Smith. Wenepa means noise in Chickasaw … an ensemble seeking the original ruckus, coming from multi-colored mountains, cold island cities, arid wild plains, and fast moving air

wenepa.bandcamp.com
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photo: Sarah Jaffe

Spirit Plate

Spirit Plate is the spiritual noise trio of Mateo Galindo (Atomic Culture co-curator, crieslol, Death Convention Singers) and Nathan Young (Tulsa Noise organizer, formerly of Postcommodity, Ajilvsga, etc.) and Warren Realrider ( TickSuck, Waves of Dust, WRxMG)

Heavily influenced by and grounded in the traditions of spiritual free jazz, noise rock and the most intense moments of indigenous trance music, Spirit Plate utilizes reciprocal feedback loops, custom electronics, prepared guitar and drumming to create ecstatic improvisations that invoke sacred trance and drone traditions, smuggled in the form of rock band aesthetics. As transdisciplinary artists we are concerned with developing strategies toward a decolonial relationship with sound, performance and listening.

Mateo Galindo is a Chicano artist and curator exploring sonic agency, cultural resonance, and memory through sound, sculpture, and performance. As co-creator of Atomic Culture (est. 2015), he curates site-specific public performances and installations that amplify Indigenous, Latinx, and underrepresented voices, sparking community dialogue through experimental art. Galindo operates Tierra y Que, a gallery in Marfa, Texas, which hosts three shows annually featuring local and international artists.
featuring local and international artists. @3dcoyote

Nathan Young (born 1975, Tahlequah, OK) is an artist-scholar-composer working in an expanded practice that incorporates sound, video, documentary, animation, installation, socially engaged art, and experimental music. Nathan’s work often engages the spiritual and the political, re-imagining indigenous sacred imagery to complicate and subvert notions of the sublime. Nathan is a founding and former member of the Indigenous artist collective Postcommodity and holds an MFA in Music / Sound from Bard College’s Milton-Avery School of the Arts. @nathanyoungstudios

Warren Realrider is a Pawnee/Crow multidisciplinary artist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is currently creating as part of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. While studying painting at the University of Oklahoma he began an exploration of sound, materials, and site as elements of his art practice. Warren created the Tick-Suck noise performance project in 2016 as sound became central to his practice. Realrider works to play the tensions and time locations between objects, functions, and movements to create works constructed on the frameworks of noise art, improvisation, and experimental composition.
@warrealrider.sound

photo: Mo Elridge

Henna Chou + Aaron González + Kory Reeder

Henna Chou

Henna Chou playing cello
Henna Chou (HC) is a musician and curator residing in Austin, Texas. She has performed and written music for community theater productions as well as created string arrangements for rock band albums and film projects. HC often participates in live performance as a keyboardist, cellist, guitarist, or sound artist and is a volunteer with COTFG, an experimental music and sound art program in Austin, TX.

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photo: Walt Burns

Aaron Gonzalez

Aaron Gonzalez, bassist, vocalist, composer, improvising musician, visual artist and poet based in Dallas, TX. He grew up in an artistic and musical family, being the son of jazz trumpeter, artist, and educator Dennis Gonzalez, and brother of drummer/percussionist Stefan Gonzalez. Stefan and Aaron played with Dennis in the free jazz group Yells At Eels, and related ensembles. They also have played as the grindcore duo Akkolyte, and with Portuguese/Texan avant-jazz outfit Humanization 4tet, theatrical avant-rock band Unconscious Collective, free improv group Firelife Trio, as well as in combos led by such musicians as Mars Williams, Curtis Clark, and Eugene Chadbourne.

Aaron grew up studying classical repertoire in Dallas public schools, attending the Arts Academy at Greiner Middle School and Booker T. Washington High School For The Performing And Visual Arts. He also received lessons from the Young Strings program, sponsored by The Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In his youth, he played with various local rock and experimental bands, eventually beginning an extensive career as a free improvising musician.

