HALO DEFECT
dave rempis - saxophone
nate mcbride - e bass
michael zerang - drums
MICHAEL ZERANG BERLIN MEETING
johannes bauer - trombone
rudi mahall - bass clarinet
uli gumpert - piano
clayton thomas - contrabass
michael zerang - drums
THE FRICTION BROTHERS
michael colligan - dry ice w/ multiple implements
fred lonberg-holm - cello w/ multiple implements
michael zerang - percussion w/ multiple implements
SURVIVAL UNIT III
joe mcphee - reeds, brass
fred lonberg-holm - cello
michael zerang - drums
OVER LAND AND SEA (OLAS)
raymond boni - e guitar
bastion boni - contrabass
lionel gaston - reeds
hamid drake - drums, percussion
michael zerang - drums, percussion
PETER BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET
peter brotzmann - reeds
joe mcphee - reeds, brass
kent kessler - contrabass
fred lonberg-holm - cello
ken vandermark - reeds
mats gustafsson - reeds
johanes bauer - trombone
jeb bishop - trombone
per ake homlander - tuba, trombone
paal neilson-love - drums
michael zerang - drums
DRMWPN
jim dorling
dan mohr
majabeen
steve krakow
adam vida
liz payne
josh abrams
michael zerang
jim becker
various guests
DUO 1
dave rempis - reeds
michael zerang - percussion
DUO 2
christine sehnaoui - alto sax
michael zerang - percussion
DUO 3
hamid drake - percussion
michael zerang - percussion
DUO 4
jim baker - piano, electronics
michael zerang - percussion
DUO 5
edoardo marraffa - reeds
michael zerang - drums
DUO 6
hanna gjermondrod - voice, electronics
michael zerang - percussion
TRIO 1
edward wilkerson jr. - reeds
tatsu aoki - contrabass
michael zerang - percussion
TRIO 2
edoardo marraffa - reeds
alberto braida - piano
michael zerang - drums
TRIO 3
mikolaj trzaska - reeds
clementine gasser - cello
michael zerang
QUARTET 1
peter brotzmann - reeds
joe mcphee - reeds, brass
kent kessler - contrabass
michael zerang - drums
QUARTET 2
dave rempis - reeds
jeb bishop - trombone
kent kessler - contrabass
michael zerang - drums
QUARTET 3
edoardo marraffa - reeds
thomas lehn - electronics
ingebrigt haaker-flaten - contrabass
michael zerang - percussion
QUARTET 4
hal rammel - invented instruments
lou mallozzi - turntables, electronics
fred lonberg-holm - cello
michael zerang - percussion
Influences
Nothing escapes my steely gaze...
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Sounds Like
These are some bands that I've come across and filmed over the last few months that float my boat! I may not sound like any of them, BUT I AM TRYING!!!
Michael Zerang was born in Chicago, Illinois and is a first generation American of Assyrian decent. He has been a musician, composer, and producer since 1976, focusing extensively on improvised music, free jazz, contemporary composition, puppet theater, experimental theater, and international musical forms. He has collaborated extensively with contemporary theater, dance, and other multidisciplinary forms and has received three Joseph Jefferson Awards for Original Music Composition in Theater, in 1996, 1998, and 2000. He has over sixty titles in his discography and has toured nationally and internationally since 1981 with and ever-widening pool of collaborators. He was the artistic director of the Link's Hall Performance Series from 1985-1989 where he produced over 300 concerts of jazz, traditional ethnic folk music, electronic music, and other forms of forward thinking music. He continued to produce concerts at Cafe Urbus Orbis from 1994-1996, and at his own space, The Candlestick Maker in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood, from 2001 - 2005. He has taught as a guest artist at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in performance technique, sound design, and sound/music as it relates to puppetry; rhythmic analysis for dancers at The Dance Center of Columbia College, Northwestern University, and MoMing Dance and Arts Center; courses in Composer - Choreographer Collaborations at Northwestern University; music to children at The Jane Adams Hull House. He has held workshops in improvisational music and percussion technique and teaches private lessons in rhythmic analysis, music composition, and percussion technique.
"five years and counting" - schraum label festival !
On
september 11th and 12th Berlin based label schraum will celebrate its
fifth birthday at Weisepuff - a new venue in Berlin-Neukölln. We invite
you to listen to some of the great acts who released music on our small
label during the last years...
*********** fr sept 11th
UTE VÖLKER SOLO accordeon solo
AXEL HALLER SOLO electric bass & objets trouvés
Torsten Papenheim's TRU CARGO SERVICE Christian Biegai - altosax Matthias Müller - trombone Dave Bennett - guitar, clarinet Torsten Papenheim - guitar, banjo Berit Jung - double bass Christian Marien - drums
*********** sa sept 12th
HUGHES / SCHERZBERG / WIESE John Hughes - double bass Lars Scherzberg - alto- and sopraninosax Nicolas Wiese - electronics
HOTELGÄSTE Michael Thieke - clarinet, altosax, zither Dave Bennett - guitar, radio Derek Shirley - double bass
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