Joan of Bark Presents… 2026-04-22

Joan of Bark Presents… 2026-04-22
Joan of Bark presents April 22, 2026

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 ** GARLAND FIELDER | LISA CAMERON + ALEX CUNNINGHAM + SARAH RUTH | KORY REEDER | ALEX STOCK + RACHEL WEAVER | WILL FRENKEL

DOORS AT 8:00, MUSIC AT 8:30
$5-$20 SLIDING SCALE

Garland Fielder is an artist/performer based in Houston. His studio, ARChouse, has served as a venue for the exhibition of art and free improvised performances as well as a functioning visual arts studio since 2021.
philspectral.bandcamp.com/album/nephesh-chayy-h
antonsyndrome.bandcamp.com/

Percussionist Lisa Cameron and violinist Alex Cunningham are a formidablle pairing. They have collaborated on two trio albums with bassist Damon Smith (“Dawn Throws Its First Knife” and “Time Without Hours), a quartet album with Smith and guitarist Sandy Ewen (”Meshes of Light”), and their own duo album, “Chasms,” released by Waveform Alphabet. “Chasms” was included in Marc Masters’ “Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp” column in March 2024.
chasmswa.bandcamp.com/album/chasms
Lisa Cameron (aka Venison Whirled) is an improviser from Austin, TX. Using amplified/acoustic percussion and strings, she locates resonant frequencies in space to create oscillating overtones, which are then employed
as sound sources for live improvisation. Cameron has improvised live with Jandek, Mani Neumier, Eugene Chadbourne, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Mike Watt, Jaap Blonk, Faust, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Claire Rousay, Alex
Cunningham, Damon Smith, Jessica Ackerley, Eli Wallace, Sandy Ewen, Raquel Bell,Tom Carter, Nathan Bowles, Fritz Welch, Sandy Ewen, Thor Harris, Jonathan Horne, and others.
linktr.ee/lisaca99
Alex Cunningham is a violinist, improviser, and visual artist based in St. Louis, MO. His recorded output spans free improvisation, drone, noise, and minimalist composition. Cunningham has recorded with Lisa Cameron, Damon Smith, claire rousay, Chris Trull (under the Apathist! moniker), Mark Shippy, Thom Nguyen, Patrick Shiroishi, Jessica Ackerley, Seth Andrew Davis, Sandy Ewen, Eli Wallace, and Weasel Walter. Cunningham has released music on the labels Close/Far Recordings, Already Dead Tapes and Records, Fort Evil Fruit, Working Man Lay Down, Orb Tapes, Astral Editions, Infrequent Seams, Industrial Coast, Flat Plastic Home Media, Profane Illuminations, Waveform Alphabet, and Astral Spirits.
alexcunninghamviolin.com/
Sarah Ruth is a diverse musician and artist, based in Denton, TX – a multi-instrumentalist, she employs hammered dulcimer, harmonium, electroacoustic sound art, homemade instruments 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, Aaron Gonzalez, Warren Realrider, Micaela Tobin (White Boy Scream) and Thor Harris 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, Full Spectrum and Linda Hand.
sarahruthalexander.com

Kory Reeder is an American composer and performer whose music is often introspective and atmospheric, investigating ideas of objectivity, place, immediacy, situation, and interaction with pieces ranging from symphonic works to text scores and computer-assisted improvisations.
koryreeder.com

Alex Stock, Denton-based artist, DJ, and producer strives to have different intensity levels within a creative piece for their audience to interact with.
linktr.ee/freakhorse
Rachel Weaver mixes multisensory ecological reveries including soundscape ecology, sound collage, ambient music, field recordings, zines, fiber arts, future news, & nous news.
blendways.bandcamp.com

Will Frenkel – guitarist, cellist, sculptor, and IMCAT composer. Proprietor of NO-FI/SCI-FI.
no-fi-psy-phi.bandcamp.com

Instagram:
@garlandfielder
@lisaca99
@alexcunningham.wav
@sarahruthalex23
@koryreeder
@freakhorse
@rantchill
@willfrenkel
@joanofbarkmusic