This intimate concert celebrates Juniper Fuse's first release "Nagual" for KAIROS (AU). We will play repertoire from both "Nagual" and new works based on an extended poem - “The Jointure” - by Clayton Eshleman (US).

Juniper fuse is inspired by pre-historic cave wall imagery found in the Dordogne valley of Southwestern France. A vital connection point into early human imagination and creativity, Caves can embody psychic wombs reaching back in time to explore the archetypal subconscious. Regarding planet-wide mental health, cave poet, Clayton Eshleman reminds us of the need for our “deep mind” or subconscious mind. “For it is in the deep mind that wilderness and the unconsciousness become one, and in some half- understood but very profound way, our relation to the outer ecologies seems conditioned by our inner ecologies.”

In the spirit of cave-art, Juniper fuse explores a labyrinth of unusual percussion including a microtonal vibraphone, bass se...

This intimate concert celebrates Juniper Fuse's first release "Nagual" for KAIROS (AU). We will play repertoire from both "Nagual" and new works based on an extended poem - “The Jointure” - by Clayton Eshleman (US).

Juniper fuse is inspired by pre-historic cave wall imagery found in the Dordogne valley of Southwestern France. A vital connection point into early human imagination and creativity, Caves can embody psychic wombs reaching back in time to explore the archetypal subconscious. Regarding planet-wide mental health, cave poet, Clayton Eshleman reminds us of the need for our “deep mind” or subconscious mind. “For it is in the deep mind that wilderness and the unconsciousness become one, and in some half- understood but very profound way, our relation to the outer ecologies seems conditioned by our inner ecologies.”

In the spirit of cave-art, Juniper fuse explores a labyrinth of unusual percussion including a microtonal vibraphone, bass selonding (custom-tuned Balinese met allophone) and two portable microtonal prepared piano.


Award-winning Canadian composer and pianist, Matt Choboter’s music paints subliminal sound narratives between the cracks of avant-jazz, experimental and contemporary classical. Informed by non-western cultures and eclectic spiritualism, he embraces liminal psychology and dream work; a musical practice which absorbs particular features of South Indian classical and Balinese Gamelan; and a rather panpsychist, organismic existential orientation.

Recent Press:
”A realized musical dream” - MusicWorks (CA)
"Matt Choboter takes us to places no one has been before.” - Nettavisen (NO)
“Ephemeral and beautifully fragile” - Passive Aggressive (DK)
“Expands and blows the mind” - London Jazz News (UK)...

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