In Concert: Tom Anchorsmith, Leo Zappak, Staubitz & Waterhouse

About the Artists

Tom Anchorsmith is a musician based in Berlin and Amsterdam. For the past twenty years, he’s focussed on the Serge Modular synthesizer, both live and in the studio. From 2003 to 2023 he toured and collaborated intensively with New York minimalist Phill Niblock (1933-2024). His music is released on the Shelter Press, PAN and Touch labels, and combines intricate sonic detail and raw electric power, with a very physical and spatial experience of sound. Acoustic phenomenasuch as infrasound and otoacoustic emissions (sounds emanating from inside the head, generated by the ears themselves) play an important role in his work, as does a deliberate, creative misuse of theequipment.

Leo Zappak is a sound artist based in Tokyo, Japan. He started recording environmental sounds in 2014, and around that time he started making multilayered collage works from elements of recorded sounds, analog machine’s noise, and simple electric tones. His works were released from the labels in many countries. He has also been working on an improvised performance since 2017. Using some electronic devices, he explores the structural possibilities of sound through the combination of simple tones. In 2022, he started his own record label, “zappak”, and has been publishing music by other artists on CD. In addition, as one of the label’s activities, he also organizes live performances for other artists.

Staubitz and Waterhouse is the Rhode Island-based duo of improviser Mary Staubitz and composer Russ Waterhouse. Their mutual interests in stealth field recording, post-minimalism, and tragicomedy manifest in works that collapse boundaries between high and low culture. As a performing unit they use found objects, steel turntable, synthesizer, and field recordings to generate tension, bewilderment, and belly laughs.

Music: 7pm (Doors: 6:30pm)