Visit http://bhobrainey.com for official releases and events.

Mutable Music, the label of new music baritone Thomas Buckner, founder of the legendary 1750 Arch Records, releases recordings that promote creative contemporary music, with the hope and desire to expand its audience and repertoire. A major focus of the label are recordings that feature contemporary composer/performers, in both composed and improvisational settings.

Après quelques années de cours de jazz hypothétique, option chasse d'eau électrique à pistons, il rejoint quelques groupes improbables de musiques souterraines, nocturnes et noctambules... attiré par tout ce qui brille et fait un son, bizarre de préférence, il joue quand il ne faut pas, ce qu'il ne faut pas, à l'endroit où ce n'est pas prévu... 

Composer- Performer- Research Scientist 
Visiting Researcher CNMAT UC Berkeley
1st Frank & Marjorie Malina Art/Science Research Fellow
The HUB - 2018 Winner of the ZKM GigaHertz Lifetime Achievement Award
Sound Designer/Composer deadwhitezombies.com - Dallas Observer, Best Theatre Company 2017
Performer/Composer/Designer Talking Trees

I live in Oakland. I mostly play drum machine, but also work with processing/sampling other sounds. Most of this music is based on improvisation. 

Here's where I post unreleased tracks, experiments and ideas in progress. For more official releases, please see: https://mattdavignon.bandcamp.com/

Le GRIM (Groupe de Recherche et d’Improvisation Musicales) mène depuis 30 ans une activité de diffusion, de production, de création et de formation dans le domaine de l’improvisation, des musiques nouvelles et expérimentales. 
Sous la direction artistique du guitariste Jean-Marc Montera, il accueille des musiciens de la scène nationale et internationale pour des concerts et festivals mais aussi des enregistrements, des productions discographiques et des résidences.
 Le GRIM dispose d’un Studio Musique équipé et dédié à la réalisation de l’ensemble de ses activités. La programmation annuelle se compose de 40 à 50 concerts par saison. Le festival Nuit d’hiver en décembre est le point d’orgue de chaque saison, avec les rencontres Sons de Plateaux en avril et les concerts One Shot tout au long de l’année.
 Une à trois créations ont lieu par saison. Elles associent des artistes de renommée internationale et sont soutenues par des partenaires professionnels et institutionnels. Cinq à sept sessions pédagogiques (enfants) ou de formations professionnelles (workshops, masterclasses) dirigées par les artistes de la programmation ont lieu chaque année. 

oboist/electrician
composer/performer
improviser/interpreter

Please check out my website for comprehensive info on collaborations, performances, discography. 
Here's where I experiment with connecting, sharing, posting free tracks and works in progress.

Pleased to make your acquaintance.

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Composer/performer Kyle Bruckmann's work extends from a Western classical foundation into genre-bending gray areas encompassing free jazz, electronic music and post-punk rock. Appearances on more than 50 recordings have led to his recognition as “an excellent composer, striking the right balance between form and freedom” (Signal to Noise), “a modern day renaissance musician" (Dusted) and "a seasoned improviser with impressive extended technique and peculiar artistic flair” (All Music Guide).

He has been active since his teens in the DIY noise rock underground while simultaneously establishing a thorough pedigree as an orchestral oboist. This unusual intersection leads him to creative work driven by an 'ethnomusicological' mindset, focusing on the social aspects of how music and musicians work in the world. His varied projects delve into the cracks between different roles, contexts, and aesthetics, seeking deep structures uniting disparate subcultures, genres, and practices. 

Shortly after moving to the Bay Area in 2003, he became a member of the new music collective sfSound (a winner of the 2008 Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming) and Quinteto Latino (a woodwind quintet specializing in Latin American composers). He has worked with the San Francisco Symphony and most of the area’s regional orchestras, performed contemporary concert music with the Eco Ensemble and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and accompanied 20th century opera productions with Ensemble Parallèle. He has simultaneously become firmly enmeshed in the vibrant local improvised music community; current working groups include Shudder (with Lance Grabmiller and Phillip Greenlief), Addleds (with Tony Dryer, Jacob Felix Heule, and Kanoko Nishi), and Pink Mountain (an avant-rock band with Sam Coomes, Gino Robair, Scott Rosenberg, and John Shiurba).

From 1996 until his westward relocation, he had been a fixture in Chicago's experimental music underground, with frequent collaborators including Jim Baker, Jeb Bishop, Olivia Block, Guillermo Gregorio, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Robbie Hunsinger, Ernst Karel, and Michael Zerang. Long-term projects include the electro-acoustic duo EKG (“a fine example of the kind of genre hybridisation that typifies early 21st century music,” Wire), the Creative Music quintet Wrack (“dazzling proof that intricately arranged, angular modern jazz can be accessible and enjoyable," Wire) and the avant-punk monstrosity Lozenge (“one of the most criminally underrated outfits in alt.rock”, Signal to Noise).


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