[UPDATED Aug 2023]
Oct 18, 2023
The Landing Strip
Short Americans play "by our faint shadows going before us"
Sep 24, 2023
Amsterdam
Dante Boon plays "without content, exiled from my container"
Sep 18, 2023
Boston: Streetcar Liquors
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin, with Forbes Graham & friends
Sep 17, 2023
Philadelphia: Johannes Kelpius Center for the Emerging Arts
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin, with Jim Strong & friends
Sep 16, 2023
Saugerties NY: Verbatim Festival, Opus40
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin, with Winds Measure Recordings
Sep 15, 2023
NYC: 597 Concert Series
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin, with friends
Sep 14, 2023
Baltimore, MD: Red Room
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin, with Amy Golden
Aug 31, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin duo
August 18-27, 2023
Neufelden, Austria: The Station
Co-Incidence Festival (Year 6)
Aug 3, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Short Americans play Kory Reeder, Adam Zahller, and Max Wanderman
July 24-26, 2023
New York City, NY
Ordinary Affects plays Teodora Stepancic
July 23, 2023
Providence, RI: RISD Museum
Ordinary Affects plays Ordinary Affects
July 8, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Solo set
June 1, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Short Americans play Noah Ophoven-Baldwin
May 6, 2023
Beijing, China: fruity space
Sun Yizhou, John Wilton, Liang Hao play 'gathering sticks' (Luke Martin)
April 17, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Icehouse
Adam Zahller & Luke Martin duo
April 10, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Icehouse
Realtree plays Noah Ophoven-Baldwin
March 23, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
James P. Falzone & Luke Martin duo
March 9, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Derek Baron & Luke Martin duo
March 5, 2023
Ithaca, NY: Cornell
Ordinary Affects
February 26, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
T.J. Bordon & Luke Martin duo
February 9, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin duo
January 9, 2023
Saint Paul, MN: White Squirrel Bar
Solo improvisation, NIMB
December 18, 2022
Providence, RI: RISD
Ordinary Affects
November 10, 2022
New Orleans, LA: Scatter Jazz at Zeitgeist
Improvisation with Derek Baron
November 9, 2022
New Orleans, LA: Hi Ho
Solo improvisation, NIMB
October 15, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Adam & Elektra's
Improvisation with Max Wanderman
October 13, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Eagles Club
Solo improvisation, NIMB
September 11, 2022
London, UK: Hill Station Cafe
Pieces with James Creed and friends
September 7, 2022
London, UK: Hundred Years Gallery
Improvisation with N.O. Moore
August 27, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Patrick & Alana's
Improvisation with Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Max Wanderman
August 15-24, 2022
Lovell, ME: Hewnoaks Residency with Ordinary Affects
July 29, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: The Pink Slip
Improvisation with Adam Zahller
June 11, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Hearkening Concert Series
Improvisation with Douglas Kearney & Dameun Strange
January 2-8, 2022
Somerville, MA: WSAC
Co-Incidence Festival (Year 5)
July 23-26, 2021
Townsend, VT: Ordinary Affects
July 12, 2021
Minneapolis, MN: Adam's
Improvisation with TJ Borden
July 21, 2020
Non-Event at Home
'For James' (Luke Martin)
January 10-18, 2020
Somerville, MA: WSAC
Co-Incidence Festival (Year 4)
Sep 22, 2019
Saint Paul, MN: Vespers Concerts
Pieces with Doug Farrand
July 29 - August 4, 2019
Dusseldorf, Germany
Klangraum Festival
July 28, 2019
Berlin, Germany
KM28 Series
July 25-28, 2019
Neufelden, Austria
July 23-25, 2019
Aarau, Switzerland
July 20-22, 2019
The Hague, Netherlands
July 18, 2019
Huddersfield, England (with Ryoko Akama)
July 15-18
London, England
May 19, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: traces of the divine (Ordinary Affects)
May 18, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: ghosts (Chris Strunk, Andrea Pensado, Jennie Gottschalk, Luke Martin)
May 17, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: reading (Andy Graydon, Jose Rivera, Rahul Nair, Luke Martin)
May 16, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: each day i must think of 20, 50 people (Jose Rivera, Rahul Nair, Luke Martin)
May 15, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: transparencies (Luke Martin)
April 24-29, 2019
Venice, Italy
Sound Kite Orchestra (with Florian Dombois)
April 7, 2019
Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
April 6, 2019
The Red Room, Baltimore
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
April 5, 2019
Columbia University, New York City
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
April 4, 2019
Bowerbird, Philadelphia
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
April 3, 2019
Non-Event, Boston
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
April 1, 2019
New England Conservatory, Boston