He has been associated with many other improvisers, including Sarah Ruth, Ernesto Montiel, Tatsuya Nakatani, Dave Dove, Lisa Cameron, and others. He has had recently played with weirdo surf metal outfit Kolga, improv noise rock group Unrelenting Psoriasis, absurdist performance art/experimental rock combe BS Noise Control, queer performance art/avant vocal terrorists Asukubus, in a duo with vocalist Lily Taylor, performing deconstructed versions of jazz standards, and The Heart Breath Ensemble, a large-scale improv group helmed by the classic jazz drummer Ra Kalam Bob Moses.

He occasionally plays original music in productions by the local underground theater The Ochre House. He has taught lessons on both bass guitar, and standup bass, with after-school program La Rondalla.

You can listen to Yells at Eels here.
You can listen to Unconscious Collective here.
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photo: Žiga Koritnik

Spirit Plate

Kory Reeder is an American composer and performer whose music, drawing inspiration from the visual arts and political theory, is often introspective with a “rarefied atmosphere” (Bandcamp), investigating ideas of objectivity and immediacy, while exploring the social implications of musical interaction with pieces ranging from symphonic and chamber works to field recording, text scores and computer-assisted improvisations.

Described as “one of the most captivating composers in modern classical music” (Dallas Observer), Kory’s music is performed frequently around the world in concert halls, festivals, academic settings, basements, and bars across North and South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe. A dedicated collaborator, he has frequently worked with opera, theater, and dance programs, as well as noise, free-improv, and new media artists on projects ranging from video collaborations to 24-hour live performance art works, “Pushing at limits was always on Reeder’s agenda” (Chamber Music America). He has been artist-in-residence at Arts, Letter, and Numbers, The Kimmel, Harding, Nelson Center for the Arts and has been Artist in Residence in the Everglades, Artist in residence at the Homestead National Monument, and the Composing in the Wilderness program.

With a catalog of over 100 programmed works, his work has been performed by the Toledo Symphony, The Fort Worth Symphony, and the New Jersey Symphony, as well as performances by Apartment House. His work has been heard on the BBC, Klangraum, the New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the New Music Gathering, The Composers Conference, the Molten Plains series and the Molten Plains festival, Taproot New Music Festival, International Society for Contemporary Music’s World Music Days, Composer’s Circle, SEAMUS, LaTex, The New Music Conflagration’s Traveling Tunes // Traveling Sounds, the national BGSU Graduate Student Forum, the Bowling Green New Music Festival, the Electroacoustic Barn Dance, New Music on the Point, Noise Floor, New Music on the Bayou, various SCI Conferences, among many others. His work for Hecuba was awarded by The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for achievement in Original Composition Music and Sound Effects, he has been an ASCAP Morton Gould Award finalist, and has been recognized by the Fulbright Program, the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, ACSM 116 (Tokyo), Festival Stradella (Italy), XIV Open Composition Competition named after Andrey Petrov (Russia), among others.

His music has been released on Edition Wandelweiser Records, where one may also find scores of his work, as well as portrait albums released on Full Spectrum Records, Sawyer Editions, Sawyer Spaces, Impulsive Habitat, and Another Timbre, with further releases planned for 2024 and 2025. Kory runs/operates Sawyer Editions, a small-batch label specializing in contemporary, experimental, and improvised music, especially of new and unreleased artists and the Sawyer Spaces imprint focusing on field recordings and soundscape composition.

As a performer, Kory is a bassist, sometimes pianist, and sometimes noisemaker. Performing as a section and substitute bassist in regional orchestras as well as contemporary and traditional chamber ensembles, Kory also tours frequently as an independent artist or as an ensemble member performing his chamber music and works of others as well as in creative music and improvised musical contexts.

Kory is from Nebraska and currently resides in Texas where he is an active performer and teacher. He received his PhD from the University of North Texas where he taught courses in composition, electronic music, rock music, music as politics, and vaporwave and directed the University’s Electronics Ensemble, and the Free Improv Ensemble. He is a former student of Antoine Beuger, Anthony Donofrio, Sungi Hong, Joseph Klein, Mikel Kuehn, Elainie Lillios, and Darleen Cowles Mitchel, holds a Master of Music degree in composition from Bowling Green State University and a Bachelor of Music in composition from the University of Nebraska at Kearney where he was named a Gary Thomas Distinguished Music Alumnus in 2024.

koryreeder.com
koryreeder.bandcamp.com
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photo: Taylor Collins, underworldvideo.com

MATTIE + Stefan González + Joshua Cañate

MATTIE

MATTIE is a mirror. She is an oracle of the SOL, and a watchperson over the keys to liberation guiding your experience via modalities of introspective visuals, lyrical self-inquiry, melody/harmony, experimental instrumentation, movement, meditation, and performance art.

