The Lepidopterans & BARBEDWIRE (Fire Museum Presents)

The Lepidopterans:

The Lepidopterans are a "supergroup" with Baltimore/Philadelphia long-time experimental scene players Toshi Makihara, Tom Borax, Jason Willett and John Dierker. Each member has decades of experience improvising and collaborating, having appeared in a dizzying list of projects, bands and records. They bring out virtuoso chops and strange and humorous theatricality to live sets that are like celebrations linking free jazz, early electronic music, and noise.

Jason Willett (b. 1967) is an uncategorizable bassist, electronics wiz and engineer/producer who founded Megaphone records and The True Vine record shop and has appeared on (not exaggerating) 100s of albums. He's been the primary bassist for no-wave punk legends Half Japanese for the past 30 years. He's performed with tons of amazing artists - a few examples - The Ruins, Jon Rose, Jac Berrocal, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Yamatsuka Eye, Matmos, Ron Anderson etc etc.

John Dierker (b. 1965) is arguably Baltimore's…