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
January 11-20, 2019
WSAC, Somerville
The Co-Incidence Festival (Year 3)
November 30, 2018
Emerson College, Boston
Guest Artist Lecture
November 14, 2018
New England Conservatory, Boston
Ordinary Affects + Christian Wolff (New Work 'For Ordinary Affects')
November 2, 2018
Wesleyan University, CT
JPA Falzone Recital
Oct 26-28, 2018
SITE/less, Chicago
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]
Oct 23, 2018
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]
Oct 19, 2018
Dartmouth College: Concert & Workshop
Ordinary Affects + Eva-Maria Houben
Oct 16, 2018
The Yard, Boston: Concert
Standing Waves, feat Eva-Maria Houben, perf with Ordinary Affects
Oct 15, 2018
Spectrum, NYC: Concert
Ordinary Affects + Eva-Maria Houben
Oct 13-14, 2018
Wesleyan University: Recording & Workshop
Ordinary Affects + Eva-Maria Houben
Sep 15, 2018
Fog X Flo (Fujiko Nakaya Fog Sculptures)
"practices in the imaginary: reading" (12 hours), perf by Luke Martin & Aaron Foster Breilyn
Aug 28, 2018
Yellowfish Performance Art Festival (Seattle)
"recursive retent" perf by Luke Martin & Aaron Foster Breilyn
Aug 9, 2018
Aviary Gallery, JP
"potentially together (3)," "possible deltas," "stück 2004(2)" perf by Luke Martin
Jul 22, 2018
MIT Press Bookstore
Standing Waves feat Nomi Epstein, perf by Ordinary Affects
June 24, 2018
MIT Press Bookstore
Standing Waves feat Derek Baron, perf by Ordinary Affects
June 11-17, 2018
Performances at DogStar Festival, Los Angeles
May 20, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ RISD
Performance of new works by OA
April 4, 2018
Santa Monica Library Public Library
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]
April 7, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ RISD
Performance of 'Ascending Series' by Michael Pisaro
April 6, 2018
SUNY Stony Brook, DMA Flute Recital
(Public) performance of 'possible deltas'
March 26, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ Wesleyan
Performance with Jordan Dykstra of new works by Dykstra
March 23, 2018
Pitzer College Art Galleries
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]
March 18, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ RISD
New durational work by Jordan Dykstra
March 10, 2018
the wulf., Los Angeles
Performance of 'practice (1)' and works by Amy Golden, Tim Tsang & Parch Es, and Marta Tiesenga
January 19 - 28, 2018
The Co-Incidence Festival
Washington Street Art Center, Somerville MA
January 17, 2018
Midway Series, Jamaica Plain MA
Solo performance "now is the moment to learn hope" by Antoine Beuger
November 12, 2017
Standing Waves #11, EMW Bookstore, Cambridge MA
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey
November 11, 2017
Recording Session
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey
November 10, 2017
Dartmouth College
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey
November 9, 2017
Wesleyan University
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey
November 8, 2017
Non-Event / swissnex, Cambridge, MA
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey
October 22, 2017
Standing Waves, Cambridge, MA
Ordinary Affects performs Andre Cormier
September 28, 2017
Third Life Studios, Somerville, MA
OpenSound: Performance with Grizzler (new piece)
September 23, 2017
Vernon St. Studios, Somerville, MA
Ordinary Affects performs Patrick Farmer and Doug Farrand
September 22, 2017
The Goethe-Institut, Boston (Non-Event)
Installation: 'Time Transcriptions' // solo improvisation (no-input mixer)
August 17, 2017
Blue Bag Records, Cambridge, MA
Duo w/ Morgan Evans-Weiler
August 6, 2017
Third Life Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance with Katie Porter of Michael Pisaro’s ‘asleep, street, pipes, tones’ / Brian Eubanks 'Object VII'
August 6, 2017
Washington St. Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance with Ordinary Affects of four new works by each of the ensemble members (via Avaloch Residency)
July 23, 2017
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Performance with Ordinary Affects of Antoine Beuger’s ‘three drops of rain / east wind / ocean’ (7 hrs)
June 17, 2017
DogStar Festival @ Human Resources, Los Angeles
Performance with DogStar Orchestra of Brecht, Krieger, and Corrall
June 16, 2017
DogStar Festival @ CalArts, Los Angeles
Performance of John Cage's 'Empty Words' with Tim Tsang, Jen Hutton, Eric Heep
June 15, 2017
DogStar Festival @ CalArts, Los Angeles
Performance of 'let it go beyond a certain point' by James Saunders
June 13, 2017
DogStar Festival @ Coaxial, Los Angeles
Jordan Dykstra's 'Pitch Gradient with Noise in D'
April 29, 2017
Non-Event @ Goethe-Institut, Boston
Featuring: Ordinary Affects (Morgan Evans-Weiler, Laura Cetilia, J. P. A. Falzone, Luke Martin); performance of 'so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless'
April 23, 2017
Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 22, 2017
Jim Strong - Fire Dinner, Narbeth (Philadelphia), PA
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 21, 2017
Red Room, Baltimore, MD
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 20, 2017
Rhizome D.C., Washington D.C.
