Installation View, Patrick Dougherty: Pilgrimage (November 15, 2025 - May 17, 2026), Blowing Rock Art & History Museum. Photo: Josh White

About the program:

This program is presented free to the public through the generosity of the Bryant and Nancy Hanley Foundation.

Thomas McLamb is an experimental guitarist with a background in punk, hardcore, noise, and ambient sound design. His approach to music, combining both guitars and synthesizers, is inspired by other experimental guitar players like Derek Bailey, Jim O'Rourke, and Thurston Moore as well as avant-garde composers like Roland Kayn, Morton Subotnick, and Éliane Radigue. 

McLamb will perform two pieces responding to Patrick Daugherty's Pilgrimage. The first piece, 'modes of production,' responds to the collection of work gloves and uses many different sound sources to create a wall of harmonic sound. The second piece, 'canonization', responds to Daugherty's stickwork technique, looping guitars and synthesizers inspired by Daugherty's interwoven stick sculptures.