Sensory Overload is a one-night showcase where percussion’s future takes center stage. Grammy-nominated innovator Kassa Overall, audiovisual architect Brett Bolton, and New Orleans-rooted trailblazer Brian Richburg Jr. each bend rhythm, electronics, and gesture into living compositions—collisions of jazz, hip-hop, electronica and generative visuals where every strike reshapes the soundworld in real time. This edition debuts groundbreaking new products for the EVANS Hybrid Sensory Percussion system, pushing creative boundaries and fueling artistry. Part performance lab, part jazz club, part dance floor, Sensory Overload is virtuosity, spontaneity, and technology in equal measure.
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Kassa Overall
Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated jazz artist, drummer, emcee, singer and producer. He seamlessly blends jazz, hip-hop and avant-garde experimentation into a sound uniquely his own. His music is both innovative and accessible, pushing the boundaries of genre while remaining deeply engaging. Overall has released six critically acclaimed mixtapes and albums, including I Think I’m Good and Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz. His latest project, ANIMALS, explores the complexities of his identity as an artist and a Black man in America, featuring collaborations with an eclectic mix of musicians, from Danny Brown and Lil B to Nick Hakim and Vijay Iyer. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Overall has been a driving force in the jazz world for over two decades. In 2020, he was called “one of modern jazz music’s most audacious futurists” by Pitchfork. He has toured and recorded with renowned artists like Geri Allen, Jon Batiste, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Gary Bartz, and his production work can be heard on albums by Theo Croker, Arto Lindsay and Danny Brown. A Seattle native, Kassa Overall attended Washington MS and Garfield HS. A child drum prodigy, he taught himself to make beats on an MPC and an ASR 10 he acquired at a Seattle Police Department auction.
Brett Bolton
Brett Bolton is an audiovisual artist from Las Vegas who creates tightly connected musical and visual systems and then controls them live with drums and a touchpad. Every drum hit, synth line, and ambient swell is tied directly to a visual element, allowing each AV song to be as dynamic, improvised, and imperfect as the human that drives it. Given the real-time generative nature of the AV systems he builds, every performance is a completely unique collaboration between computer and human that exists only in that moment and can never be perfectly replicated. When he’s not building personal work, Brett designs visuals and real-time systems for touring pop artists, XR stages, and cutting-edge venues.
Brian Richburg Jr.
Brian Richburg Jr. is a prodigious drummer who started honing his craft at the age of 5, inspired by his father, the legendary musician and pastor Brian Richburg Sr. from New Orleans. Brian's drumming seamlessly fuses blues and gospel from church with African and Caribbean-inspired rhythms of the New Orleans street bands. His talent has earned him several accolades, including the prestigious ASCAP Louis Prima Award and scholarships to both Berklee College of Music's undergraduate and Master's programs. He has toured with jazz legends such as Nicholas Payton, Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr., Ellis Marsalis, and many others. In addition, Brian has founded his own project entitled 'New Legaxy', collaborating consistently with 5 different musicians from across the U.S. Brian is also a regular fixture at New York City's Nublu Club, embarks on tours across the globe, and returns to his beloved New Orleans to perform.
This is a standing room only performance. If you require accessibility accommodations, please email boxoffice@nationalsawdust.org.