The American experimental Antiphon Trio – accordionist Michael Century, playing on free bass accordion and Roland digital accordion (and pianist, cultural theorist, and Professor of New Media and Music in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York), violist and pedal steel guitarist Chris Fisher-Lochhead, and bassist Zach Layton, playing the 17-string bass guitar (and Associate Professor of music production at Ramapo College of New Jersey) – is feeding its acoustic sound into innovative composer, improviser, and sound artist Pauline Oliveros’s Expanded Instrument System (EIS).
The EIS was designed by Oliveros as a “time machine” for expanding temporal perception, so that, in her words, “present/past/future is occurring simultaneously with transformations”. The EIS uses
