The trek launches December 1 at Solar Culture in Tucson, Ariz., and will hit cities across the U.S. and Canada through the end of the month with stops including Eyedrum Gallery in Atlanta (December 5), Rock N’ Roll Hotel in Washington, D.C. (December 8), Club Lambi in Montreal (December 12), Schubas in Chicago (December 15), The Walnut Room in Denver (December 17), and Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco (December 22).

Tickets for a few shows are available at Ticketmaster.com.

RRIICCEE is described as a “spontaneous collective between two musicians (with the potential of additional members),” wherein Gallo and Erlandson will create compositions during live performances.

Although the two musicians won’t be performing pre-written music and won’t limit themselves to a specific genre, Gallo insists RRIICCEE is not improv or a jam band.

“Improvisation is not a good word for what we’re doing,” Gallo said. “It’s more a gesture of composing and performing at the same time, always hoping to avoid musical cliché or jamming.”

Gallo explained he and Erlandson also have no recorded music and no plans to complete a commercial release.

“We’ve chosen not to go into a studio in a traditional way like other bands have done in the past: to make recordings, cut them up, dub on them, fine tune and mix them, and then release them as an album, the later, go on tour, pantomiming those recordings over and over each night as a form of cabaret.

“Instead, for a long time now, we’ve chosen to remain open, to grow and change more naturally, and when we play live, the music is often created during the performance.

“If we choose to record a performance, the recording itself is only evidence of that creative moment. The purpose of recording then, is to listen back for enjoyment.”

Gallo, best known as writer and director of films like “The Brown Bunny” and “Buffalo 66,” has released two solo albums on British imprint Warp Records and also collaborated with late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in the New York no-wave band Gray in the late ’70s.