microplastique at State Street Pub (Indianapolis, IN - 7/14/24)

Ben Zucker - pocket trumpet, toy piano, accordion, percussion
Molly Jones - soprano saxophone, toy piano, accordion, percussion
Josh Harlow - toy piano, melodica, percussion
Adam Shead - percussion, accordion, toy wind instruments, sound effects, compositions
microplastique draws inspiration from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Don Cherry, Kurt Weill, and Misha Mengelberg - performing energetic, playful, and eccentric compositions that are as silly in their aesthetic as they are serious in their execution.
Adam Shead is a Chicago based percussionist and composer who can be heard performing regularly throughout the United States and Europe at venues such as Constellation, City of Asylum, Trinosophes, De Ruimte, PACA, and Zaal 100. Shead has performed with the likes of Marilyn Crispell, Roscoe Mitchell, Jason Stein, Damon Smith, John Dikeman, Angel Bat Dawid, Mary Oliver, and Ben Zucker; amongst others. Adam has released music with Amalgam, Ears & Eyes Records, Scripts Records, Balance Point Acoustics, Shifting Paradigm Records, and Impermanent Records. Since 2022 Shead has been a permanent member of NYC no-wave tinged band Cellular Chaos. Shead is the founder of the Adiaphora Orchestra, Adam Shead Quintet, microplastique, and Irritable Mystic Records