Join us for workshop 5 at PWNW featuring new and in-process works by Allie Hankins, Ben Cohen with Dustin Carlson, and Friends After Good Sound.
Saturday, August 16th
doors 7p | show 7:30p
$10-15 sliding scale
$5 Arts for All (Oregon Trail / SNAP)
Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pwnw/1738056
workshop is a series for musicians and artists working in sound to present new and in-progress works and compositions. workshop supports experimentation, improvisation and composed sound and noise, maybe even "songs". it is an informal showing, a moment to work through new ideas, or old ideas in a new way.
curated by stephanie lavon trotter and presented by PWNW, the space supports acoustic and electronic works, as well as work that includes projection, lighting and movement.
About the Artists:
Allie Hankins (she/her) is a dancer, performer, and sound artist who once performed in a dream wherein she announced "Today I am Truit '' before jumping into a pool. The next day in waking life she learned that 'truit' is a word used by the lucid dreaming community to mean 'trout'. When not dreaming, Allie is a resident artist and steward of FLOCK Dance Center, and in 2013 she co-founded Physical Education, a queer performance co-operative, with keyon gaskin, Taka Yamamoto, and Lu Yim. Physical Education hosts open reading groups and lectures, curates performances, and teaches workshops nationally. Allie’s interdisciplinary practice has led to her professional engagements with choreographers Milka Djordjevich (LA), Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis), Julien Previeux (Paris), and Ruairi Donovan (Cork); and Portland artists Linda Austin, Danielle Ross, claire barrera, and Emma Lutz-HIggins. She is in a band called LTD Time with John Niekrasz and Shao Way Wu, and her other endeavors include doing step aerobics and learning American Sign Language. Her website is alliehankins.com.
Ben Cohen is a Portland based saxophonist and noise maker. He is interested in pushing the boundaries of the saxophone beyond traditional sounds and roles by experimenting with a wide variety of extended techniques. His work is punctuated by extreme dynamic ranges, wide open spaces and a focus on vulnerability.
Dustin Carlson is a guitarist, composer, and improviser based between Kaua‘i, Brooklyn, and Sevilla, Spain. His work explores the layered dimensions of time, texture, and motion through intricate compositions and immersive improvisations. At the core of Carlson’s practice is a commitment to personal and artistic evolution—an openness to transformation that informs his work across genres, disciplines, and geographies. Whether in intimate settings or expansive ensemble contexts, he continues to cultivate a thoughtful and distinct musical voice.
Friends After Good Sound is a queer-identified new music collective focused exclusively on bringing new works by local PDX composers to life. We seek to be a vehicle that overcomes the many trepidations posed to the lovely artists we get to work with when it comes to creating new work. New work is the pulse of any good music scene; it's exciting, it’s overrated, it doesn't work, it changes the scene and fires the imagination. Without new work concerts can be boring, predictable and prescribable. (F)-(A)-(G)-(S) isn't that. Currently, we are composed of four core members, James T. Hickey, Chanchito Loko, Mia Chavez Lysaght and Michael Anderson. All of which are multi-instrumentalist that come from a wide variety of musical backgrounds. You can find us as @friendsaftergoodsound on instagram and our website at www.friendsaftergoodsound.com