Night One | The No Idea Festival Vernacular Residency with Ken Vandermark & Mabel Kwan

Thu, May 29

Join us for Night One of the No Idea Festival Vernacular Residency with Ken Vandermark & Mabel Kwan! 7pm: Film screening of Daniel Kraus’ Work Series #2: Musician 58 mins, 2007 Daniel Krauss’ film, Musician, works with a similar methodology as Frederick Wiseman—no voice overs, no talking heads—letting the camera capture events as they unfold in real time. Though Ken Vandermark is at the center of the action, he is not the subject of the film. Instead, the subject is the work it takes for every musician, whatever genre, to get their material onstage and is a one-of-a-kind document of this process. 8pm: Mabel Kwan + Ken Vandermark Duo Mabel Kwan and Ken Vandermark have worked together in various formats, including projects with the new music group Ensemble Dal Niente featuring new work by Roscoe Mitchell, Last Trane to Clover Five (2021), and performances at Big Ears Festival (2022). Since then they have played together in various improvised music groups; this will be their first concert as a duo. 9:15pm: Panel Discussion and Artist Talk Vandermark's resoluteness managing innumerable projects function as a springboard to investigate and understand the complexities of establishing and maintaining a creative life in music. Panel members represent different aspects of Ken's sprawling work as musician, label owner (Audiographic Records since 2014), Director of the Catalytic Sound musician cooperative (since 2012), concert presenter (Catalytic Sound Festival since 2020), and writer. Ken Vandermark - musician Mabel Kwan - musician Eric Drott - Professor at UT Butler School of Music and author of Streaming Music, Streaming Capital (Duke Press) Pedro Moreno - Founder of Epistrophy Arts, a grass-roots organization dedicated to presenting the finest in improvised music and adventurous jazz in Austin Texas since 1998. + more TBA Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! 22 free parking spaces onsite are first-come-first-serve.