Luke Stewart – Waterworks 2023: Festival of Experimental Sound

Luke Stewart (upright bass, amplifier), Live at the Waterworks 2023 festival in Boston, Massachusetts, April 28, 2023

Luke Stewart is a DC/NYC-based musician and organizer and has a strong presence in the national and international Improvised Music community. He is noted in Downbeat Magazine in 2020 as one of “25 most influential jazz artists” of his generation. His regular ensembles include Irreversible Entanglements, Heroes are Gang Leaders, and Ancestral Duo, Six Six featuring guitarist Anthony Pirog, and experimental rock duo Blacks’ Myths.  As a solo artist, he has been compiling a series of improvisational sound structures for Upright Bass and Amplifier, utilizing the resonant qualities of the instrument to explore real-time harmonic and melodic possibilities.

Video: Wenhua Shi & Nick Stevens
Video editing: Wenhua Shi
Audio recording: Matthew Azevedo & Lucas Bickford
Audio mix: Matthew Azevedo

Presented by Non-Event and the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum