Cecilia Lopez’s Filter Four // Melissa Almaguer

Cecilia Lopez premieres new compositions written for a fresh quartet of exceptional long-time and recent collaborators. Together, the quartet explores the boundary between acoustic and electronic sound. Through live amplification and processing, instrumental timbres are altered, twisted, and blended into vivid aural hallucinations where individual voices lose themselves in a collective network of sound.

Ingrid Laubrock saxophones

Trevor Dunn double bass

Dan Peck tuba

Cecilia Lopez composition, electronics, and processing

Opening the night is Melissa Almaguer with a solo set of tap dance and percussion. Her work explores the layered nature of listening and the ways sound shapes our experience of place and time. Beginning with tap dance and expanding into gongs, seed percussion, field recordings, resonant objects, and electronics, Almaguer builds evolving sonic environments where movement, texture, and rhythm become forms of storytelling through improvisation.

“One of the most compelling percussionists to hit the New York scene in recent years isn’t found onstage behind a drum kit, set of congas or any instrument played with sticks or hands: Melissa Almaguer is a tap-dancer, whose performances recall Whitney Balliett’s characterization of legendary jazz dancer Baby Laurence that he was “more a drummer than a dancer.” – Hank Shteamer JGI New York

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Cecilia Lopez is a composer, musician and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently based in New York. She works across the media of performance, sound, installation, and the creation of sound devices and systems. Her work has been performed and exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (AR), Center for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania), Roulette Intermedium, Issue Project Room, Ostrava Days Festival 2011 (Ostrava, Czech Republic), MATA Festival 2012, among others. Grants and awards include a New York State Council for the Arts Individual project grant sponsored by Harvestworks, the Media Arts Grant (MAAF) for Individual Artists from the New York State Council for the Arts in partnership with Wave Farm, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, the Jerome Foundation and Roulette Intermedium Commission and the MacCracken Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at  New York University. In 2019, Lopez curated the intermedia festival Folly Systems co-produced by Roulette Intermedium and Outpost Artists Resources that featured 11 international artists. Past and current collaborators include Ingrid Laubrock, Zeena Parkins, Carmen Baliero, Aki Onda, John Driscoll, Carrie Schneider and Lars Laumann among others. She holds an MFA in Music/Sound from The Milton Avery School of the Arts Bard College and an MA in composition from Wesleyan University. She is currently a PhD Candidate in composition at the GSAS at NYU University.

Ingrid Laubrock Ingrid Laubrock is an experimental saxophonist and composer interested in exploring the borders between musical realms and creating multi-layered, dense and often evocative sound worlds. A prolific composer, Laubrock was named a “true visionary” by pianist and The Kennedy Center’s Artistic Director Jason Moran, and a“fully committed saxophonist and visionary” by The New Yorker. Her composition Vogelfreiwas nominated “one of the best 25 Classical tracks of 2018” by The New York Times. Laubrock has performed with Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, Jason Moran, Kris Davis, Nels Cline, Tyshawn Sorey, Tomeka Reid, Mary Halvorson, Myra Melford, Zeena Parkins, Tom Rainey, Tim Berne, Dave Douglas, Wet Ink, and many others. Laubrock has composed for ensembles ranging from solo to chamber orchestra. Awards include the 2025 German Jazz Prize, Fellowship in Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation, BBC Jazz Prize for Innovation, SWR German Radio Jazz Prize, and German Record Critics…