Duane Pitre is an American avant-garde composer and performer. His work often focuses on the tensions between electronic sound and acoustic instrumentation, chaos and discipline, as well as site-specificity and performativity. The composer frequently works with long-tones and utilizes alternate tuning schemes that focus on microtonality, enabling him to explore unaccustomed harmonic intervallic relationships.
1. Barricades is a Pop/Rock band that formed in 2008 in Braintree, MA. They released their debut EP "Strong Foundations" in 2010 and are actively playing shows in the Boston Area. Barricades is Chris Norton - Guitar/Vocals, Jared Walsh - Guitar/Vocals, Justin Lutz - Bass, and Dan Norton - Drums. Chris, Jared, and Dan started playing together in the summer of 2008 with their friend Norm on bass. The foursome had been friends for years, and decided it was time to put something together.
Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is an American composer and visual artist. He studied with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. His compositions are based on harmonics, and thus just intonation, played either through a bowing technique he developed for his modified bass, a children's piano he specially tuned, or conventional instruments.
Alex Adams (born 08/01/1986) is a Finger style guitarist from Maine. Influences by guitarists like Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, and Ted Greene. His music varies widely from bebop standards to fingerstyle classics.