PT.FWD

Last night was such a beautiful show ✨

Thanks to everyone who came out!

pt.fwd will be taking our usual winter break from hosting concerts, but stay tuned for other events in the community until we're back in the spring!

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🌞 It was so nice to see at the Sugar Creek Arts Festival in Uptown Normal this morning! 🌞

Catch them again on Tuesday, October 21!

pt.fwd presents Cole Pulice, with Swim Ignorant Fire
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 6:30pm
McLean County Museum of History
200 N. Main St
Bloomington, IL

Saxophonist, composer and improviser .pulice (Oakland, CA) traffics in shimmering, otherworldly beauty. On Land’s End Eternal, their first album for , the Oakland, CA-based artist expands their compositional palette beyond signal-processed saxophone to include layers of electric guitar and lush choral arrangements. The result is a prismatic collection of pastoral chamber jazz in six parts. Cole’s previous release, a 22-minute electroacoustic odyssey titled "If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You In the Pasture" (Longform Editions, 2023), was named ‘Best New Music’ by Pitchfork and included in the publication’s Best Songs Of The 2020s. Cole has also released a smattering of solo and collaborative work on beloved labels including Moon Glyph, Aural Canyon and Cached Media. Their performance history includes appearances at Pitchfork Music Festival (UK), Rewire (NL), ÜBERJAZZ (DE), Drone Not Drones (US), & Noise Pop Festival (US).

Local artist (ft. Stefen Robinson , Nate Hahn , and Michael Carlson ) will perform tracks and jams from their latest release on .

This concert is generously funded by the Mirza Foundation.

Don't miss it!!!

Link in bio! 🔗

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All .fwd concerts are free and open to the public.

pt.fwd is an independent, artist-run 501c3 non-profit that organizes contemporary music and sonic arts performances in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.

pt.fwd's mission is to celebrate the communal experience of coming together to listen to powerful new sonic art. In partnership with the McLean County Museum of History, pt.fwd promotes new work by local and regional artists in a historic, acoustically curious setting.

www.ptfwd.org

pt.fwd and the are honored to present live, tomorrow (Tuesday, March 11, 2025). Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of the world’s most enthralling sound artists!

Fujita will perform a concert in the Old Courtroom at the Museum at 7pm. This concert will showcase Fujita’s audio-visual performance techniques, including his signature handcrafted pipe organ, amplified electronics, and large-scale video. Local artist will open the concert with songs from his new album from Island House Records. This concert is free and open to the public.

FUJI||||||||||TA is a Sound Artist living in Japan. His unique practice utilizes various natural phenomena that respond to his interest in wanting to hear unheard sounds and unknown sounds. Instead of playing a composed piece of music, he aims to go as far as possible towards his own unknown state of being, with an emphasis on observing the sound closely.

In 2009 Fujita hand fabricated a Pipe Organ that has only 11 pipes and no keyboard. Fujita conceived and built it using his imagination, without any prior or specialized knowledge. The air pump (called “FUIGO”) which is kept moving by the left hand when playing, and is based on associations with an ancient blacksmith. This unique instrument is too delicate in its nature to be played properly without a great deal of experimentation and trial and error. Fujita has spent a long time inventing ways to play it and experimenting with ways to utilise this instrument in sound systems.