Stevie Richards (Melbourne, Australia) and Mike Meanstreetz (Los Angeles, CA) will be performing a duo of improvised saxophone, drums/percussion and electronics for a fall tour of the North American West Coast. Stevie Richards is a DIY electronics and woodwind player and performer currently based in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia. Stevie has performed in Europe, United States, Mexico and Japan and is an active participant in the avant-garde / improvisation environment of Naarm / Melbourne. Stevie has performed in many past and ongoing ensembles worldwide playing noise, free jazz, ambient and electroacoustic music both as a soloist and through deliberate international collaboration. Collaborators past and present have included: Morishige Yasumune, Tetuzi Akiyama, Takeo Toyama, Takumi Moriya,E-Da, Seiichi Yamamoto, Alessandra Rombolà, Geir Opdal, Øivind Olsen, Espen Friberg, Villem Jahu, Ryosuke Kiyasu, Whitehorse, Cavies !, Ray of Creation, Mike Meanstreetz, Robbie Avenaim, Doug Lynner, Jon Bafus, Masami Kawaguchi, Paloma Carrasco Lopez, Nuno Veiga, Arne Borgan, Andrea S Giordano, Nathan Hubbard, Rick Jensen, Sharon Gal, Johan Moir, Breeze Smith, Martin Q Larsson, Rory Brown, Simon Toldam,Rama Parwata, Aviva Endean, Akio Jeimus, Elvis Aljus, Moment Trigger, Matthew Brown, Brad Smith,Carmen Chan Schoenborn and Kota Yamauchi.  

Mike Meanstreetz is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist whose non-tradtional craft seeds new genres while reaping the fallen fruit of old. Auditory, visual, and word rarely appear in the singular, most often materializing in a tangle of synaesthesia. His rigorerd wabi-sabi invites the daydream and its ushering of both resonant and dissonant perspectives/perceptions in an inclusive synthesis betweenst. Most of his work focuses on the improvised, situational and shared, and is rooted in the belief that collaboration is a practical divination of that fount pushing all. Sonically his practice primarily explores and expands upon both more metrical genre adjacent sensibilities and more fluid extended techniques via drum kit/percussion, musique concrete/electronic manipulation, and harmonically loaded electro-acoustic nylon MIDI triggered guitar. In these various modes he has performed throughout the US, Mexico and Europe.  More than 25 years after his first experimental solo release under the namesake, he currently operates the 1234 Test Kitchen studio in Los Angeles, both the seat of his practice and recording love, and has performed and recorded in various combos including:  Anna Homler, John Wiese (Sissy Spacek), Los Angeles Free Music Society )including Joe Pott's Airway), Martín Escalante, Henry Barnes (Amps for Christ), Patrick Shiroishi, Hayden Jiménez (Hidhawk), Rob Magill, Tatsuya Nakatani (Nakatani Gong Orchestra), Arrington de Dionyso, Derek Monypeny, Divinebrick, Stevie Richards, Danilo Casti+Dalila Kayros, Pure Shit, Gasp, Whereas, Anything and Sobbing Honey.