SPRINGCLING is the latest experiment in curation by local percussionist-artist Corey Fogel, challenging & augmenting what fits in a gallery, on a “music program”, within an acoustic setting, and at an event. “Salon” may best describe this happening that marries artists from all corners of the country; of Corey’s creative friend circle; of the media sphere. Proceeding these prepositions is a preposterously proposed presentation of presumably preferred praxes. P’rhaps we’ll see you there! 

sound, saxophone, food, voice, bass, drama, poetry, percussion, food, projection, electronics, performance, text, noise.  7:58 PM

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Sam Weinberg is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser from New York City. His work attempts to forge and develop a distinct intervallic lexicon which is both mutable and structurally coherent.
He has released three records for trio since 2023: Implicatures (Astral Spirits, with Chris Lightcap and Tom Rainey), and two with his long-standing group with Henry Fraser and Jason Nazary (Plays Quarter Notes and Other Notes, and Of Peeling Passage: Live at Sisters). Weinberg has also focused heavily on solo work in the last several years, which has resulted in the albums Academy, My Druthers, Live at the Oche, with another forthcoming in 2025.

Heidi Ross is a private chef and multidisciplinary artist who creates culinary performances, installations, and dinners for private events, galleries, public and outdoor spaces. Heidi uses food as visceral communication through communion—exploring sentience and interspecies connection through sound, touch, taste, and new media.

Cordey Lopez is an experimental musician and audio engineer currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Through original composition and collaborative projects, such as Gong Gaada and the Berkeley Gamelan, his work currently explores intersections of electronics and Indonesian gamelan music. Cordey also performs solo under the moniker Baby Aspirin DVD using modular synthesizer to deconstruct and recontextualize cultural aesthetics of death metal. As an audio engineer, Cordey tours internationally as Front of House with other experimental artists and is the lead engineer at Gnarnia Studios.

Meg Shevenock is a writer, artist and private teacher.
Meg’s debut poetry collection, The Miraculous, Sometimes, won the Marystina Santiestevan first book prize, judged by Bob Hicok for Conduit Books & Ephemera. Her poems and essays have appeared in such places as Times Literary Supplement, Lana Turner, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, jubilat, and Kenyon Review blog. She is a recipient of a writer’s grant from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award winner in Poetry. She is an occasional “reader” and researcher for internationally acclaimed visual artist Ann Hamilton.

Judith Berkson is a composer, vocalist, and pianist. Her multi-disciplinary work explores tuning as it relates to memory and perception. She explores small spaces between similarity and difference as in her String Quartet 1 where each instrument is tuned a syntonic comma apart. Her solo project, Liederkreis, draws on 19th century German lieder, noise, and electroacoustic performance. She is also a Cantor and officiates traditional liturgical chanting. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and on NPR. She has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, City Opera, Laurie Anderson and has worked with ensembles including Mivos Quartet, Wet Ink, Yarn/Wire, Experiments in Opera, and the Boston Microtonal Society. She has recorded for ECM Records, has written two operas. She is currently based in Los Angeles.

Corey Fogel (b 1977) is a composer, drummer, and artist based in Los Angeles. He works across genre and medium to explore many facets of improvisation. He approaches sounds, textiles, collaborators, gestures, and objects as viable materials for spontaneous, strategized, time-based experimental performance, often incorporating sculpture, video, music traditions, theatricality, and ritual. Fogel performs and composes in many rock, jazz, noise, folk, and chamber music capacities. He can be heard on over one hundred recordings as a percussionist. His compositions range from collaborative media scores to aleatoric ensemble compositions which use a combination of traditional and novel notation. For two decades, he has worked with alternative music notation, creating innovative and novel systems that encode and visualize the behaviors that comprise musicians’ improvisational vocabulary. His scores use digital design techniques to represent sonic trajectories, relational dynamics, and situationism in space. Once an exclusive transaction between composer and performer, this work has grown into site-specific, immersive mural paintings for an expanded audience. This creative activity became the subject of his doctoral dissertation, entitled Graphic Score On Trial – The Utility and Emergence of a Transciplinary Linguistic.

Ellenberg is an academic and artist who works across the disciplines of film/video, performance and theater. She began her career as filmmaker and video artist, screening her films widely at international venues, since creating her first film at Ocularis Collective, in Williamsburg in 2000. Her creative practice centers around a re-imaging of the gendered subject within contemporary American popular culture and mythology. In the 2000’s, she curated a range of multi-media events and screenings at venues including Monkeytown, Anthology Film Archives, Galapagos and The Horse Hospital (London). Ellenberg’s short films and art installations have been exhibited internationally at venues such as The Collectif Jeune Cinéma, LA Freewaves, LACMA, Gallery SC (Zagreb), Issue Project Room, Migrating Forms, La Di Da Film Festival, Art in General and EMAF (Osnabrueck). Recent Press; Art F City, Art in America, Bomb, LA Weekly and Hyperallergic.