The Rotunda

Bowerbird and MUSICA PRACTICA / ELETTRONICA VIVA present MSHR with Grace Villamil

Jun 4 2026 @ 8:00 PM



Bowerbird is pleased to present MSHR with opening set by Grace Villamil.

In collaboration with MUSICA PRACTICA / ELETTRONICA VIVA, this performance brings together electronic sound artists who investigate cybernetics, and embodied attunement via custom hardware and lighting networks to create immersive soundscape ceremonies.

Grace Villamil is an interdisciplinary artist working with sound, performance, imagery, and embodied archives. Her practice tends to how infrastructures of language, urban noise, sport, and pedagogy shape how the body listens over time. Drawing from heritage: karaoke culture, basketball, and environmental sound, her work proposes alternative modes of listening that resist pitch discipline, virtuosity, and assimilation.

Current projects include mumulak; Interaural Space, a community installation turned WPRB radio broadcast on noise, migration, and oral history; ⎤⎤⎤ (Superpang & Notice Recordings); Her work has been presented with Morphine Records, Fridman Gallery, and Black Mountain College Museum, including community projects with IONE and the Pauline Oliveros Foundation. She’s performed works by Raven Chacon and collaborated live-visuals with Tyondai Braxton. Presentations include Amant, Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal, Kiosk Radio, BXL, The Broad / REDCAT, Issue Project Room, among others.

MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems.

Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with a life-like current.

They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects.

MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, as an offshoot from the collective Oregon Painting Society.

The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.

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Event Horizon presents Sonic Foundry, Neil Cippon and Tim Motzer

Jun 5 2026 @ 8:00 PM

Sonic Foundry is a collaboration between the Dorety Brothers’ Dimension Step and the creative imagination of guitarist Karl Fury. The blending of the two camps is improvisational, intuitive, comprehensive and logical. They share similar interests, yet there are enough differences to create a contrast and diversity in the music. Karl’s love for the ambient can be heard in his guitar playing and use of numerous standard and home made electronic sound devices. That said, his technical skills on guitar can bring space and ambient music to another level bordering on the Prog Rock realm. As Dimension Step, Christopher uses synths, acoustical piano sounds and voice. Arthur uses an array of synthesized sounds inspired from old analog synths to modern keyboards. In addition to that, there is a generous use of synth percussion. The group as a whole has roots in yesteryears ambient and electronic origins as well as the old school prog rock. Combine Karl’s use of guitar to generate a plethora of sounds, combined with the spatial keyboards, melodic and arpeggiated approach of Dimensions Step and you have a broad canvas with an assortment of brushes, that paints a cosmic landscape ranging from sparse and delicate to dense and, rhythmic. Truly a factory of sound.

Neil Cippon is a Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist and visual artist best known for his ambient soundscapes and immersive video projections. For ambient Music, Cippon explores ambient atmospheres and soundscapes primarily through a six-string electric bass

After two decades of world touring, 17 solo guitar soundscape albums, and a multitude of stunning collaborations including over 100 albums of credits, Tim Motzer continues to “traverse manifold territories in music” (Guitar Player magazine). Tim is a sonic pioneer and widely known for his distinct textural acoustic-electro guitar voice utilizing looping, bowing, electronics, and prepared techniques. He has collaborated with numerous musical luminaries including David Sylvian, Burnt Friedman, the late Jaki Liebezeit, poet Ursula Rucker, King Britt, Questlove, Jamaaladeen

Patchwork Storytelling Guild is....
Calling All Tellers
Everyone with a story

Be part of the 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Traditionally called "A Patchwork of Stories for GrownUps," this storytelling showcase allows inclusivity of any story, poem, ballad, or other creative expression of story that is suitable to adult or general audiences under the umbrella of the oral tradition.

Folk, fairy, fable, myth, original works, spoken word, and personal narrative—besides solo, tandem, and group compositions—are welcome.

Application Deadline: July 15 @ midnight (2400)

Show Details:

Afternoon of Show: Sunday September 6

Venue: The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Phila.

Find out more at https://patchworkstorytelling.org/

This coming Saturday May 2! Join us for some of the best spoken word in the region! Doors at 7pm.