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Improv Spaces — Rock City Falls Trio & Sun Dogs
Saturday, September 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Doors at 1:30 PM
Duration: 70 minutes
EMPAC Concert Hall
Founded on principles of collectivity, experimentation, and deep interdisciplinary collaboration, Improv Spaces fosters community through risk-taking performance and creative exchange. The organization supports improvisation as both an artistic practice and a social form across New York’s Capital and Saratoga regions.
For TOPOS 2026, Improv Spaces presents two ensembles working at the intersection of experimental music, jazz, and exploratory sound practice: Rock City Falls Trio and Sun Dogs.
Rock City Falls Trio is Alex Chang (harp), Jason Handron (bass), and Adam Forman (drums). The trio integrates jazz language, classical technique, experimental sound practices, and indie-influenced atmospheres into a hybrid musical voice. Moving between composed structures and open improvisation, they emphasize collaborative listening, textural exploration, and cross-genre expression.
Sun Dogs, the sci-fi jazz duo of Dominique Vuvan (accordion, electronics) and Adam Tinkle (woodwinds, electronics), approaches improvisation through speculative and immersive sonic worlds. Vuvan is a psychologist whose research focuses on the neuroscience of music. Tinkle is a multi-instrumentalist and multimedia artist. Together in Sun Dogs, they explore the outer reaches of music. Their debut album, The Solstice Concert, is a semi-improvisational suite of soundscapes, harmonic territories, and synthesizer textures, where hypnotic moon bells, fractured field recordings, and shifting tonal environments open spaces for both play and deep listening.
Their back-to-back sets ask us: How can improvisation create new ways of listening, relating, and imagining together?
Tickets and pricing:
- General admission / Doors at 1:30 PM
- $20 individual ticket purchase
- $50 festival pass purchase (includes access to festival events)
Special offer: Purchase a TOPOS festival pass and get a discount code for the Improv Spaces Music Festival taking place at Saratoga Arts on Sunday, September 6.