(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Tough Day Tubing, a collaboration among avant-garde music legends Al Margolis (if, Bwana), Crank Sturgeon, Walter Wright, and Steve Norton, will perform an evening of improvised music at the Spotty Dog on Friday, April 11, 2014, at 8pm.

Since the 1980s, Al Margolis has earned himself an international reputation as an impresario and composer of experimental music. Running the influential indie cassette label Sound of Pig, Margolis recorded his own work under the nom de bande, if, Bwana, wherein he explored a plethora of sonic experiments, transforming conventional sounds into uncanny otherness, and even finding ways to distort unconventional distortions. His music succeeded in fusing ambience with industrial and musique concrete, producing strange soundscapes that are both soothing and unnerving, often at the same time.

Puckish experimentalist Crank Sturgeon delights audiences with his anarchic performances, featuring homemade electronics, bizarre costumes, and absurdist antics.

Boston-based saxophonist Steve Norton has been performing and recording for over 30 years, with a bunch of folks to whom he is deeply and forever in debt. His recent work has taken a turn toward more sound-based concerns and investigations into performance gestalt. His focus is on improvisation, which is filtered through a strongly compositional sensibility. Current projects include Duck That, Grizzler, Symptomatic, Kilter, Metal & Glass Ensemble, Spam, solo performance and duos with Vic Rawlings, Curt Newton, Matt Samolis, Noell Dorsey, Marc Bisson and Katt Hernandez.