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Erin Rogers is a saxophonist and composer whose work has been described as “whimsical, theatrical” (Brooklyn Vegan), “so complex, it’s primitive.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and “incredible technique with an expressive attitude” (Vital Weekly). Forging an alternate voice for the saxophone, Rogers moves freely between acoustic and electronic worlds, blending tone with mechanism and melody with vocalization, gutturals and breath. Rogers’ works have been featured at Lincoln Center, Prototype Festival, Library of Congress, Carnegie Hall, MATA Festival, French Quarter Festival, Ecstatic Festival, Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), International Festival of New Music “Manuel Enríquez” (Mexico), NyMusikk Bergen, Edmonton Fringe Festival, and Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg). Rogers is co-artistic director of NY-based ensembles thingNY, Hypercube, New Thread Quartet, and Popebama. She has received commissions and honors from The Barlow Endowment, Library of Congress, Copland House, and the Jerome Foundation. Her music has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, musicworks magazine, and The Wire.

Violinist/improviser Erica Dicker serves as concertmaster of Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Foundation Orchestra. She is a founding member of the contemporary chamber music collective Till By Turning, and the New York-based horn trio, Kylwyria. She has premiered works by many composers including solo works written for her by Olivia Block, Turkar Gasimzada, Ryan Ingebritsen and Katherine Young. Erica writes and performs her own music, exploring the idiomatic modalities and textures of her instrument. Taking Auspices, her debut solo album, is released by Tubapede Records as a digital download and limited edition vinyl LP.

Dennis Sullivan is a percussionist, composer, and improviser based in New York City. Dennis explores cross-genre coalescence between acoustic, electronic, and timbral-based noise music. As a percussionist focusing on new and contemporary music, Dennis is a founding member of the performance duo, Radical 2 with percussionist/electronics engineer, Levy Lorenzo, and Popebama, a high octane experimental percussion/saxophone duo with composer/saxophonist Erin Rogers. His work has been featured at the SPLICE Festival, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Omaha Under the Radar festival, Times Two, VU Symposium, Cincinnati Conservatory, Acadia University, and the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg).

Alec Goldfarb is a Brooklyn based guitarist, composer, and Hindustani classical musician. Active in the NYC Jazz and New Music communities, Alec runs the chamber ensemble “Laughing Coffin” and served as Jonah Bokaer Choreography’s inaugural Composer in Residence for 2018. An exponent of the Maihar Gharana, Alec performs Hindustani classical music across the globe on the guitar using a novel synthesis of sarod and sitar technique. In Spring 2020 he co-founded the Open Improvisations: Online Edition weekly series with Marina Kifferstein and Carrie Frey. He holds a masters degree from CUNY Brooklyn College and B.A.’s from the University of Illinois in Music Composition/Theory and Philosophy and is currently on faculty at NYC Guitar School.

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Microscope’s Event Series 2021 is sponsored by Re:Voir, a home video label for classic and contemporary experimental film in Paris, France.