Andrew Drury at the 2025 Improv Spaces Music Festival. Photo by Kylie Spinelli

We are extremely thrilled to present the experimental sounds of the trio collective Andrew Drury (drums), Jill Burton (voice), and Chris Cochrane (guitar) for their Upstate New York tour and the Capital Region-based apostrophebeats for a special solo set at Mt Ida Preservation Hall (548 Congress St, Troy, NY) on Friday, October 3rd, 2025.

Tickets are available now for $20

Jill Burton

Brooklyn-based drummer, composer, improviser, presenter, organizer, and educator Andrew Drury wowed audiences up here in the summer at the Improv Spaces Music Festival with the Human Rites Trio. We’re excited to have him back upstate with this new trio collective with veteran improvisers Jill Burton (voice) and Chris Cochrane (guitar) as their Capital Region stop on their upstate tour. Jill is based in the Hudson Valley but was a fixture in the Lower East Side 1980’s interdisciplinary arts scene and has since also spent more than fifteen years studying and practicing non-invasive medical modalities including Reiki, Ortho-Bionomy and Sound Healing. Among Chris’s work as a Brooklyn-based musician, guitarist, improviser, noise maker, collaborator and composer, includes working with musicians Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Stew Stewart and Eszter Balint, Billy Martin, among them since the early 80’s.

Chris Cochrane

“apostrophebeats” is the electronic music project of Capital Region artist Dan Paoletti. Encompassing eclectic influences into a bubbling cauldron of production tricks in order to create a sound entirely unique to this project, apostrophebeats – now in its 10th year – is a restless effluence of sound, combining strains of instrumental hiphop, funky free jazz, vaporwave, cybergrind, chiptune, experimental improvisation, and drum’n’bass with a heavy emphasis on erratic rhythms, chaotic samples, and spiky synths. Each performance is a unique semi-improvised re-interpretation utilizing recorded work from the project’s full lifespan and beyond. 

apostrophebeats

We’ve been hoping to present apostrophebeats in a long form solo capacity for a while now, so we are excited to be able to hear this special set. We hope you will join us to experience this opportunity!

Alex and Adam
Co-Directors, Improv Spaces