Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Human Resources, Los Angeles
[Tickets](https://pools.events/t/di32a-rn/) The Unwrinkled Ear presents three sets of improvised music on Wednesday, August 19, where improvisation is less a musical genre than a way of testing what can happen when people, instruments and bodies meet without a predetermined map. Jacob Wick (trumpet)/ Marc Riordan (keys) Aine Nakamura (movement and voice)/ Georgia E. Bell (doublebass)/ Wilson Shook (woodwinds) Clementine Wink (electronics)/ Kelby Clarl (banjo)/ Adam Lion (vibraphone) Jacob Wick and Marc Riordan began collaborating in 2006, after first meeting at the Harold Arts Residency in Chesterhill, Ohio. Their twenty-year collaboration explores the recessed corners of musical possibility, often landing in some contradictory space between earnest collective insight and impish agitation. Over the years, they have come together from faraway cities to appear numerous times as a duo, while also sharing the bandstand for several formative years in Jason Ajemian’s traveling freak-jazz jam band, The Highlife. Their long-running improvisation outfit Tres Hongos, a trio with Amsterdam-based drummer Frank Rosaly, recently released their third album, More Chips, on Relative Pitch Records. Aine Nakamura and Wilson Shook have collaborated since 2023 in improvising duo, trio, and quartet settings with Kevin Corcoran and Fred Lonberg-Holm. Georgia Bell and Wilson Shook have collaborated since 2025 in a regular trio setting with Sam Rowell. Tonight's performance is a first meeting between Aine and Georgia. This performance will also mark the premiere of the Kelby Clark, Adam Lion and Clementine Wink trio as their banjo, vibraphone and electronics open the possibilities for sound to become unstable, strange, physical and newly perceptible. ~~~~~~~ [Jacob Wick](https://jacobwick.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) (1985, Evanston, IL) is an internationally-aclaimed genre-defying trumpet player, composier and improviser. His work is dedicated to and informed by queer feelings and queer politics. Wick studied at SUNY Purchase under Jon Faddis (trumpet) and Liz Phillips (sound art). He later pursued a Master of Fine Arts in the Social Practice Workshop of the California College of the Arts, studying with Ted Purves and Kristina Lee Podesva. His compositions and sound installations have been presented at Issue Project Room, Tonic, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and the Poesía en Voz Alta Festival in Mexico City. He appears on recordings by a wide variety of artists including claire rousay, Mabe Fratti, Helado Negro, and Federico Sánchez. He currently directs two groups. The Jacob Wick Quartet performs original jazz compositions that embrace queer time, a nonlinear and sentimental approach to composition and improvisation. The Jacob Wick Ensemble, meanwhile, performs graphic compositions and structured improvisations that reference folk, jazz, and pop songs. Both groups perform regularly in Mexico City, where Wick has lived since 2014. Multi-instrumentalist and composer [Marc Riordan](https://marcriordan.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) learned a pliable musical tradecraft in basements, attics, bars, classrooms, storage units, observatories, sidewalks, museums, chicken coops, garages, concert halls and bedrooms during a westward migration through Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Venturing repeatedly into the public square, he has slow-cooked a philosophy through extensive collaboration as a drummer and pianist, learning from peers with any number of musical and ideological backgrounds. Through it all, he has maintained a broad, personal commitment to creative experimentation.Marc is an active member of Sun Araw Band XV, The Red Krayola, Ragger (an electric ragtime duo devoted to the works of Scott Joplin), and the internationally dispersed Tres Hongos, a totally improvised music trio with Jacob Wick and Frank Rosaly. His recordings can be heard on Hausu Mountain, Sophomore Lounge, Relative Pitch, and Drag City. He also works as a film composer in the horror genre. [Aine Nakamura](https://evaaine.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) is a performer, artist, poet and improviser. She focuses on the sensibility and sensitivity in listening to hidden stories and performs using sung and spoken voice and movement across multiple cultural/transcultural sites, that are her interventions in traditional power structures. She seeks the potentialities of an injured voice and on the listening and sensing bodies. She writes words, some of which become scores, and considers shapes as if her throat itself is a membrane and body or inner is a changing shape or phenomenon among worldly phenomena, in relations. Through her practice, while aiming to be a vessel, she understands about herself and pursues meanings of lines, seeing, and connecting. In her recent transdisciplinary works and research, she explores the presence of wounds and repair, and the concepts of fragile kindness and love to access pathways to vulnerability. Engaging with sites, memory, and transborder soul work, she works in sounding/voicing, movement, storytelling/poetry, object-making/installation, and site-specific composition/improvisation. [Georgia E. Bell](https://georgiaebell.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) is a double bassist, improviser, and composer making music about friendship, solitude, dreams, and science fiction. Current projects include noise ensemble Gneiss, improvisatory trio Tall Tales, and psych pop group The Forgetmenots. [Wilson Shook](https://www.otherghosts.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) is an improvising saxophonist and manual therapist living in Pasadena, CA. A self-taught musician, Wilson approaches improvisation, study, collaboration, and performance as sites of radical experimentation with modes of being, relating, and perceiving. Wilson’s practice cultivates an awareness of human vulnerability and technological fallibility; embraces excess, fragmentation, and incompleteness; and pursues the chaotic, queer, and interdependent imperatives of an aleatory existence amidst a crumbling, toxic culture. [Clementine Wink](https://woodhen.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) was Raised in Berwyn and inoculated with a DIY work ethic in the Chicago punk scene(s) of the 2010s, she draws inspiration from sources as disparate as musique concrète, surrealism, disco, Catholicism, hip hop, psychiatry, and the Youth International Party. [Kelby Clark](https://kelbyclark.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener) is a composer, improviser and banjo player from South Georgia. Offering “a tone so pure it is almost a sine-wave” (The Wire), [Adam Lion i](https://adamlion.bandcamp.com/album/when-a-line-bends" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener)s a percussionist concerned with enabling constraint, perception, surprise, and coincidence. His performances blur acoustic space, creating opportunities for sonic frameworks to naturally emerge. Within this process new realities are imagined, encouraging listeners to investigate the hidden potential of reimagined sound. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live