Starting Thursday evening and continuing through Aug. 10, the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs will enjoy a performative interlude consisting of jazz concerts, sound sculpture, and a continuous performance happening during open hours.
The Kazemde George Trio will take the stage at 6 p.m. on Thursday. Mr. George, raised by Caribbean parents in Berkeley, Calif., was exposed as a child to a wide range of musical styles. A jazz saxophonist, he is known for streamlined, emotionally direct melodies. He has performed at Le Poisson Rouge, the Jazz Gallery, Irving Plaza, the Panama Jazz Festival, and many others.
He will be joined by Tyrone Allen II on bass and Kayvon Gordon on drums. The concert will move inside in the event of rain.
Originally scheduled for July 3 but postponed due to inclement weather, the Inés Velasco Large Ensemble will return to Duck Creek on Saturday at 6 p.m. Ms. Velasco is a composer, arranger, and drummer born in Mexico and based in Brooklyn. Her recent work includes compositions for the National Jazz Orchestra of Mexico and string arrangements for the New York Philharmonic’s Bandwagon series with the vocalist Juana Luna.
She will bring a 17-piece band to Springs, consisting of a rhythm section, bass, drums, keyboard, guitar, and four trumpets, four trombones, and five saxophones.
“East End Sound Map,” a four-day immersive installation by Cal Fish and Becca Rodriguez, a pair of multidisciplinary artists based in Brooklyn, will explore the sonic, ecological, and narrative layers of the East End landscape through sound sculpture, handmade media, community mapping, and collective memory.
Using materials and recordings from sites across East Hampton Town, including Louse Point, the Walking Dunes, and Sunset Road (formerly Squaw Road), the artists will create an environment that treats the land as a living archive. The installation includes sound sculpture, pigment-based works on paper, soft sculpture, and more.
The piece emerged from the artists’ archival research with One Landscape, a collective of artists and landscape professionals working across the East End, and their 2024 residency at the Watermill Center.
In the John Little Barn from next Thursday through Aug. 10, on the evening of Aug. 9 Mr. Fish, Ms. Rodriguez, and guests will perform experimental interpretations of the music of Stephen Dickman (1939-2025), a composer and longtime resident of Sunset Road. The event will also include original recordings, and readings by Dickman’s daughter Nyssa Eva Dickman Frank.
Also running from next Thursday through Aug. 10, Alix Pearlstein, an interdisciplinary artist, will direct a group of actors in “Honey (Inventory-2),” a continuous live performance happening in and around the barn from 2 to 6 p.m. each day.
An open rehearsal will take place next Thursday, and the performance from Friday, Aug. 8, through Aug. 10. A list of objects, poses, gestures, actions, and characters from Ms. Pearlstein’s previous works will form the script, which will evolve over the four-day duration. A wide range of performance activity and approaches will be evident, as passages of narrative and psychological drama occur simultaneously with task-based actions, choreographed movement, and play.
Ms. Pearlstein’s practice spans performance, video, installation, sculpture, and collage. She examines human subjectivity through relationships, behavior, character, power dynamics, and social constructs, to highlight moments where the psychological and spatial overlap.
All programs are free.
