Doug Russell is a guitarist and improvisor based in Seattle. He studied music at Wesleyan University under Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton and Ron Kuivila before forming the Los Angeles-based free noise group Open City with Peter Kolovos and Andrew Maxwell. Open City operated from 1997 to 2006.
Kirill Nikolai is a Seattle-based composer. He has released both solo and collaborative works on Tonefloat (NL), Fluid Audio (UK), Apollolaan Recordings (UK), Reverb Worship (UK), and Ho Hum Records (UK).
They will be presenting experimental music for electric guitar in solo and duo configurations, including solo improvisation, a guitar based microsound and spectral piece, an original composition for two guitars and oscillator, and a performance of Alvin Lucier’s “Criss-Cross”.