Osnat Netzer/Ben Zucker
A new duo exploring intricate, subtle sounds drawing upon shared experience in avant-garde composition and performance.
Ben Zucker
Ben Zucker (vibraphone, cornet) engages in acts of creative juxtaposition and speculation as a composer, audiovisual artist, and multi-instrumentalist. Acclaimed as a “master of improvisation” (IMPOSE Magazine), and “more than a little bit remarkable” (Free Jazz Blog), they have contributed to experimental music scenes across North America and the UK with “stirring compositions…built on a lifetime of musical curiosity” (Chicago Reader), as well as albums, multimedia situations, and frequent performances on vibraphone, brass, voice, and electronics.
Osnat Netzer
Osnat Netzer (piano) is a composer, performer and educator. Osnat creates her compositions collaboratively, tailoring her work to the performer’s sensibilities, physicality and improvisational inclinations. She takes inspiration from cognitive linguistics, and in dialogue with the embodied experience of physical forces, such as potential and kinetic energy, resulting in compositions that are rich in musical languages and connected to the fulsome pursuit for tension and relaxation. As a pianist and performer, she regularly plays and conducts new music by fellow composers, as well as her own songs and compositions.
Dave Rempis/Robbie Lynn Hunsinger/Ausberto Acevedo/Tyler Damon
A new quartet that is sure to be unusual in exploration of extremes in both subtlety and the outrageous. This quartet will fuse mutual influences in improvisation and the avant-garde to create soundscapes that are dynamic and unexpected.
Saxophonist, improviser, and composer Dave Rempis has been an integral part of the thriving Chicago jazz and improvised music scene since 1997. With a background in ethnomusicology and African studies at Northwestern University, including a year spent at the University of Ghana, Rempis burst onto the creative music scene at the age of 22 when he was asked to join the now-legendary Chicago jazz outfit The Vandermark Five.
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger
Robbie Lynn is a boundary breaking media artist and virtuosic instrumentalist. Her finely tuned chamber music esthetic has been polished by decades of extraordinary performance with the world’s top orchestras and it is fully expressed in her beautifully strange and uniquely engaging intermedia events.
Ausberto Acevedo
Ausberto Acevedo is a bassist, composer, improviser, and teacher performing regularly both live and in the studio. Ausberto has performed or recorded with a variety of musicians including, Gino Robair, Kyle Bruckmann, Jason Stein, Guillermo Gregorio, Keefe Jackson, Jason Adasiewicz, Frank Gratkowski, Sebastian Strinning, Jaimie Branch, Dan Bitney, Jim Baker, and Tim Daisy.
Tyler Damon
Tyler Damon (b. 1987, Cincinnati, Ohio) is a drummer, improviser and educator. He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.