Her sound? Experimental SOL. Her destination? Wholeness.

An experimental vocalist from Dallas, TX – MATTIE began singing in church at age four where she learned the basis of conventional gospel music. From there MATTIE has toured + recorded with Israel Houghton and New Breed, and received Dallas Observer Music Award nominations.

mattie.bandcamp.com

photo: Daven Martinez

Stefan Gonzalez

Stefan González, drummer, vibraphonist, percussionist, and vocalist originally from Dallas, TX, currently living in Denton. Studied drums with W.A. Richardson, Alvin Fielder, and Ronald Shannon Jackson. They are best known for playing in their defunct family free jazz trio, Yells at Eels, with their late father, the world renowned trumpeter, Dennis Gonzalez, and their older brother Aaron Gonzalez on bass. The trio had a 22 year run. The Gonzalez siblings have a long running grindcore duo known as Akkolyte who formed in 1998 and still perform sporadically. Additionally, Stefan and Aaron have played as the joint rhythm section for many groups including Luis Lopes Humanization 4tet (with Rodrigo Amado), Fire Life Trio (with Danny Kamins), Unconscious Collective (with Gregg Prickett), Curtis Clark Trio, Trio No Mas (with Mars Williams), and The Chadbourne/Gonzalez Collusion (with Eugene Chadbourne).

Other acts worth mentioning are Gonzalez’s long running industrial solo project turned duo, Orgullo Primitivo (with Abbas Khorasani), Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten’s international supergroup The Young Mothers (with Frank Rosaly, Jonathan Horne, Jawwaad Taylor, and Jason Jackson), Denton psychedelic thrashers Heavy Baby Sea Slugs, the Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band, a trio with Wendy Eisenberg and Damon Smith, and North Texas avant-garde jazz powerhouse Trio Glossía (with Joshua Cañate and Matthew Frerck).

Other collaborators and past groups include Alvin Fielder, Joe McPhee, Mars Williams, Maria Valencia, Famoudou Don Moye, German Bringas, Sabir Mateen, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Sarah Ruth, Assif Tsahar, Akira Sakata, Alex Coke, Tatsuya Nakatani, Remi Alvarez, John Dikeman, Michel Doneda, Rob Mazurek, Itzam Cano, Gabriel Lauber, Elliott Levin, Dan Clucas, Jandek, Mike Watt, Asukubus, Imperial Slaughter, Just Another Consumer, and many more.

stefangonzalez.bandcamp.com
You can listen to Yells at Eels here.
You can listen to Unconscious Collective here.

photo: Ellie Alonzo

Joshua Canate

Joshua Cañate, A drummer, percussionist, and tenor saxophonist originally raised in the Bronx and Ft. Worth and currently residing in Denton, TX. Having started playing music in the realm of d.i.y. punk, psychedelic rock, kraut, and doom, Cañate has gradually immersed himself further in exploratory jazz, free improvisation, and no wave. Same Brain, Trio Glossía, Flesh Narc, Jawbuster, and The Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band are his current active projects.

Cañate also operates as a free improviser in many different live scenarios, collaborating and playing in one-off situations with the likes of Richard Lenz, Sarah Ruth, Injured, New Fumes, bobb hatt, Angel, Water Damage, Thinky Flesh, Steve Jansen, and many more.