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 19, 2017
Palanzo's, Pittsburgh, PA
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 18, 2017
The Canopy, Cleveland, OH
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 17, 2017
Robinwood Concert House, Toledo, OH
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 16, 2017
Sugar City, Buffalo, NY
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 15, 2017
MAC650 Gallery, Middletown, CT
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 14, 2017
Chateau Gelineau, Holyoke, MA
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 7, 2017
Open Sound: Third Life Gallery, Somerville, MA
Variant State [quartet]
April 1, 2017
Washington Street Art Gallery, Somerville, MA
Ordinary Affects
March 25, 2017
Open Sound: Third Life Gallery, Somerville, MA
Pauline Oliveros Tribute
March 18, 2017
Washington Street Art Gallery, Somerville, MA
Todd Lerew, Sarah Pitan, Luke Martin
January 24 - 30, 2017
Non-Event @ Washington St. Gallery, Boston: (THE) CO-INCIDENCE FESTIVAL
experimental music festival featuring 7 guest artists (Ben Levinson, Carolyn Chen, Chris Williams, Cindy Giron, Elizabeth A. Baker, Mike Bullock, Sarah Pitan), and resident artist Michael Pisaro; co-directed by Luke Martin & Aaron Foster Bresley
January 21, 2017
ABC Place, Los Angeles
Featuring: Luke Martin & friends; performance of 'a piece for leaves and ice (a piece for autumn)'
January 19, 2017
Val Verde House, California
Featuring: Tim Tsang, Erika Bell, Marta Tiesenga, Danny Clarke, Eric Heep, Luke Martin
January 17, 2017
ArtShare-LA, Los Angeles
Featuring: Sara Cubarsi-Fernandez, Ethan Marks, Luke Martin; performance of 'other-texts (3/SCF-EM)'
January 16, 2017
Ham 'N Eggs, Los Angeles
Featuring: sinecure (Luke Martin, Andrew Young, Ben Levinson, Isaac Aronson), and others TBD
January 15, 2017
4016 Michigan Ave., Los Angeles
Featuring: solo sets
January 14, 2017
the wulf. @ betalevel, Los Angeles
Featuring: Andrew Young, Ben Levinson, Ryan Gaston, Davy Sumner, Amy Golden, Luke Martin; perf. of 'so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless'
January 13, 2017
Automata-LA, Los Angeles
Featuring: Amy Golden, Luke Martin (more TBD); perf. of 'other-texts (2/)'
January 12, 2017
mise-en place, New York City
Featuring: Aaron Foster Bresley, Thea Mesirow, Leia Slosberg, Luke Martin; perf. of 'so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless'
January 10, 2017
Blank Space Concerts, New York City
Featuring: Aaron Foster Bresley, Luke Martin; perf. of 'other-texts (1/AFB)'
January 6, 2017
Washington Street Art Gallery
Performance with 'Ordinary Affects' of works by Morgan Evans-Weiler
December 21, 2016
Mobius Space, Boston, MA
Duo set with Morgan Evans-Weiler; no-input mixer, objects
December 17, 2016
Washington St. Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance of Cardew with 'Grizzlr' Improv Group
December 15, 2016
Rare Frequency Podcast 90.3, Boston, MA (Susanna Bolle)
Solo radio set; no-input mixer, laptop, objects, speaking
November 4, 2016
Washington Street Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Show with Andy Young, Devin Gibbs, Hallie Smith, Andrew Harlan; performance of 'stream, wind, reach'
October 28, 2016
Third Life Gallery, Boston, MA
Duo show with Andy Young; performance of 'stream, wind, reach'
October 20, 2016
Mobius Space, Boston, MA
noise set; no-input mixer; with James Bean, John Pax, Max Murray, Weston Olencki, Matt Barbier
