Meridian Gallery presents a concert featuring Trevor Healy (guitar and electronics) with Aram Shelton (saxophones and electronics) and Kyle Bruckmann (oboe and live electronics) with James Fei (saxophone and live electronics).

Trevor Healy is a recent transplant to the Bay Area after moving from Brooklyn, NY. In performance, he draws from his education in classical guitar, Javanese Gamelan, and years of collaboration in rock, folk and improvised music. For the past three years Healy has worked primarily with 12-string guitar, feedback, tone generator and electronics. In the duo Paper Legs with percussionist Brian Osborne, he works by layering scraping and popping sounds with chiming guitar melodies to build meditative patterns. He also collaborates with Aram Shelton, as well as Julie Napolin in their group Meridians.

Aram Shelton is a multi-instrumentalist on saxophones and clarinets, a composer and improviser, and creates electro-acoustic music with computer-based electronics. While the music he makes is spread across a variety of aesthetic lines, it is connected by the importance of improvisation to develop material and express the individuality of musicians. Shelton studied electro-acoustic music at Mills College and focuses on live improvisational-based music that uses both acoustic and electronic instruments. His projects include Flockterkit, Ton Trio, the Shelton/Healy duo, the Pink Canoes, and Settled.

Oboist Kyle Bruckmann's creative work spans a dizzying aesthetic range, from a classical foundation into genre-bending gray areas encompassing free jazz, electronic music and post-punk rock. Since moving to San Francisco in 2003, he has performed with ensembles including the SFSO, Quinteto Latino, and new music collective sfSound. From 1996 until his westward relocation, he had been a fixture in Chicago's experimental music underground. Ongoing affiliations include EKG, the "rock" monstrosity Lozenge, and the quintet Wrack. Bruckmann earned undergraduate degrees in music and psychology at Rice University in Houston. He completed his Masters degree in 1996 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he studied oboe performance with Harry Sargous and contemporary improvisation with Ed Sarath.

James Fei (b. Taipei, Taiwan) moved to the US in 1992 to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. He has since been active as a composer and performer on saxophones and live electronics. Works by Fei have been performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, MATA Micro Orchestra and Noord-Hollands Philharmonisch Orkest. Recordings can be found on Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI, Krabbesholm and Organized Sound. Compositions for Fei's own ensemble of four alto saxophones (Alto Quartet) focus on physical processes of saliva, fatigue, reeds crippled by cuts and the threshold of audible sound production, while his sound installations and performance of live electronics often employs electronic and acoustic feedback. Fei joined the faculty of Mills College in 2006.