Ben Zucker presents: ( )hole complex

Join us for an immersive experience at the edge of concert, installation, and meditation, with duo Garden Unit (Julia Ansolabahere, clarinet; Cameron Roberts, saxophone) and new electronic interventions performed live by the composer.

This performance celebrates the release of ( )hole complex (per​/​formance​/​eration), now out on Sawyer Editions. The eponymous composition by Ben Zucker is a foray into unpredictable collages of notation and instruction—a study in the decoherence of musical identity over extended periods of time, where no performance is ever the same twice. The piece was commissioned by boundary-pushing chamber duo Garden Unit (Julia Ansolabahere, clarinet; Cameron Roberts, saxophone), who will use the full space of the Museum’s second floor to create an immersive experience at the edge of concert, installation, and meditation, with new electronic interventions performed live by the composer.

Listen to the album here: https://sawyereditions.bandcamp.com/album/ben-zucker-hole-complex-per-formance-eration

Ben Zucker 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. Following studies on both coasts and the UK, they currently live in Chicago, engaged in ongoing freelance performing and composing, teaching, and serving as the President of New Music Chicago and curator for Elastic Arts’ Improvised Music Series.

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