“Cañate is a marvel of joyful abandon behind the drums, keeping time with his hi-hat while exploding all over the kit. His tenor voice has depth as well as power, and his small instruments add color and atmosphere to the mix…at one point, paused in the middle of “Zoomorphology” to interact with insect sounds on the wind chime he had hanging from his tenor sax…”

—Ken Shimamoto, The Stash Dauber

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photo: Ellie Alonzo

Joan of Bark Ensemble

(Sarah Ruth Alexander, Will Frenkel, Sarah Jay, Gabe Lit, Wen Lit, Elizabeth McNutt, Rachel Weaver, Paul Slavens)

Sarah Ruth Alexander

Sarah Ruth (Denton, TX) is a diverse musician and artist – a multi-instrumentalist, she employs hammered dulcimer, harmonium, electroacoustic sound art, and extended vocal techniques. She performs frequently both solo and with multiple bands and improvisational ensembles in the North Texas area. She is a University of North Texas graduate where she focused on vocal studies and electroacoustic composition. She has also studied with Meredith Monk and members of her vocal ensemble. She enjoys varied collaborations and has worked as a sound artist for art and photography installations and an accompanist for modern dance.

She has performed with Damon Smith, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jaap Blonk, Liz Tonne, Sarah Gamblin, Rosemary Candelario, Susan kae Grant, Lisa Cameron, Tom Carter, and Aaron Gonzalez, to list a few. She tours nationally and her recent albums have been released on Sawyer Spaces, Obsolete Media Objects, Balance Point Acoustics, Pour le Corps Music, and Linda Hand. Sarah co-curates the Molten Plains series and festival with Ernesto Montiel in Denton. She also hosts a radio program called Tiger D on KUZU LP broadcasting in Denton at 92.9 FM and streaming online at kuzu.fm, playing music and often featuring guest musicians to curate and discuss their playlists. She recently had a chapter titled “Community Building Through Collaboration,” published in Routledge‘s Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change.

sarahruthalexander.com
sarahruth.bandcamp.com
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photo: Taylor Collins, underworldvideo.com

Will Frenkel

Living in Denton over 20 years, Will Frenkel has been making music and art in various mediums his entire life. “My work is what defines me,” he says. “With an abundance of resources available, when we can slow down enough to recognize such, the desire to ‘reuse’ has been a concept that is strived for, from the flavorful conjuring in the kitchen to the hanging of art on the wall.” Sometimes visions change throughout the process of creating, so the necessity to go wih the flow may redirect the show, as is the case with Will’s work.

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photo: Taylor Collins, underworldvideo.com

Sarah Jay

Sybil Jay is an electronic artist living in Denton, TX. She combines processed vocals, beats, and drone to channel the energies of the local daemonia. Her current work is in conspiracy with the natural world.

Vesta, recent album release
sybiljay.bandcamp.com
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photo: Taylor Collins, underworldvideo.com

Gabe Lit

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Photo: Batch Austin

Wen Lit

Wen Chang Lit, a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Certified EMDR Therapist, and Mandarin-speaking therapist, specializes in trauma resolution, anxiety treatment, and music therapy. She provides EMDR therapy online throughout New York State, while both she and Gabriel Lit, a Certified Music Therapist, offer therapy services in-person and online across Texas.

Wen plays violin in the Go YoTai Klezmer Trio.

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Elizabeth McNutt

Passionately devoted to the music of the present, flute virtuoso Elizabeth McNutt is internationally recognized for her performances of innovative contemporary and electroacoustic music. She has collaborated with such recognized figures as Pierre Boulez, Harvey Sollberger, Roger Reynolds, Philippe Manoury, Russell Pinkston, Gerhard Staebler, Joji Yuasa, Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, and Joan Tower. She has premiered countless works and performed in Europe, Asia, and throughout the U.S.

Her solo CD pipe wrench is on the EMF Media label; her other recordings are on the CRI, Centaur, SEAMUS, Navona, and Ravello labels. Her festival appearances include Sonorities (U.K.), Women in Music Today (Korea), Darmstadt (Germany), Third Practice (VA), Electronic Music Midwest (IL), Scotia (Nova Scotia), Norfolk (CT), and Arcosanti (AZ). McNutt has performed “cyber-flute” repertoire more than a dozen conferences of the International Computer Music Association and Society of Electro-Acoustic Music United States. She frequently performs as part of the Calliope Duo with pianist Shannon Wettstein; she also directs the Sounds Modern series based at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Dr. McNutt (DMA, UCSD) is committed to scholarly research, with articles published in Organised Sound, Flutist Quarterly, and Music Theory Online; she sometimes blogs about new music at newmusicpioneer.com.

