Friends After Good Sound is proud to announce our fall show happening November 8th 2025
Location: Leaven community center
Doors @ 7:30 pm, tickets will be on a sliding scale from $10 - $30
Opener Ben Cohen-Chen
This concert will be showcasing three new works by our fabulous fall composers - Warm Canopy, TJ Thompson and Violet Heger. Each have given us truly amazing workshop sessions over the past few weeks and we can’t wait to share what we’ve come up with.
Mark your calendars for the newest of Portland’s new.
About the Composers
Former Brooklynite turned Portlander, Freddi Wyss (they/them) is a time-based artist who uses a variety of media to examine the spaces of communication, development and breakdown. As a gap artist, they utilize experimental music, performance, and hybrid poetry to explore depths of emotional processing–highlighting the spaces in between moments, words, and melodies. Freddi currently works under the moniker Warm Canopy, collaborates with the embodied movement collective Tiny Vessels, and plays in several Portland based bands including Fog Cutter and Karen Caskets.
Violet Heger is a Portland based artist transcending the limits of disciplinarity, finding amusement in gluing together the interstices of Sonic Arts, Visual Arts, Literary/Poetic Arts, and whatever else comes her way–resulting in compositions which are often irreducible to any single medium. Nonetheless, her passion for percussion is evident in the rhythmic inclinations underlying her work, be it performed on the drum-kit or written on a page. Similarly, her work contains and utilizes elements of cyclicality, fragmentation, and asymmetry. The result? Art-works which wear their aporias on their sleeve, allowing the audience to complete the Rorschachs before them.
TJ Thompson is an active composer and performer based in Portland, Oregon. He is inspired by the subconscious ideas that flow through movement, active listening, and the collaborative nature of music. With an ear towards experimenting, he especially enjoys composing for specific people and getting to work directly with musicians on a project. Excited by the endless explorations of sound, he is interested in composing works for a diversity of instrumentations, pursuing the unique combinations of timbre. As a performer he has long term collaborative partnerships with writer Diana Oropeza, in the experimental voice & drums project The Social Stomach, as well as the koto centric Multiverse Ensemble, with members of the Oregon Koto-Kai respectfully