Nate Wooley

On May 25, @chriscorsano @smithches and I will be playing as Folk Music in Rotterdam at WGW. It’s an intimate space so space will be at a premium. Put it on your calendar!

Revisiting the coyote series of solo music for the first time since being invited to do it @lampodotorg . Tonight at @triple_canopy at 8 with @hidingfrommystalkerok doing a phonopoetic take on Beckett. Sold out but the standby line might get you in! Thanks to @triple_canopy @cspenceryeh and @wilksllc for having me and letting me do something that scares the pants off me.

BLOW OUT TIRSDAG 19. MAI: Andrea Parkins / Joakim Rainer duo + Nate Wooley's Folk Music Joakim Rainer - piano, feedback og microtonal synth Andrea Parkins - forsterkende objekter og elektronikk Nate Wooley - trompet +++ Chris Corsano - slagverk +++ Ches Smith - slagverk +++ Konsertstart kl 20:30, dører kl 20:00. Billetter 250/190 (medlemmer) Bli medlem! 500, - inkluderer konsertbilletten. Blow Out! er støttet av Kulturrådet og Oslo Kommune. I samarbeid med Konsertforeninga. https://konsertforeninga.no Foto: Peter Gannushkin

“Metaphorically, the silence refers to our collective loss of unique voices. Primarily, it was meant to mourn the fact that I won’t get to hear Ron Miles anymore. And then, of course, that same mourning had to be widened to include Susan when she passed away. And then, on a meta level, these are the last sounds that we will hear from Columbia Icefield. The good thing about silence being created, though, is that the vacuum fills with new sounds and new voices. We can remember the old fondly while being happy that there is always something to keep our minds, hearts, and ears full.“ - Nate Wooley Link in bio to our conversation with Nate Wooley on the final Columbia Icefield album, ‘A Silence Opens.’ The album - out May 29, 2026 on Out of Your Head Records is a sonic tribute to Ron Miles and Susan Alcorn. As to the latter, it is a rare opportunity to hear the steel guitarist on some of the steel guitarist’s last, and strongest, statements ever. We discuss the album, what it truly means to honor the departed, Wooley’s new role as director at Pyroclastic Records, and more. Photo credit: Julia Dretel #natewooley #asilenceopens #outofyourheadrecords #susanalcorn #ronmiles

In less than two weeks, I’ll be heading over to Europe to make some music. After not touring for a bit due to a host of reasons, I’m really happy to be playing back this year a bit more. This trip includes the European premiere of After Nan Shepherd with @yarnwire and special guest @taraling and a slew of shows with Folk Music (@chriscorsano and @smithches ) hope to see some friends

OUT TODAY! The first and only single from Columbia Icefield - A Silence Opens (OOYH 045), the Ron Miles composition You Taste, is now streaming everywhere. You can listen via the link in our bio. The whole band sounds so incredible, and Susan Alcorn gave us an absolute gift of a pedal steel solo on this track. We’ve released two versions, the [single edit] is available on all streaming platforms, but you can hear the full album track only on Bandcamp, and we highly recommend listening to El Derecho 4 first, as it is a segue into You Taste. Columbia Icefield is Nate Wooley, Susan Alcorn, Ava Mendoza, and Ryan Saywer. A Silence Opens releases on CD + digital May 29. @pleasureofthetext @avamendozamuzak @ryans_riddim Including some pictures of the CD design by TJ Huff as well. We used a spot gloss to get a black on black effect, and they came out better than we could have imagined. CDs are in stock and shipping early, and this is a pretty limited run. Thank you for listening, we hope this music means as much to you as it does to us. #columbiaicefield #youtaste #asilenceopens #ronmiles #natewooley

If you’ve talked to me for more than fifteen minutes in the last six months, my excitement over this book has come up. I’m a big fan of Craig Dworkin’s poetry and when I was sent an advance of his book on conceptual music by the might @uchicagopress I felt like the luckiest kid in town. This is truly great work. The scholarship is excellent and the writing is ripe and thick and wonderful to dive into. Unlike a lot of surveys, I only knew about 30% of what is referenced here so get ready for some deep rabbit holes. Oh, and it’s baby’s first jacket blurb (and alongside @blackfaurest , who could ask for a better day!) check it out at https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo263811657.html

Have been making this transition for a bit but happy to be a part of the @pyroclasticrecords family

Release day for Anthony Braxton Theater Improvisations on #EiORecordings. Check link for streaming and purchase options! Featuring @hellorobreese @kamalasankaram @pleasureofthetext @ilaubrock @james_._fei photos by @peter.gannushkin

👄 For Mouth Pieces, Triple Canopy has invited two artists to create new performances that attend to the largest orifice in the human body. Nate Wooley (@pleasureofthetext ) will debut a new solo work in which he reflects on how four decades of playing the trumpet has transformed his lips, jaws, teeth, and tongue. Maya Martinez (@hidingfrommystalkerok ) will take up Samuel Beckett’s Not I (1973)—a notoriously demanding short play that stars a woman’s disembodied mouth delivering a breakneck, riotous monologue—as inspiration for a new performance score that considers words as characters, accents as tones, and marks on the page as mutable gestures. Contributing editor C. Spencer Yeh (@cspenceryeh ) will moderate a post-performance conversation with Wooley and Martinez. The program will be livestreamed on New York Television (@newyorktelevision ). Mouth Pieces is free, but RSVPs are required! 🔗 RSVP now through the link in our profile.

Exploitation is ordinary. What Marx termed capital’s “sucking of living labor” extends from the 16-plus-hour days the astronauts in Ana María Gómez López’s essay clock up in orbit, down to the repetitive emotional labor of the checkout cashiers in the opera Have a Good Day! by Vaiva Grainytė @vaivagrainyte and co. The dream of ending such ubiquitous exploitation animated actually existing socialism, from the Soviet experiment (whose developmentalist relations with its “peripheries” are discussed in Olexii Kuchanskyi’s @olexiikuchanskyi essay on Sergei Parajanov) to the Grand Projects of François Mitterrand (the architectural legacy of which appears in Valentin Noujäim’s @vnoujaim films). In our historically quiescent moment for anti-capitalist utopias, Nate Wooley @pleasureofthetext explores the musical score as a site of militancy, while Jasper Bernes @outside_dadgitator interrogates earlier presumptions of communism’s inevitability, and Charles Mudede @mudede finishes by asking: Will Marxism go mad after the end of the world? e-flux Index 8 is available for digital download via the link in our bio. The printed edition of the Index is available to purchase from select art and design bookstores, as well as museums, throughout Canada, East Asia, Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom. The publication is distributed by @artmetropole (Canada), @asterism_books (USA), @antennebooks (UK, Europe), @l_pd_r (Europe), @tbs_book_society (East Asia), and @buchhandlungwaltherfranzkoenig (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Cover image: Have a Good Day!: An Opera for Ten Singing Cashiers, Supermarket Sounds, and Piano by Vaiva Grainytė, Lina Lapelytė, and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė. Photo: Modestas Endriuska.

You know what? Amidst all the stuff, I’m pretty psyched. Why? Well I get to be on the road with @smithches and @chriscorsano in May. We will be playing in Northern Europe as Folk Music, taking names and throwing hands at night and chasing butterflies and picnicking by day. Come join us for either or both depending on your temperance.