Jessica Pavone / Anna Johnson

$15 advance / $20 door

Acclaimed composer, violist, and improviser Jessica Pavone will release her sixth solo viola album, ... Is In the Air, on October 16, 2026. Released jointly by Relative Pitch Records and Weird Cry Records, the album will be available on CD through Relative Pitch and on vinyl through Weird Cry. A remarkable addition to her acclaimed body of work, it is the solo album listeners have been waiting for—intimate in scale yet powerful in its emotional and sonic reach.

For more than two decades, Pavone has forged a distinctive musical language rooted in the viola's natural resonances, intuitive compositional approaches, and a deep sensitivity to sound as a physical experience. With ... Is In the Air, she opens that language further, expanding the idea of what a solo album can be through the incorporation of electronics and two collaborations with guitarist Fred Frith and Fugazi bassist Joe Lally.

Based in Queens, New York, Pavone's work spans contemporary composition, improvisation, electroacoustic music, and collaborations with dance and visual artists. Across these practices, she explores sound as something tangible and felt, as much a vibration in the body as an audible event.

https://jessicapavone.com/

Anna Johnson is a performer, composer, and visual artist. Based in drone and hypnotic repetition, her devotional sound layers textural explorations of voice and electroacoustic instrumentation.

https://anna-johnson.bandcamp.com/