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About the Artist
Mike Haldeman spends much of his days searching and learning, trying to extract and uncover unexpectedly joyful and emotionally potent sounds from unexpected places and methods. mike takes the raw materials of guitars and clarinets, and through a labyrinthine course of cables and computers, sculpts sound-worlds that may resemble anything from howling gusts of wind, to gentle cascades of water, to a room full of quietly glittering miniature music boxes, to unsettling industrial clamor and clanging metal. he is grateful to be contributing to the flame keepers space, and particularly excited to be reuniting with friend and collaborator alfredo colon for this round of sound explorations in a new context together.
About the Artist
Alfredo Colon is a New York City native. The saxophonist was born to immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic and grew up in Washington Heights. He studied under musicians such as Lee Konitz, Jason Rigby, Steve Wilson and Jacob Sacks. Colon has performed alongside musicians such as Henry Threadgill, Moses Sumney, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Nduduzo Makhathini, Amirtha Kidambi, Harish Raghavan and many others. He has performed at esteemed spaces such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Roulette Intermedium, BAM, The Jazz Gallery, The Stone, National Sawdust and a myriad of others. Colon was awarded the Jazz Coalition Commission Fund Grant in early 2020. His piece ‘A Witch Gets Married’ premiered online on October 2020. The performance can be viewed here. He is also one of the recipients of Roulette’s Van Lier Fellowship for 2022. Alfredo plays P Mauriat instruments and D’Addario reeds.
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