“Be more open, universal, more cosmically oriented. Sooner or later, when one has achieved this consciousness, one will travel there as a cosmic tourist and by that show that everything exists at once.” – Karlheinz Stockhausen

Kat and the Devil is a genre-bending quintet of improvising classical and jazz musicians using spoken and sung texts to explore wide-ranging themes. Their performances are comedic, melodic, pan-idiomatic, theatrical, and full of surprise (for the audience and also for the performers themselves).

Previous evenings have explored Witches, Basho, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Hallucinogens, Communing with the Dead, Architecture, Satire, and Crime. The group takes its name from their first project: a concert based on James Joyce’s short story The Cat and the Devil.

Each concert dives into a new theme. This evening, they turn their attention to bad advice – drawing from the world of internet life hacks, quick fixes, and misguided guidance. Text and musical material may be drawn from László Krasznahorkai, Jenny Offill, Noémi Kiss, Rumaan Alam, Noémi László, Dave Eggers, and Karlheinz Stockhausen – the classical music emblem of artistic risk and questionable philosophies. Join the ensemble for a night where bad advice never sounded so good.