Adi Meyerson & Dark Matter

($20-$30 | 6:30pm & 8:30pm shows) NYC based bassist, bandleader and composer Adi Meyerson brings her Dark Matter project to the Century Room for an evening of adventurous contemporary jazz.

Adi Meyerson (bass) Julian Knowles (trumpet) Christopher McBride (alto) Connor Sample (drums)

Dark Matter

The idea behind this project is kind of a push and pull between free improvised music to more structured music, with kind of a focus on what’s not written on the page and what ends up being created from the lack of information given, It’s all about tension and release.

The music is composed as a kind of space and time travelogue, creating tension and exhalation in silence and cacophony. The intention with Dark Matter is to offer the listener a place for calm reflection on our immediate moment through the synthesis of lyricism and more abstract sound.

As a bass player, Meyerson finds herself constantly gravitating towards linear melodies, while always knowing where we are within the sonic and harmonic language. With this project since there is no harmonic instrument, the focus is on melodic the & rhythmic aspects of the music, themes, motifs and creation of energy within the ‘hidden’ harmony the counterpunctal lines are creating.