October 14, 2016
59 Shepard St, Boston, MA
noise set; no-input mixer; with James Bean and John Pax
October 7, 2016
Washington St. Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance of co-incide, for a group (perf. by Luke Martin and ensemble)
October 1 and 2, 2016
Washington St. Art Gallery, Boston, MA; Providence, RI
Performance of a new work by Michael Pisaro, Morgan Evans-Weiler with group Ordinary Affects
August 13, 2016
Open Space Concerts: Darmstadt (Germany)
Performance of so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless (perf. by Jacobo Hernandez, Rosa Soler, Christian Smith)
July 20, 2016
Parlor Bar and Café
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performing with Andy Young
July 16, 2016
Conservatorio Superior de Musica (Valencia, Spain)
Performance of co-incide (perf. by Luke Martin)
July 15, 2016
Conservatorio Superior de Musica (Valencia, Spain)
Performance of shifting inflections (1) (perf. by Erik Drescher, glissando flute)
June 21, 2016
Automata-LA (L.A., U.S.)
Andy Young and Luke Martin at Automata (perf. of co-incide, for a group; perf. by Luke Martin and ensemble)
June 18, 2016
DogStar Concert Series LA (L.A., U.S.)
Performed as part of the DogStar Orchestra
June 16, 2016
DogStar Concert Series LA (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of recursive retent (perf. by Luke Martin and Aaron Foster Bresley)
May 31, 2016
Hochschule für Musik (Basel, Switzerland)
Performance of murmur our divine aphasia (perf. by Jacobo Hernandez)
May 5, 2016
Lecture/Performance Series, CalArts
A Lecture on Silence (perf. by Luke Martin)
April 17, 2016
ArtShare-LA, Solo Violin Recital (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performance of bland transition perception system (spring words rhizome wings) (perf. by Sara Cubarsi-Fernandez)
April 10, 2016
the wulf. (Los Angeles, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performing with Seth Cluett, Michael Pisaro, and Isaac Aronson
March 29, 2016
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Luke Martin’s MFA Graduation Recital (perf. of 7 new works)
February 23, 2016
Roy O. Disney Hall, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; perf. with Ben Levinson and Andrew Young
February 13, 2016
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
String quartets: residues no. 2: histories, residues no. 4: fragilities, residues no. 5: unfoldings (perf. by Jonathan Tang, Joy Yi, Yvette Holzwarth, Luigi Polcari)
February 5, 2016
Battery Books and Music (Pasadena, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performed with Ben Levinson and Andrew Young
January 31, 2016
The Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of many points (perf. by Mark Menzies and Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick)
January 23, 2016
Automata-LA (Los Angeles, U.S.)
String quartets: residues no. 1: remembrances, residues no. 2: histories, residues no. 4: fragilities, residues no. 5: unfoldings (perf. by Jonathan Tang, Joy Yi, Yvette Holzwarth, Luigi Polcari)
January 15, 2016
Center for New Music SF (San Francisco, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performed with Ben Levinson, Ken Ueno, and Matt Ingalls
January 14, 2016
UCSB Radio Show (Santa Barbara, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performed with Ben Levinson
January 8, 2016
the wulf. (Los Angeles, U.S.)
String quartets: residues no. 1: remembrances, residues no. 3: structures, residues no. 5: unfoldings (perf. by Jonathan Tang, Joy Yi, Yvette Holzwarth, Thea Mesirow)
December 14, 2015
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of ruptures (perf. by The Ensemble at CalArts)
December 13, 2015
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of this wild laughter, these cries (perf. by The Contemporary Vocal Ensemble)
December 12, 2015
1142 E 11th Street, DEDCAT Society (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performance of circles of possible convergence (perf. by James Waterman, Jordan Dykstra, Luigi Polcari, Keenan Dimick, Luke Martin)
December 5, 2015
Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performed with Readers Chorus LA; performance of i can still see
November 21, 2015
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performed with Michael Pisaro and Experimental Music Workshop; performance of Michael Pisaro’s living with the death of time and untime in the grey darkness
November 13 & 14, 2015
Automata-LA (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performed with Readers Chorus LA; performance of i can still see
Oct 18, 2023
The Landing Strip
Short Americans play "by our faint shadows going before us"
Sep 24, 2023
Amsterdam
Dante Boon plays "without content, exiled from my container"
Sep 18, 2023
Boston: Streetcar Liquors
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin, with Forbes Graham & friends
Sep 17, 2023
Philadelphia: Johannes Kelpius Center for the Emerging Arts
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin, with Jim Strong & friends
Sep 16, 2023
Saugerties NY: Verbatim Festival, Opus40
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin, with Winds Measure Recordings
Sep 15, 2023
NYC: 597 Concert Series
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin, with friends
Sep 14, 2023
Baltimore, MD: Red Room
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin, with Amy Golden
Aug 31, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin duo
August 18-27, 2023
Neufelden, Austria: The Station
Co-Incidence Festival (Year 6)
Aug 3, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Short Americans play Kory Reeder, Adam Zahller, and Max Wanderman
July 24-26, 2023
New York City, NY
Ordinary Affects plays Teodora Stepancic
July 23, 2023
Providence, RI: RISD Museum
Ordinary Affects plays Ordinary Affects
July 8, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Solo set
June 1, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Short Americans play Noah Ophoven-Baldwin
May 6, 2023
Beijing, China: fruity space
Sun Yizhou, John Wilton, Liang Hao play 'gathering sticks' (Luke Martin)
April 17, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Icehouse
Adam Zahller & Luke Martin duo
April 10, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Icehouse
Realtree plays Noah Ophoven-Baldwin
March 23, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
James P. Falzone & Luke Martin duo
March 9, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Derek Baron & Luke Martin duo
March 5, 2023
Ithaca, NY: Cornell
Ordinary Affects
February 26, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
T.J. Bordon & Luke Martin duo
February 9, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin duo
January 9, 2023
Saint Paul, MN: White Squirrel Bar
Solo improvisation, NIMB
December 18, 2022
Providence, RI: RISD
Ordinary Affects
November 10, 2022
New Orleans, LA: Scatter Jazz at Zeitgeist
Improvisation with Derek Baron
November 9, 2022
New Orleans, LA: Hi Ho
Solo improvisation, NIMB
October 15, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Adam & Elektra's
Improvisation with Max Wanderman
October 13, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Eagles Club
Solo improvisation, NIMB
September 11, 2022
London, UK: Hill Station Cafe
Pieces with James Creed and friends
September 7, 2022
London, UK: Hundred Years Gallery
Improvisation with N.O. Moore
August 27, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Patrick & Alana's
Improvisation with Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Max Wanderman
August 15-24, 2022
Lovell, ME: Hewnoaks Residency with Ordinary Affects
July 29, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: The Pink Slip
Improvisation with Adam Zahller
June 11, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Hearkening Concert Series
Improvisation with Douglas Kearney & Dameun Strange
January 2-8, 2022
Somerville, MA: WSAC
Co-Incidence Festival (Year 5)
July 23-26, 2021
Townsend, VT: Ordinary Affects
July 12, 2021
Minneapolis, MN: Adam's
Improvisation with TJ Borden
July 21, 2020
Non-Event at Home
'For James' (Luke Martin)
January 10-18, 2020
Somerville, MA: WSAC
Co-Incidence Festival (Year 4)
Sep 22, 2019
Saint Paul, MN: Vespers Concerts
Pieces with Doug Farrand
July 29 - August 4, 2019
Dusseldorf, Germany
Klangraum Festival
July 28, 2019
Berlin, Germany
KM28 Series
July 25-28, 2019
Neufelden, Austria
July 23-25, 2019
Aarau, Switzerland
July 20-22, 2019
The Hague, Netherlands
July 18, 2019
Huddersfield, England (with Ryoko Akama)
July 15-18
London, England
May 19, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: traces of the divine (Ordinary Affects)
May 18, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: ghosts (Chris Strunk, Andrea Pensado, Jennie Gottschalk, Luke Martin)
May 17, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: reading (Andy Graydon, Jose Rivera, Rahul Nair, Luke Martin)
May 16, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: each day i must think of 20, 50 people (Jose Rivera, Rahul Nair, Luke Martin)
May 15, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: transparencies (Luke Martin)
