Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
On the evening of Friday, February 7th, we proudly presented Buildings and Mountains, the experimental sound project of Andris Balins (NY) and Casey Ruland (NY), Andrew Izold’s solo project Full Load of King (OH), the experimental music duo of Julie Licata (CMH) and Caleb Miller (CMH), and multi-instrumentalist Torin Jacob’s (CMH) project Obsessed with Sound, with Doug Leed (CMH) on visuals.
Supporters of our 2024-2025 season include the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Columbus Foundation.
About the artists:
Julie Licata (vibraphone, electronics) and Caleb Miller (keyboards, saxophone) are two contemporary musicians residing in Columbus, OH. Their performance perspective comes together in the form of the synthesis of their collective, individual approaches to sound.
Julie Licata is a percussionist/drummer, noisemaker, collaborator, and educator. Her performances range from improvisational soundscapes and works with computer processing, to solo marimba and percussion, chamber ensembles, orchestras, theater pits, Indonesian gamelan and West African drum ensembles. Julie recently accepted the position of Assistant Professor and Director of Percussion at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. As a performer, Julie focuses on promoting emerging composers and seeking new modes of musical expression with particular emphasis on improvisation and the integration of live analog and digital electronics. She recently released an album, resound/unsound, with co-creators Andris Balins and Brett Masteller; the album features percussive improvisations with time lag accumulation, feedback looping, and modular synthesis. Within this musical realm, Julie has performed at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US, the International Computer Music Conference, CHIMEFest in Chicago, IL, and numerous new music venues across the US.
Caleb Miller is a keyboardist, saxophonist, composer and educator in Columbus, OH. His work mostly focuses on midwestern perspectives surrounding improvisational-based music and projects. In addition to his personally lead projects (Gault, pincer, Here Here) Caleb plays, writes and subs in many jazz-adjacent projects (Waves De Ache, Yumbambe, Radarhill, Troy Kunkler 4tet), songs-oriented groups (Zack Kouns and His Insatiable Orchestra, Confusions, Francis Bacon Band, Taylor K Conrad), contemporary classical settings (dance accompanist, classical pianist) and other settings (solo work, audio work, Very Much Recordings, music videos, album artwork). As output he is most interested in productions that show a true synthesis of perspectives, sounds, individuals and communities. Music and projects that truly strive for some form of “newness” regardless of the setting, people or situation. Simply stated things that try to be “their own” in some way or another. Caleb also currently operates the Columbus-based recording label Very Much Recordings and teaches in the American public school system.
On the evening of Friday, February 7th, we proudly presented Buildings and Mountains, the experimental sound project of Andris Balins (NY) and Casey Ruland (NY), Andrew Izold’s solo project Full Load of King (OH), the experimental music duo of Julie Licata (CMH) and Caleb Miller (CMH), and multi-instrumentalist Torin Jacob’s (CMH) project Obsessed with Sound, with Doug Leed (CMH) on visuals.
Supporters of our 2024-2025 season include the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Columbus Foundation.
About the artists:
Julie Licata (vibraphone, electronics) and Caleb Miller (keyboards, saxophone) are two contemporary musicians residing in Columbus, OH. Their performance perspective comes together in the form of the synthesis of their collective, individual approaches to sound.
Julie Licata is a percussionist/drummer, noisemaker, collaborator, and educator. Her performances range from improvisational soundscapes and works with computer processing, to solo marimba and percussion, chamber ensembles, orchestras, theater pits, Indonesian gamelan and West African drum ensembles. Julie recently accepted the position of Assistant Professor and Director of Percussion at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. As a performer, Julie focuses on promoting emerging composers and seeking new modes of musical expression with particular emphasis on improvisation and the integration of live analog and digital electronics. She recently released an album, resound/unsound, with co-creators Andris Balins and Brett Masteller; the album features percussive improvisations with time lag accumulation, feedback looping, and modular synthesis. Within this musical realm, Julie has performed at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US, the International Computer Music Conference, CHIMEFest in Chicago, IL, and numerous new music venues across the US.
Caleb Miller is a keyboardist, saxophonist, composer and educator in Columbus, OH. His work mostly focuses on midwestern perspectives surrounding improvisational-based music and projects. In addition to his personally lead projects (Gault, pincer, Here Here) Caleb plays, writes and subs in many jazz-adjacent projects (Waves De Ache, Yumbambe, Radarhill, Troy Kunkler 4tet), songs-oriented groups (Zack Kouns and His Insatiable Orchestra, Confusions, Francis Bacon Band, Taylor K Conrad), contemporary classical settings (dance accompanist, classical pianist) and other settings (solo work, audio work, Very Much Recordings, music videos, album artwork). As output he is most interested in productions that show a true synthesis of perspectives, sounds, individuals and communities. Music and projects that truly strive for some form of “newness” regardless of the setting, people or situation. Simply stated things that try to be “their own” in some way or another. Caleb also currently operates the Columbus-based recording label Very Much Recordings and teaches in the American public school system.
