VARIATIONS FOR DUSK 03.20.2025
LARUM w. Kirin McElwain: Larum is the soundwork of Micah Frank and Chet Doxas, a production duo merging improvisation and composition. With a rotating cast of collaborators, they create immersive sets and recordings blending woodwinds and electronics into shadowy collages—drawing from musique concrète, ambient minimalism, fractured blues, and free jazz. Kirin McElwain is a cellist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer working in the realms of improvised, experimental, contemporary classical, and popular music. In her sound and compositional practice, she uses cello, modular synthesizer, and voice to explore the tension between formal structure and chaos, western classical harmony and noise, and ideas of “goodness” and “correctness”.
David Torn (also, aka “splattercell”) is a composer, texturalist, guitarist, producer & whatnot of actual international stature, renowned for his unique musical voice which seems to span & un-define a range of idioms and styles. David’s creative contributions have graced & assisted the works of other musical artists-of-note as diverse as David Bowie, k.d. lang, Tim Berne, John Legend, Madonna, Tori Amos, Bill Bruford, Tony Levin, Mick Karn, David Sylvian, Chocolate Genius, Michael Shrieve, Steve Roach, Patrick O'Hearn, Matt Chamberlain, Meshell Ndegeocello and Don Cherry.
The New York Times described Torn's 2015 solo release, Only Sky, as "[an abstract landscape that is] both immersive and deftly disorienting." He is currently on tour in support of his 2019 release with Tim Berne and Ches Smith, Sun of Goldfinger.
Viul is an experimental musician and sound designer who creates lush ambient soundscapes that shimmer with warmth and subtle detail. His work explores the intersection of analog nostalgia and digital decay, evoking memory, reverie, and time collapse.
Variations for Dusk
is a concert series created and co-hosted by Micah Frank and Chet Doxas of the duo LARUM.