Performers listed alphabetically by first name.
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Sam Hafferty
Subtle button pusher, mouse dragger, and vocal gatekeeper who prefers the most rich of crunchy audible soup. (New York NY) ratemypraxis.com
Sam Potrykus
Sam Potrykus is an activist, musician and community builder in Jamaica Plain. He founded and runs the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Brain Arts Organization which publishes the Boston Compass Newspaper and operates the Dorchester Art Project venue, studios and gallery located in Fields Corner, Dorchester. He has played bass primarily since 2004, most recently with Boston rapper Red Shaydez, poet Amanda Shea and Boston Music Awards R&B Vocalist Of The Year, Miranda Rae. In 2018 he began writing and improvising his own music forming the country rock/noise band Ten Gallon Hat featuring Arkm Foam + Mickey O’Hara. (Jamaica Plain MA) Facebook, bandcamp
Sam Seda/Apis Malfiore
Apis malfiore is an outlet for the manifold anxieties of the world today. Heavy drones and shimmering harmony facilitate an inward turn, guiding thoughts towards and through bleak and harsh truths. Concordant dissonance abounds as right and wrong notes layer and coalesce into an ever-changing temple of sound that is gradually built, disassembled, and dismissed, hopefully carrying some negativities, my own and those offered by listeners, with it into a silence somehow larger than the one preceding it. Bridging harsh and ambient, Deep Listeners will be rewarded. (Portland ME) Bandcamp; Youtube
Sam Tremble
Sam plays a homemade drumset and vibraphone. in School Dance. (Philadelphia PA) schooldancetheband.com
Sam Wenc
Sam Wenc (b 1990; Western Mass) is a multi-instrumentalist utilizing guitar, pedal steel guitar, vibraphone, electronics, and field recordings. Performing under the name Post Moves, he has shifted between songwriting, drone, modal, and process-based compositions. Inspired by Henry Flynt’s concept of Avant-Garde Hillbilly music, he focuses on blurring concepts of “american” music. He has released music on labels such as Noumenal Loom, Obsolete Stairases, and his own label, Lobby Art. He splits time between Western Massachusetts and Brooklyn, NY. (Brooklyn NY) Bandcamp
Sara June
Sara June is a dancemaker, performance artist and movement educator. (Boston MA) lordandjune.com
Sasha Wolfe
Sasha Wolfe is a Providence-based performer who studied dance at The New School. Her work uses somatic and environmental information to generate improvised movement, solo and in collaboration with writers and musicians. She has performed at the Vanishing Performance Festival in New Orleans, and two consecutive years at the Providence Fringe Festival, as well as various other DIY shows in Providence, Boston, and New York. Fringearts article
Sawyer Phillips
Sound and noise from an electric guitar and an assortment of cheap, half-broken, hand-me-down pedals…. all vibrations made with love (and some anger, frustration, and depression). (Amherst MA) Soundcloud
Scott Mizrachi
Music as a Second Language. (Jamaica Plain MA) Bandcamp
Scott Prato
Guitarist with big plastic finger and the brian wilson shock treatment. Jammer into helping make a righteous racket! (Holyoke MA) www.starrynightrecords.com
Scott Saleem
Lapsteel, melodica. (Boston MA) Facebook
Seamus Williams
(Worcester MA) Discogs
Sean Ali
Sean Ali is a double bassist, improviser, and composer working in a variety of projects and contexts. (Queens NY) seanali.com
Sean Saman
Multi-instrumentalist; “ethereal soundscapes are my thing.” (Harrisburg PA) Facebook; Soundcloud
Seth Bailin
Saxophone. (New Orleans LA) sethbailin.com
Setheyny Loeb-Pen
Drums and toy piano (Ralph Eats Dynamite, Loup Garou). (Lowell MA)
Shayna Dulberger
Shayna Dulberger has been an active bass player since 2001, touring and performing in many bands and projects. (Brooklyn NY) shaynadulberger.com
Shawn Dailey
Photographer, calamity. (Dover NH) Facebook
Shea Mowat
Shea makes some crazy and wild stuff. (ME) kraag.org/shea; Youtube and Youtube
Shogo Haraguchi
Sound artist, unit Gaiamamoo, trio PartyKillers!, duo HaraDa ShoGo and sometimes solo. (JP) Facebook
Simon Hanes
Simon Hanes is a California born, Brooklyn-based composer, performer and arranger, or “compformanger” for short. His work revolves around bridging his main influences; soundtrack music from 1960s/70s Italian films, contemporary classical music, and non-idiomatic improvisation. (Brooklyn NY) pioneerworks.org/residency/simon-hanes/
Sita Magnuson
(Holyoke MA)
Skizz Cyzyk
Filmmaker, musician, deejay, artist, writer, catalyst. (Baltimore MD) skizz.net
Sneff Grusso
Goof. (Kailua-Kona HI) cactuscave.blogspot.com
Sophia Marshall
Writer and reviewer. (Boston MA) All About Jazz articles
Sophie LeetmaA
Harp. (Western MA) sophieleetmaa.com
Stella Silbert
Improviser based in Western Mass, currently focused on working with turntable, radio, field recordings, and feedback. (Northampton MA) stellasilbert.wixsite.com/stellasilbert; Bandcamp; Soundcloud
Stephan hines/Denshi
Denshi started as me wanting to make noise with just a program on my computer, then evolved into a full project. I started performing by banging on metal with drum sticks, reading politically charged on stage with a microphone plugged into effect pedals, and performing with local bands in various forms. My idea for the projects eventually went from just making noise to experimenting with different ways to make noise. Today I use synths, sampling and drones, while adding a more physical aspect to my performance. (Houston TX) Bandcamp
Steve Albert
Minimalist videographer or something. (Lowell MA) Youtube
Steve Dalichinsky
Poet. (New York NY) wikipedia; in-memoriam/A-Tribute-to-Steve-Dalachinsky
Steve Norton
Saxophone, clarinet. (ME) allaboutjazz.com
Steve Anstey
Poet. (Lowell MA) anstey.org
Steven Davis/+DOG+
+DOG+ formed in 1990 in osaka japan and then was based in MAfrom 93-97, CA from 98-2016, and back in MA since 2016. +DOG+ is an experimental noise band and has released 50 albums since 1990. +DOG+ also runs love earth music and likes to make noises here & there. (Sudbury MA) loveearthmusic.com; Bandcamp
Sue Lynch
Sue currently runs The Horse Improvised Music Club with Adam Bohman, Hutch Demouilpied and Adrian Northover. She has performed with Adam Bohman, Eddie Prevost, Hutch Demouilpied, Richard Sanderson, Steve Noble, Crystabel Riley, Caroline Kraabel, Sharon Gal and John Edwards. She has performed as part of Tarek Atoui’s ‘Reverse Collection’ at The Tate Modernm and in 2016 she formed Paradise Yard – an electro acoustic ensemble performing at Iklectik, Café Oto and The ICA. In 2018, she performed at 3 Klange Tag Festival, Switzerland with Hildegard Kleeb, at Womad BBC Stage and Guess Who Festival Utrect, with the Scorpios. a psychedelic Sudanese band, and in 2019 with solo saxophone at Le Pied Nu Festival, France. (London UK) suelynch.wordpress.com
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