In-person! AIRLFT Festival

Co-presented by Fire Museum Presents, High Two Records, & Chiladelphia Celebrating the Philly creative improv and sonic arts community! 2pm-9pm 2:00PM Ashé Mystics: The Ashé Mystics are Kevin Diehl, Julius Masri & Joshua Marquez. They create a world of sound with electronic circuitry, improv and percussive underpinnings. 2:50 PM The Humanosity Project: The Humanosity Project are Dave Ross, Matt Lavelle, Pete Dennis & Julius Masri - a quartet of four monster improvisors operating in the extreme regions of Jazz. They first got together under a tree by a river in Philadelphia and have since performed in NYC, Baltimore and Washington DC. 3:40 PM Spectral Forces: Alex Smith is your guide enmeshed in the parallel universes of Philadelphia. In The Light of The Universe is in Who worlds are brought to life and death by the rhythm section of Julius Masri and Pete Dennis. Each song, a different aspect of reality, brought close to the ear. Histories- personal, aspirational, erotic, and revolutionary- are rotated for the enjoyment of its prismatic refractions. 4:30 PM Avant Guardian Angels: No description of the Philly jazz scene exists that does not include something along the lines of "And Elliott Levin has been known to sit in, buggin' out with his sax and flute..." Eugene Chadbourne - Allmusic. Elliot is joind by Dave Hotep Middleton, Tara Middleton (both of Sun Ra Arkestra & Jupiter Blue) and Jan Jeffries. 5:20 PM Emily Robb, Todd Margasak & Mike Szekely trio: Emily Robb has been a prominent figure in Philadelphia’s underground experimental music scene ever since her debut solo record, “How to Moonwalk,” came out in 2021. She is joined by Todd Margasak (Sonic Liberation Front, etc) -cornet and Mike Szekely (Unseen Rain, etc) -drums. 6:10PM Future Ghosts Ensemble: Thrumming drums and circuit-drench strings swirl with howling winds. A journey through immersive, experimental soundscapes with electronic augmentation. Joshua Marquez, Walter Gershon, Julius Masri, Pete Dennis & Kevin Diehl are Future Ghosts. 7:00PM Instant Arts Quartet: The venerated Terry Lawson performing with Matt Lavelle, Pete Dennis & Kevin Diehl. 7:50 PM: d' TING!: Percussionist Daniel Villarreal, recently arrived in Philadelphia will be joined by percussionists Tom Lowery & Kevin Diehl. 8:40 PM: AIRLFT: AIRLFT is a creative ensemble performing instant and semi precomposed music and sounds. We call them AIRLFTS. We are past students/collaborators of Cecil Taylor, Ornette, Sunny Murray, William Parker, Odean Pope, Sun Ra, Marshall Allen, Oliver Lake and more. For this performance AIRLFT are Kevin Diehl, Terry Lawson, Elliott Levin, Matt Lavelle, Joshua Marquez, Pete Dennis, Tom Lowery & possibly others.