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August 15, 2026
Siphonophores
+ Morgan Barnard
Our third concert was headlined by Siphonophores: an improvisation-based project featuring Jesse Tatum on flute,
Peter Gilbert on electronics, and Nick Tauro Jr. with projected images. In the natural world, siphonophores are known as highly polymorphic and complex organisms, blurring the line between working individually and as a colony. As a human performance ensemble, Siphonophores believe in live performance and the creative immediacy of the moment.
They were joined by multimedia artist Morgan Barnard. Morgan works in the areas of public art, interactive media, immersive installations, and live cinema. His visual work offers audiences unique moments of observation and reflection through the use of lighting and projection, while his music is distinctly in the downtempo style, building up and then deconstructing as series of chilled grooves.
6:30 doors open
7:00 introductions
7:05 conversation with Morgan Barnard
7:15 Morgan Barnard performance
7:40 intermission
8:00 conversation with Siphonophores
8:15 Siphonophores performance
9:00 evening concludes
Opening the evening was new media artist Morgan Barnard. Morgan works primarily in light-based media such as projection, screens and lights, navigating the links between cinema, generative media, interactivity and data visualization.
His approach to music blends ambient texture, rhythmic experimentation, and cinematic sound design. His work often connects sound with light, movement, and dynamic visual environments, treating music as both an emotional space and as a structural force.
The main performance of the evening was provided by the audio + visual trio Siphonophores, which consists of Jesse Tatum on flute, Peter Gilbert on electronics, and Nick Tauro Jr. with projected images.
Jesse Tatum is known as a relentless musician, performing chamber music, orchestral music, operas, and solo works. They are Principal Flute of The Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Opera Southwest Orchestra, and is a Core Member at Chatter where they have performed over 15 years of adventurous music with this innovative Albuquerque-based chamber ensemble. Additionally, Jesse has performed many seasons with The Santa Fe Opera and the New Mexico Philharmonic.
Peter Gilbert’s music combines acoustic and live-electronic sensibilities in works for multi-media theatre, film, installation and the concert hall. He has taught at Harvard University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Wellesley College. Since 2010 he has been part of the composition faculty and a coordinator of the composition and music technology areas University of New Mexico as Professor of Composition.
The American Record Guide enthused: “Filled with the ghosts of sounds, he captures a dark, yet hopeful wonder through variation in color, mood, and the semblance of melodies.”
Nick Tauro Jr. is a visual artist and self-publisher based in Albuquerque. He notes that “image making is my life; it’s my passion.” Nick’s work has been exhibited in multiple solo and group shows, both locally and internationally.
Nick was a founding member of the Latent Image Collective (2014–2019), a group of photographers from around the world. Nick is also the host of the bi-weekly photography podcast Right Eye Dominant.
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May 30, 2026
An Evening with
Michael Stearns
Our second concert in the series was a special one, featuring one of the true pioneers of using electronics in cinematic and space music: Michael Stearns, presented in quadraphonic sound. It was held at FUSION | The Cell –
6:30 doors open
7:00 introductions
7:05 conversation with Michael Stearns
7:25 intermission
7:45 Michael Stearns performance
9:00 evening concludes
Seven
Garden Finale
Samsara
Of Earth
Michael Stearns is a Santa Fe-based composer of electronic, electro-acoustic, ambient and environmental music. His credits include eighteen solo albums, as well as music and soundtrack production for television, documentaries, feature films and special venues. He is particularly known for composing the music to Ron Fricke’s 70mm non-verbal films Chronos, Sacred Site, Baraka and Samsara. His live performances and immersive presentations integrate electronic and acoustic instruments, sampling, and ambient soundscapes he has recorded in locations around the world. Click here to learn more about Michael.
February 21, 2026
Celloquacious
+ Meridian Alpha
Our inaugural concert was held at FUSION | The Cell –
6:30 doors open
7:00 introductions
7:05 Meridian Alpha performance
7:30 conversation with Jim Coker
of Meridian Alpha
7:40 intermission
8:00 conversation with Keely Mackey-Gonzales of Celloquacious
8:15 Celloquacious performance
9:00 evening concludes
Air Transfiguration
Keely Mackey-Gonzales – known artistically as Celloquacious – is an award-winning cellist, composer, and interdisciplinary performance artist. She has been featured at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, won multiple New Mexico Music Awards for ambient music, and was twice a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition. Through live-looped cello and electronics, she creates immersive, ritual-inspired performances that invite deep listening, reflection, and connection to place.
Crossing the Orion Trapezium
Jim Coker is a software developer, product designer, visual artist; Meridian Alpha is his musical project. Jim got his start in electronic music at Stanford’s CCRMA computer music group. This sparked a lifelong obsession with electronic and experimental music, eventually leading to the creation of Five12 Inc. and the release of the Numerology sequencing software and the Vector Eurorack-format modular sequencer in the early 2000s.