Tough Pill 47 - Government Center, North Side

Microplastique (Chicago)

Ben Zucker: - pocket trumpet, j horn, melodica, toy piano, harmonica, percussion, sound effects

Molly Jones: soprano saxophone, flute, alto flute, percussion, sound effects

Josh Harlow: toy piano, melodica, percussion, flutes, sound effects

Adam Shead: wood blocks, snare drum, log drum, cowbells, banana bells, handbells, desk bells, elephant bells, shepherds bells, goat toes, splash cymbal, almaglocken, crotales, gongs, glockenspiel, bird calls, flutes, sound effects

https://irritablemysticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blare-blow-bloom

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Vicky Davide + Collective - world premier of "Ode to Pittsburgh Urbanism."

Andre (Flute); Caleb (Piano/Flute); Steve (Chair), ; trē (electronics); Vicky (flute/original score).

@musicbyvix

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Luke Farkas & Corey Hackathorn

https://ofmusicandmind.com/2019/08/12/making-meaning-skeletonized-on-cannibal-cop/

https://simplisticscientists.bandcamp.com/album/idea

Tough Pill is a monthly creative and experimental performance series held every third Thursday at The Government Center. Tough Pill seeks to create space for practitioners and expand the scope of the creative music and performance audience in Pittsburgh. Featuring artists creating new and original work that centers improvisation, experimental communication, and moment-affirming performance. Aimed to facilitate diversity on all levels, including age, ethnicity, background, performance practice, and curatorial perspective.

Curated by Patrick Breiner, Adam Kantz, & eli Namay