April 24-29, 2019
Venice, Italy
Sound Kite Orchestra (with Florian Dombois)
April 7, 2019
Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
April 6, 2019
The Red Room, Baltimore
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
April 5, 2019
Columbia University, New York City
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
April 4, 2019
Bowerbird, Philadelphia
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
April 3, 2019
Non-Event, Boston
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
April 1, 2019
New England Conservatory, Boston
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg
January 11-20, 2019
WSAC, Somerville
The Co-Incidence Festival (Year 3)
November 30, 2018
Emerson College, Boston
Guest Artist Lecture
November 14, 2018
New England Conservatory, Boston
Ordinary Affects + Christian Wolff (New Work 'For Ordinary Affects')
November 2, 2018
Wesleyan University, CT
JPA Falzone Recital
Oct 26-28, 2018
SITE/less, Chicago
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]
Oct 23, 2018
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]
Oct 19, 2018
Dartmouth College: Concert & Workshop
Ordinary Affects + Eva-Maria Houben
Oct 16, 2018
The Yard, Boston: Concert
Standing Waves, feat Eva-Maria Houben, perf with Ordinary Affects
Oct 15, 2018
Spectrum, NYC: Concert
Ordinary Affects + Eva-Maria Houben
Oct 13-14, 2018
Wesleyan University: Recording & Workshop
Ordinary Affects + Eva-Maria Houben
Sep 15, 2018
Fog X Flo (Fujiko Nakaya Fog Sculptures)
"practices in the imaginary: reading" (12 hours), perf by Luke Martin & Aaron Foster Breilyn
Aug 28, 2018
Yellowfish Performance Art Festival (Seattle)
"recursive retent" perf by Luke Martin & Aaron Foster Breilyn
Aug 9, 2018
Aviary Gallery, JP
"potentially together (3)," "possible deltas," "stück 2004(2)" perf by Luke Martin
Jul 22, 2018
MIT Press Bookstore
Standing Waves feat Nomi Epstein, perf by Ordinary Affects
June 24, 2018
MIT Press Bookstore
Standing Waves feat Derek Baron, perf by Ordinary Affects
June 11-17, 2018
Performances at DogStar Festival, Los Angeles
May 20, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ RISD
Performance of new works by OA
April 4, 2018
Santa Monica Library Public Library
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]
April 7, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ RISD
Performance of 'Ascending Series' by Michael Pisaro
April 6, 2018
SUNY Stony Brook, DMA Flute Recital
(Public) performance of 'possible deltas'
March 26, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ Wesleyan
Performance with Jordan Dykstra of new works by Dykstra
March 23, 2018
Pitzer College Art Galleries
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]
March 18, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ RISD
New durational work by Jordan Dykstra
March 10, 2018
the wulf., Los Angeles
Performance of 'practice (1)' and works by Amy Golden, Tim Tsang & Parch Es, and Marta Tiesenga
January 19 - 28, 2018
The Co-Incidence Festival
Washington Street Art Center, Somerville MA
January 17, 2018
Midway Series, Jamaica Plain MA
Solo performance "now is the moment to learn hope" by Antoine Beuger
November 12, 2017
Standing Waves #11, EMW Bookstore, Cambridge MA
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey
November 11, 2017
Recording Session
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey
November 10, 2017
Dartmouth College
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey
November 9, 2017
Wesleyan University
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey
November 8, 2017
Non-Event / swissnex, Cambridge, MA
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey
October 22, 2017
Standing Waves, Cambridge, MA
Ordinary Affects performs Andre Cormier
September 28, 2017
Third Life Studios, Somerville, MA
OpenSound: Performance with Grizzler (new piece)
September 23, 2017
Vernon St. Studios, Somerville, MA
Ordinary Affects performs Patrick Farmer and Doug Farrand
September 22, 2017
The Goethe-Institut, Boston (Non-Event)
Installation: 'Time Transcriptions' // solo improvisation (no-input mixer)
August 17, 2017
Blue Bag Records, Cambridge, MA
Duo w/ Morgan Evans-Weiler
August 6, 2017
Third Life Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance with Katie Porter of Michael Pisaro’s ‘asleep, street, pipes, tones’ / Brian Eubanks 'Object VII'
August 6, 2017
Washington St. Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance with Ordinary Affects of four new works by each of the ensemble members (via Avaloch Residency)
July 23, 2017
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Performance with Ordinary Affects of Antoine Beuger’s ‘three drops of rain / east wind / ocean’ (7 hrs)
June 17, 2017
DogStar Festival @ Human Resources, Los Angeles
Performance with DogStar Orchestra of Brecht, Krieger, and Corrall
June 16, 2017
DogStar Festival @ CalArts, Los Angeles
Performance of John Cage's 'Empty Words' with Tim Tsang, Jen Hutton, Eric Heep
June 15, 2017
DogStar Festival @ CalArts, Los Angeles
Performance of 'let it go beyond a certain point' by James Saunders
June 13, 2017
DogStar Festival @ Coaxial, Los Angeles
Jordan Dykstra's 'Pitch Gradient with Noise in D'
April 29, 2017
Non-Event @ Goethe-Institut, Boston
Featuring: Ordinary Affects (Morgan Evans-Weiler, Laura Cetilia, J. P. A. Falzone, Luke Martin); performance of 'so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless'
April 23, 2017
Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 22, 2017
Jim Strong - Fire Dinner, Narbeth (Philadelphia), PA
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 21, 2017
Red Room, Baltimore, MD
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 20, 2017
Rhizome D.C., Washington D.C.
