drums and percussion

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Tim Daisy is a Chicago based percussionist, composer and educator working in the fields of improvised and composed music. Active since 1997, Tim has performed, recorded, and toured with many acclaimed musicians and ensembles from both the United States and Europe and has toured extensively throughout North America , Europe, and Mexico. Working in a number of different environments, he has composed for solo percussion, chamber groups, jazz ensembles, dance, theater, and film.

Tim had had the fortunate experience to work with many of the most cutting edge musicians currently working in the filed of improvised music including: Ken Vandermark, Joe McPhee, John Tchicai, Fred Lonberg-Holm, James Falzone, Dave Rempis, Steve Swell, Jeb Bishop, and Fred Anderson.

He has performed drums as well as showcased his original compositions at many festivals throughout North America and Europe including: The Newport Jazz Fetival, The Umbrella Music Festival in Chicgo, The Wels Music Unlimited Festival in Wels Austria, The North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands and the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival in Montreal.

Along with his busy performance and composing schedule, Tim finds the time to teach private drum instruction both at his studio in Chicago as well as throughout the Chicago metro area.

In 2011 Tim received both the New Music America “Composers Assistance Award” as well as the American Society of Composers Authors, and Publishers “ASCAP Plus Award” recognizing his original contributions to American music.

guitar and electronics

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Matthew Dotson is a Chicago-based composer/performer of electronic and acoustic concert music as well as music for dance, video, and multimedia/installation. His inspiration comes, in a large degree, from world, folk, and experimental music in addition to modern concert music. Technology is also a major focus of his work, both in creative application and societal implication. Recently he was an artist-in-residence at I-Park in East Haddam Connecticut where he finished a work for saxophone quartet. Instrumentalists and ensembles he has worked with include pianist Mabel Kwan, the University of Iowa Center for New Music, percussionist Greg Beyer, flutist Erin Lesser, and bassoonist Stephanie Willow-Patterson. He has had over 60 performances across the United States, Europe, and South America.

piano, voice, and electronics

cello

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William Jason Raynovich is co-founder, Artistic Director, and cellist of the MAVerick Ensemble. Involved in the performance of contemporary music for fifteen years, he has premiered over fifty works. Specializing in experimental contemporary music, he presents lectures on the performance practice of the composers of the New York School, John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff, focusing on the relationship between composition, aleatory, and improvisation.

As a composer, Mr. Raynovich has been performed throughout the United States and Europe. He has written works for electronics, solo works, chamber, orchestral, and vocal, focusing on setting the poetry of E. E. Cummings to music throughout his compositional career.

bass

Composer and bassoonist Katherine Young creates acoustic and electro-acoustic music that uses curious timbres, expressive noises, and kinetic structures to explore the dramatic materiality of sound, constantly shifting ensemble energies, and the tension between the familiar and the strange. Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times described Katherine’s Inside UFO 53-32, as performed by the Flux Quartet, as a “raw, wailing, coloristic piece” with an “organic sweep.”
Recent projects include a new string quartet based on the opening scene from Once Upon a Time in the West, a piece for TimeTable percussion with Issue Project Room’s Emerging Artists Commission, and a commission for the String Orchestra of Brooklyn. Katherine also collaborated with choreographer Daria Fain and dancer Marya Wethers on TARGET: Furnace for solo dancer and three musicians. The piece had a week-long run at the Chocolate Factory, and The New York Times described the work as “full of absorbing elements: Katherine Young’s live original score …served as a lushly spare aural landscape…marvelously charged….”
Katherine has documented her work on numerous recordings, including a 2009 solo bassoon release, Further Secret Origins on Porter Records, which garnered praise in The Wire(“Bassoon colossus”) and Downbeat (“seriously bold leaps for the bassoon”). Katherine’s solo project employs pedals and amplification, and she leads the quartet Pretty Monsters featuring bassoon, violin, electric guitar, and drums. Pretty Monsters' first record is due out in September on Public Eyesore.

Katherine has toured with Anthony Braxton, and she has recorded with Hans Joachim Irmler from Faust and F.M. Einheit from Einsturzende Neubauten. She is a founding member of the experimental chamber collective Till by Turning, and she performs regularly in the improvising duo Architeuthis Walks on Land, who released Natura Naturans on Carrier Records in 2010. Katherine also plays with the chamber-pop quartet the Fancy.

Other projects past and present include: British rockers the Nightingales; Jason Ajemian’s Who Cares How Long You Sink; the trio Civil War; Jacob Wick’s A Mown Lawn; Leah Paul's Bike Lane; Chicago-based pop band Roommate; and collaborations with musicians such as Jim Altieri, Tim Daisy, Peter Evans, Guillermo Gregorio, Mary Halvorson, Andrew Lafkas, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Matt Marble, Jeff Parker, Jessica Pavone, Dan Peck, Mike Pride, Tomeka Reid, Weasel Walter, and Jonathan Zorn.

At Oberlin College and Conservatory, Katherine studied bassoon performance and comparative literature; she completed her masters in composition at Wesleyan University, where she worked with Anthony Braxton, Ron Kuivila, and Alvin Lucier. Katherine is currently a DM candidate in composition at Northwestern University, working with Lee Hyla, Hans Thomalla, and Jay Alan Yim.