PERFORMANCE: Corey Parlamento, Nathan Bowles + Lunar Creature

Three sets moving through electric guitar, banjo, tape, strings, synths, drone, and the stranger spaces that open up between them. Corey Parlamento approaches the guitar as both instrument and environment, letting small gestures, electronic interference, and slowly accumulating textures build into music that can feel as much like a place as a composition. Nathan Bowles pulls the banjo away from any fixed idea of tradition, setting its wood, wire, and rhythmic snap against homemade tape loops, wheezing keyboards, distortion, and repetition until old forms begin to blur at the edges. Lunar Creature, the Asheville duo of Meg Mulhearn and David Lynch, works at a different scale, building great slabs and washes of violin, guitar, synth, and electronics that can move from luminous suspension to something much heavier.

What connects the three sets is less a genre than a way of listening: a willingness to stay with a sound, worry at it, let it decay, repeat, distort, and change shape. Familiar instruments remain recognizable, but only just. Music of strings, electricity, friction, memory, and accumulated noise.