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 19, 2017
Palanzo's, Pittsburgh, PA
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 18, 2017
The Canopy, Cleveland, OH
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 17, 2017
Robinwood Concert House, Toledo, OH
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 16, 2017
Sugar City, Buffalo, NY
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 15, 2017
MAC650 Gallery, Middletown, CT
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 14, 2017
Chateau Gelineau, Holyoke, MA
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)
April 7, 2017
Open Sound: Third Life Gallery, Somerville, MA
Variant State [quartet]
April 1, 2017
Washington Street Art Gallery, Somerville, MA
Ordinary Affects
March 25, 2017
Open Sound: Third Life Gallery, Somerville, MA
Pauline Oliveros Tribute
March 18, 2017
Washington Street Art Gallery, Somerville, MA
Todd Lerew, Sarah Pitan, Luke Martin
January 24 - 30, 2017
Non-Event @ Washington St. Gallery, Boston: (THE) CO-INCIDENCE FESTIVAL
experimental music festival featuring 7 guest artists (Ben Levinson, Carolyn Chen, Chris Williams, Cindy Giron, Elizabeth A. Baker, Mike Bullock, Sarah Pitan), and resident artist Michael Pisaro; co-directed by Luke Martin & Aaron Foster Bresley
January 21, 2017
ABC Place, Los Angeles
Featuring: Luke Martin & friends; performance of 'a piece for leaves and ice (a piece for autumn)'
January 19, 2017
Val Verde House, California
Featuring: Tim Tsang, Erika Bell, Marta Tiesenga, Danny Clarke, Eric Heep, Luke Martin
January 17, 2017
ArtShare-LA, Los Angeles
Featuring: Sara Cubarsi-Fernandez, Ethan Marks, Luke Martin; performance of 'other-texts (3/SCF-EM)'
January 16, 2017
Ham 'N Eggs, Los Angeles
Featuring: sinecure (Luke Martin, Andrew Young, Ben Levinson, Isaac Aronson), and others TBD
January 15, 2017
4016 Michigan Ave., Los Angeles
Featuring: solo sets
January 14, 2017
the wulf. @ betalevel, Los Angeles
Featuring: Andrew Young, Ben Levinson, Ryan Gaston, Davy Sumner, Amy Golden, Luke Martin; perf. of 'so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless'
January 13, 2017
Automata-LA, Los Angeles
Featuring: Amy Golden, Luke Martin (more TBD); perf. of 'other-texts (2/)'
January 12, 2017
mise-en place, New York City
Featuring: Aaron Foster Bresley, Thea Mesirow, Leia Slosberg, Luke Martin; perf. of 'so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless'
January 10, 2017
Blank Space Concerts, New York City
Featuring: Aaron Foster Bresley, Luke Martin; perf. of 'other-texts (1/AFB)'
January 6, 2017
Washington Street Art Gallery
Performance with 'Ordinary Affects' of works by Morgan Evans-Weiler
December 21, 2016
Mobius Space, Boston, MA
Duo set with Morgan Evans-Weiler; no-input mixer, objects
December 17, 2016
Washington St. Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance of Cardew with 'Grizzlr' Improv Group
December 15, 2016
Rare Frequency Podcast 90.3, Boston, MA (Susanna Bolle)
Solo radio set; no-input mixer, laptop, objects, speaking
November 4, 2016
Washington Street Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Show with Andy Young, Devin Gibbs, Hallie Smith, Andrew Harlan; performance of 'stream, wind, reach'
October 28, 2016
Third Life Gallery, Boston, MA
Duo show with Andy Young; performance of 'stream, wind, reach'
October 20, 2016
Mobius Space, Boston, MA
noise set; no-input mixer; with James Bean, John Pax, Max Murray, Weston Olencki, Matt Barbier
October 14, 2016
59 Shepard St, Boston, MA
noise set; no-input mixer; with James Bean and John Pax
October 7, 2016
Washington St. Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance of co-incide, for a group (perf. by Luke Martin and ensemble)
October 1 and 2, 2016
Washington St. Art Gallery, Boston, MA; Providence, RI
Performance of a new work by Michael Pisaro, Morgan Evans-Weiler with group Ordinary Affects
August 13, 2016
Open Space Concerts: Darmstadt (Germany)
Performance of so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless (perf. by Jacobo Hernandez, Rosa Soler, Christian Smith)
July 20, 2016
Parlor Bar and Café
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performing with Andy Young
July 16, 2016
Conservatorio Superior de Musica (Valencia, Spain)
Performance of co-incide (perf. by Luke Martin)
July 15, 2016
Conservatorio Superior de Musica (Valencia, Spain)
Performance of shifting inflections (1) (perf. by Erik Drescher, glissando flute)
June 21, 2016
Automata-LA (L.A., U.S.)
