LO-FI OYSTER CO. & Optical Sound Experience present: Alden Hellmuth and Jesse Perlstein

Alden Hellmuth is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser currently based in New York City. Recipient of the German Jazz Prize “Debut Album of the Year International” Award and a 2025 graduate of the Herbie Hancock Institute at UCLA, she has performed and toured internationally with artists including Herbie Hancock and Dianne Reeves. In 2024 Alden released her debut album, Good Intentions, with Fresh Sound Records (ES), and in 2026 her second album, Tether, with Leiter Verlag (DE). 

Alden has been recognized with numerous honors, including ASCAP’s Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award (2024), Chamber Music America’s Performance Plus Grant (2025), and the Focusyear Fellowship (2021-22). She has appeared on major stages including the North Sea Jazz Festival, NYC Winter Jazz Festival, the Hollywood Bowl/Blue Note Jazz Festival, International Jazz Day in Morocco and Abu Dhabi, The Jazz Gallery, and Blue Note NYC. As a composer and performer, Alden strives for expression through freedom, intuition, and a deep commitment to her craft.

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Jesse Perlstein is a LA-based experimental artist, collector of moments, and etcher of the shadows left as they pass. Through the practice of field recording he captures and repurposes temporal ambience for compositions that include vocal accompaniment and sonic manipulation, creating surreal auditory soundscapes and compositions. Aside from his solo work he has many ongoing collaborations, namely neo-classical trio Sontag Shogun, industrial techno outfit AxOxH & the post-ambient duo Trellis.  

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