The Stevie Richards, Mike Meanstreetz Duo was formed in 2023 through a meeting of two kindred spirits who share a love of touring and playing wild, freewheeling experimental music. They play improvised sets using Extended Technique Sax, Video Synth, DIY Serge Analog Synth, Tapes/Effects and Drums and Percussion. Sets can be anywhere from quiet conversational, improvisations to full blown free noise blasts.
Stevie Richards is a DIY electronics and woodwind player and performer currently based in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia. Stevie has performed in Europe, United States, Mexico and Japan both as a soloist and through deliberate international collaboration, taking part in many past and ongoing ensembles worldwide playing noise, free jazz, ambient and electroacoustic music.
Mike Meanstreetz is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist whose non-traditional craft seeds new genres while reaping the fallen fruit of old. Auditory, visual, and word rarely appear in the singular, most often materialising in a tangle of synaesthesia. Sonically his practice explores and expands upon both more metrical genre adjacent sensibilities and more fluid extended techniques via drum kit/percussion, musique concrete/electronic manipulation, and harmonically loaded acoustic-acoustic nylon MIDI triggered guitar. In these various modes he has performed throughout the US, Mexico, Canada and Europe.
Villem Jahu is an interdiciplinary artist, free improviser, synthesist & cultural organizer. He works with abstract electronic sounds in the form of live performances, sound installations, sound design for exhibitions, dance pieces etc. In performing live, important aspects are total improvisation, close listening to other players and instruments, high dynamics, fun. Operating both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians, dancers and visual artists, Jahu’s sound is strongly influenced by Musique Concrète, noise and lo-fi aesthetics, all that in playful free-improvisational mixture.