Experimental Music Night at The Clover Room featuring Cathedral Becomes Tomb, Caley Conway, and Hach

Experimental Music Night at The Clover Room
Doors @ 7:30

Show @ 8 pm

Tickets are $18

Experience mind-bending soundscapes from composer Barry Paul Park from Wisconsin, Hach\’s unique use of string quartet from WMU, and beautiful haunting lyrical melodies from Caley Conway. A night of new music that will be sure to expand your mind and have you thinking more deeply about humanity.

Cathedral Becomes Tomb is an audio and visual media expression from Wisconsin-based artist Barry Paul Clark (adoptahighway, Tontine Ensemble, Field Report).

The expression includes double bass in combination with effected audio signals. It draws inspiration from his lived experiences in conjunction with mental health therapy. The catalyst is an attempt to sonically manifest living with anxiety and major depressive disorders. Live performances are multimedia improvisations that utilize a mixture of projection imagery, film pieces, and Barry’s own video footage, with a visual signal affected by the sounds being produced in the performance.

This genre can be implemented as a tool of organization and for the comfort of an unknown, so for genre category purposes, Cathedral Becomes Tomb shares sonic spaces connected to drone, improvisation, glacial maximalism, deep listening, and experimental electronic, with techniques derivative of contemporary chamber/classical music. https://cathedralbecomestomb.bandcamp.com/

Local Composer and Songwriter, Hach, specializes in the macabre and dark side of the human condition. His music often tackles very serious topics such as existentialism, heartbreak, grief, nihilism, religion, philosophy, suicide, depression, and isolation in a masochistically introspective fashion. With his backing band, the Arsonists, Hach combines the idioms of classical and rock music in an accessible dichotomy with vocals and acoustic guitar, 2 violins, a viola, and a cello.

Caley Conway Rooted in folk but hardly bound to it, Caley Conway\’s inventive style ranges from jazz to post-rock, hints at the familiar, and embraces a dissonant beauty. The Milwaukeean\’s breezy voice and disarming wit belie a deep complexity, bringing a new set of rules to the singer-songwriter paradigm. Across her career, Conway has shared stages with such heavy hitters as Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, Lomelda, and more.

She ultimately and consistently turns in earnest, woebegone and playful work without a raised eyebrow in return – this sort of span of emotion is plain old magnetic in its humanity and has become her calling card. “Conway’s music is relatable to a wide audience beyond the Roots world…[her] vocal work goes above and beyond the call of duty,” praises No Depression Magazine, underlining that magnetism and admiring her unique finesse.

Although raised in the Midwest in Wisconsin, Conway got her songwriting start in more alluring places like Hawaii, New Zealand and India after dropping out of art school in the Midwest. In her wanderings, her ukulele became her constant companion and a device to connect with others wherever she went, seeking answers to the universal puzzlement of those sentient Salad Days. Now, mainly on electric guitar, Conway still uses songwriting as a function to connect and a way to communicate where she’s at, so to speak. Visit https://www.caleyconway.com/listen

The Clover Room An intimate listening room and rental venue dedicated to creatives of all kinds located in Kalamazoo. Located in Suite 6 inside Jerico.