Three(f)orMore:
Ulrich Krieger, Chris Everingham, Mason Moy
Friday, October 30, 2026 8pm
Automata is thrilled to present Three(f)orMore, a riveting program of experimental music featuring work by Ulrich Krieger, Mason Moy, and Chris Everingham. Each artist will present solo works before coming together to create a collaborative doom improvisation.
Krieger, Moy, and Everingham each work with their instruments and electronics to make experimental music incorporating free improvisation, noise, and unusual sonic effects to create droning, vast, and often very loud sonic experiences.
Everingham's Searching, for fretless bass guitar and MAX MSP, is a just intonation composition inspired by the works of Sunn O))) where the player "searches" for their sound within the space. Moy's tuba performance will incorporate extended techniques with electronics to create beautiful droning soundscapes also rooted in just intonation. Krieger's saxophone and electronics work Universe: Four Cycles, combines the sax with electronics to explore the outer fringes of the saxophone's timbre. Finally, Krieger, Moy, and Everingham will join together for a free improvisation combining their instruments and techniques.
About the Artists
Ulrich Krieger is an internationally recognized German-American composer and saxophonist living in Southern California. He is known for his originality and innovation in composed and free improvised contemporary music. As a celebrated composer of chamber and electronic music, Krieger’s compositions are widely performed by ensembles in Europe and the USA. He works in variety of contexts from new and experimental music to free improvisation, electronic music, reductionsim, noise, ambient, rock and metal.
Krieger’s recent focus lies on the fringes of contemporary rock culture, in the areas of limbo where noise, metal, silence, and experimental chamber music meet. Not accepting stylistic categories, Krieger’s practice operates in the margins of 21st century genres while resisting the problematic trappings of appropriation. His compositional approaches include micro-sounds, microtones, reductionism, ‘instrumental electronics’ (instrumental music evoking the soundworld of electronics), drone, and noise; forms that often demand elaborate and nuanced amplification.
Mason Moy is a tubist, bass trombonist, and composer currently in Los Angeles, CA. He frequently makes music exploring extended just intonation, free improvisation, and Supercollider.
He has commissioned solo tuba pieces by Wolfgang von Schweinitz and Jack Herscowitz. Mason has performed with Synchromy, the Angel City Jazz Festival, wildUp, and Monday Evening Concerts. In 2023, he gave the US premiere of Ellen Arkbro’s Clouds for tuba trio at the Other Minds festival in San Francisco. He currently plays in the brass quartet Diapason, which focuses on performing long-form drone pieces and arrangements of early baroque music.
His compositions focus primarily on the use of extended just intonation to manipulate our perceptions of tonal music. His music has been programmed across the United States by the Hear Now Festival, the James Madison University Wind Ensemble, Kevin Stees, Matt LeVeque, and the Los Angeles Brass Alliance.
Originally from Missoula, Montana, Chris Pierandozzi Everingham is a composer and performer studying music as a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz. Everingham’s music usually explores just intonation in combination with indeterminacy and explorations of duration and temporal memory; some of these compositions have also integrated tools created in MAX MSP to realize just intonation harmonies. The primary mode of experimentation in Everingham’s music revolves around listening and perception over time, especially with intonation changes over the course of extended durations. As a performer, Everingham uses bassoon, bass guitar, and electronics to realize his own works and works of collaborators, including written compositions and improvisations. Before moving to California, Everingham studied at the University of Montana and performed with the Missoula Symphony as their contrabassoonist. Everingham also studied music as a performer-composer at CalArts before coming to Santa Cruz.