Thursday, July 30th at 8 PM

The voice-and-trumpet duo ensemble Gleason’s Twins will perform an evening of modern art songs and improvisations with sound and text in JP Concerts. Gleason’s Twins feature Kristin Slipp on vocals and Joe Moffett on vocals and trumpet. $5 admission at the door.

Gleason’s Twins is an ensemble obsessed with the blur between speech and music, word and sound. The duo performs a kind of modern art song in which the group sets its own poems to music, infusing pre-composition with improvisation. With an unusual and spare instrumentation, voice and trumpet, they seek to expand the sonic ranges of their respective instruments while finding ways for the two sounds to mingle, contrast, and collapse. The work of Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi is a major inspiration and point of departure for the duo, as well as the compositions of Morton Feldman and György Kurtág, and the poetry of Robert Creeley and George Oppen.

Gleason's Twins have appeared at The Stone, Goodbye Blue Monday, and Stain Bar in New York, and Mobius and the Outpost Gallery in Boston. The group was also invited to perform on Anthony Coleman’s "Barbaric Yawp," which took place in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in 2008.