She has received grants and fellowships from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, USArtists International, Open Meadows, Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute, Earle Brown Music Foundation, and American Composers Forum, among others. Dr. McNutt is part-time faculty of the University of North Texas, where she teaches flute and directs the new music ensemble Nova.

elizabethmcnutt.net

Rachel Weaver

Rachel Weaver is a mixed media artist, freelance creative, community organizer, and environmentalist residing in Denton, TX. Their environmental education work, mixed media performances, writings, and presentations are parts of a transdisciplinary environmental philosophy approach to evoke the environmental imagination and maieutic practice.

Their mixed media eco-art performance — blendways — combines field recordings, ambient music, zines, fiber works, and visuals. They have performed in festivals, conferences, museums, galleries, and showcases in North Texas.

Their community radio show, IN FORMED Radio, presents fiction, nonfiction, mindful observation, field recordings, local information, news, and educational programming via KUZU LPFM – on 92.9 FM in Denton, and streaming online at kuzu.fm

They have essays published in anthologies and journals, and have presented their work at colleges, universities, and local, regional, and international conferences.

– Mapping Meaning Journal Issue No. 4
– About Place Journal: Practices of Hope
– About Place Journal: Rewilding
– The New Farmer’s Almanac (Volumes 2, 3, & 4)

Rachel is an artist & writer (Weavers Writing), Environmental Educator & Director with The PETAL Project, Education & Volunteer Coordinator with the Native Prairies Association of Texas, a Board Member and station volunteer for KUZU community radio, a co-founder of Denton Zine & Art Party, and coordinates local art events.

Rachel’s previous work experience includes: Market Manager at the Coppell Farmers Market, Facilities Manager at the Greater Denton Arts Council, Education Director of SCRAP Creative Reuse, Director of SCRAP Denton, Coordinator for the Denton Community Market art and farmers market, a crew member and garden manager at Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center, taught college courses, managed small farm crews and community gardens, and has joined in environmental work abroad.

They support community endeavors that promote conservation and sustainability, creative expression and experimentation, and educational experiences.

blendways.bandcamp.com

photo: Taylor Collins, underworldvideo.com

Paul Slavens

J. Paul Slavens is a composer and musician based in Denton, Texas. He plays piano and keyboards along with many other instruments, primarily in the Dallas/Fort Worth/Denton area but has toured nationally with several bands including Ten Hands, Baptist Generals, The Travoltas and others. In addition to regularly composing and playing live music, Paul produces a weekly radio show on KXT in Dallas.

pslavens.bandcamp.com
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photo: Jonathan D. Holloway

Sonic Workshop + Native Plant Walk

The PETAL Project & Joan of Bark present:
Sonic Workshop + Native Plant Walk
Saturday, December 13, 11am-1pm
at Clear Creek Natural Heritage Center – Davis Prairie*

Ears to the ground – join us as we explore sonic listening and mindfulness in nature while enjoying the native landscape and fall plant habitats.

With practices from Kory Reeder, Sarah Ruth Alexander, Sarah Jay, and Rachel Weaver. After doing some listening/mindfulness practices together, we will continue with a Native Plant Hike led by the PETAL Project.

Free & open to the public.

*- Parking lot entrance on Hartlee Field Road, on the right before the Mountain Bike Trail

https://maps.app.goo.gl/bZQiqYdjr8ZNjzDE9
Mountain Bike Trail Address (5331 Hartlee Field Rd, Denton, TX 76208)

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Schedule

Doors at 5pm
Show at 5:30pm

Set order:
Joan of Bark Ensemble
Henna Chou + Aaron González + Kory Reeder
Evil Horns
Wenepa / Spirit Plate
Little Mazarn
MATTIE + Stefan González + Joshua Cañate
White Boy Scream

Location

Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios
411 E. Sycamore St.
Denton TX 76209

Early December weather in Denton typically ranges from 60°F during the day and 40°F at night. Please prepare accordingly.