Cecilia Lopez’s Filter Four // Melissa Almaguer

An evening of avant-garde music opening with a solo set of tap dance and percussion by Melissa Almaguer, followed by the premiere of new compositions by Cecilia Lopez's Filter Four. Lopez's quartet, with Ingrid Laubrock on saxophones, Trevor Dunn on double bass, and Dan Peck on tuba, explores the boundary between acoustic and electronic sound, using live amplification and processing to blend instrumental timbres into collective aural hallucinations. Almaguer, a Mexico-born, New York-based artist, expands tap dance through gongs, seed percussion, field recordings, resonant objects, and electronics, building evolving sonic environments where movement, texture, and rhythm become storytelling through improvisation. Lopez is a composer and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, based in New York, who works across performance, sound, installation, and the creation of sound devices and systems.