Ear Pollen April 6th 4-5 PM
A monthly improv duet series at the Atlanta Contemporary. The third installment, at 4 p.m. on April 6, pairs Klimchak with Bob Stagner, percussionist, teacher, speaker and a recognized leader in Chattanooga arts advocacy for over 35 years. Bob co-founded the free...
Ear Pollen March 2nd 4-5 PM
A monthly improv duet series at the Atlanta Contemporary. The second installment, at 4 p.m. on Mar. 2nd, pairs Klimchak with Ipek Eginli, an experimental artist focusing on electroacoustic improvisation on piano, voice, and modular synthesizers. Klimchak will play a...
Ear Pollen Feb 3rd 4PM
Looking forward to restarting the Ear Pollen series as a group of experimental improv duets. The first one is with Bill Taft. To my knowledge, we played together one time at a Destroy All Music Festival in 1988. This time, my rig will include a gong, woodblocks, a...
Atlanta Contemporary Residency Ear Pollen Part 2
The Ear Pollen Series started at Gallery 378 in 2020. Klimchak curated the monthly performances by selecting 3-5 musicians to perform a totally improvised concert together. The series was just getting started when Covid hit and ended it. At Atlanta Contemporary,...
Lebeato Lounge: Water Wonderland
An Art on the Atlanta BeltLine concert by Klimchak and collaborator Stuart Gerber in the McDonough Tunnel. They will perform three new percussion pieces, tied together with the idea of water. The compositions feature a homebuilt jug marimba tuned with water, several...
Ugly Duckling At Center For Puppetry Arts
The Center For Puppetry Arts is remounting The Ugly Duckling, a beloved classic by Hans Christian Andersen this summer. I composed an original score to be performed live by the actors. I also designed the set so that it's filled with hidden original musical...
Music and storyline for a podcast
And now, for something completely different. I was commissioned to compose music and improvise a storyline for an episode of the new podcast series, You Heard Me Write. From chance encounters, to lake spirits, listen as I, along with writer Mark Kendall and sound...
Klimchak Performance in Wonder Valley Experimental 13 festival
I’m premiering a new solo video for the Wonder Valley Experimental 13 festival on April 1st. The video features many, many gongs (almost all of the ones I own) and some drones on flute and a pair of windwands that I built just for this performance. Also, I’ll be...
New recording No Hat No Spurs Klimchak Live from Nashville
My latest release is now available on Bandcamp. No Hat No Spurs Klimchak Live from Nashville features some theremin, some melodica and a BUNCH of processing and sound manipulation. This is a remix of a live recording for Far Out Nashville’s FAR OUT FREE FEST which...
Interview in The Art Papers Online Magazine
The Art Papers Published an Interview with Italian composer Giuseppe Gavazza about my music and approach to art. You can read it here.