Andy Young and Luke Martin at Automata (perf. of co-incide, for a group; perf. by Luke Martin and ensemble)
June 18, 2016
DogStar Concert Series LA (L.A., U.S.)
Performed as part of the DogStar Orchestra
June 16, 2016
DogStar Concert Series LA (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of recursive retent (perf. by Luke Martin and Aaron Foster Bresley)
May 31, 2016
Hochschule für Musik (Basel, Switzerland)
Performance of murmur our divine aphasia (perf. by Jacobo Hernandez)
May 5, 2016
Lecture/Performance Series, CalArts
A Lecture on Silence (perf. by Luke Martin)
April 17, 2016
ArtShare-LA, Solo Violin Recital (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performance of bland transition perception system (spring words rhizome wings) (perf. by Sara Cubarsi-Fernandez)
April 10, 2016
the wulf. (Los Angeles, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performing with Seth Cluett, Michael Pisaro, and Isaac Aronson
March 29, 2016
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Luke Martin’s MFA Graduation Recital (perf. of 7 new works)
February 23, 2016
Roy O. Disney Hall, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; perf. with Ben Levinson and Andrew Young
February 13, 2016
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
String quartets: residues no. 2: histories, residues no. 4: fragilities, residues no. 5: unfoldings (perf. by Jonathan Tang, Joy Yi, Yvette Holzwarth, Luigi Polcari)
February 5, 2016
Battery Books and Music (Pasadena, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performed with Ben Levinson and Andrew Young
January 31, 2016
The Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of many points (perf. by Mark Menzies and Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick)
January 23, 2016
Automata-LA (Los Angeles, U.S.)
String quartets: residues no. 1: remembrances, residues no. 2: histories, residues no. 4: fragilities, residues no. 5: unfoldings (perf. by Jonathan Tang, Joy Yi, Yvette Holzwarth, Luigi Polcari)
January 15, 2016
Center for New Music SF (San Francisco, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performed with Ben Levinson, Ken Ueno, and Matt Ingalls
January 14, 2016
UCSB Radio Show (Santa Barbara, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performed with Ben Levinson
January 8, 2016
the wulf. (Los Angeles, U.S.)
String quartets: residues no. 1: remembrances, residues no. 3: structures, residues no. 5: unfoldings (perf. by Jonathan Tang, Joy Yi, Yvette Holzwarth, Thea Mesirow)
December 14, 2015
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of ruptures (perf. by The Ensemble at CalArts)
December 13, 2015
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of this wild laughter, these cries (perf. by The Contemporary Vocal Ensemble)
December 12, 2015
1142 E 11th Street, DEDCAT Society (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performance of circles of possible convergence (perf. by James Waterman, Jordan Dykstra, Luigi Polcari, Keenan Dimick, Luke Martin)
December 5, 2015
Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performed with Readers Chorus LA; performance of i can still see
November 21, 2015
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performed with Michael Pisaro and Experimental Music Workshop; performance of Michael Pisaro’s living with the death of time and untime in the grey darkness
November 13 & 14, 2015
Automata-LA (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performed with Readers Chorus LA; performance of i can still see
