Michael Zerang, Azel Dörner, Fred Lonberg-Holm |
Axel Dörner / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Michael Zerang |
| (1998-present) |
Improvised trios for trumpet, cello and percussion.
Fred Lonberg-Holm
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Jim Baker, Michael Zerang |
Jim Baker / Michael Zerang Duo |
| (1995-present) |
| Improvised duets for piano and electronics, drums and percussion.
Jim Baker |
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Mats Gustafsson, Jaap Blonk, Michael Zerang |
Jaap Blonk / Mats Gustafsson / Michael Zerang Trio |
| (1996-present) |
Free improvisations and structured improvisations for voice, reeds
and percussion. Tours of Europe and United States. Jaap Blonk Mats Gustafsson
[review]
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Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang |
Music for Mesopotamian Frame Drums and Other Percussion |
| (1989-present) |
Duet that emphasizes the music of hand drums from the Middle
East, North Africa, and East India featuring percussionists Hamid Drake
and Michael Zerang. Tours of USA and Europe.
[review]
Winter Solstice [review]
Summer Solstice [review] |
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| John Butcher / Fred Lonberg-Holm /
Michael Zerang |
| (2002-present) |
John Butcher - reeds; Fred Lonberg-Holm
- cello & Michael Zerang - percussion.
[review] |
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| Tony Bevan / Jeb Bishop / John Edwards / Michael Zerang |
| (2002-present) |
Tony Bevan; Jeb Bishop; John Edwards &
Michael Zerang - percussion.
[review] |
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| Vega |
| (2002-present) |
Jeff Parker - guitar; Bernard Santacruz
- Contrabass & Michael Zerang - percussion.
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| Jumper Cables |
| (1998-present) |
Compositions and structured improvisation for quartet by Michael
Zerang featuring Jim Baker
-ARP 2600, Kevin Drumm
- guitar, Don Meckley - shortwave radio, Michael Zerang - percussion.
[review] |
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Jeb Bishop, Michael Zerng, Fred Lonberg-Holm |
| In Zenith |
| (1997-present) |
| Power trio featuring the music of cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm
with bassist / trombonist Jeb Bishop
and Zerang on drums. |
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Vandermark, Kessler, Gustafsson, McPhee, Zerang, Lonberg-Holm, Bishop,
Drake, Williams, Brötzmann |
| Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet |
| (1997-present) |
Large ensemble directed by German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann,
featuring Mats Gustafsson,
Joe McPhee, Jeb Bishop,
Mars Williams, Hamid Drake, Kent Kessler,
Ken Vandermark,
Fred Lonberg-Holm and Michael
Zerang. Tours of USA, Canada and Europe.
[review] |
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| Jaap Blonk / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Michael Zerang
Trio |
| (1997-present) |
Improvised musicial trio featuring Dutch vocalist and sound poet
Jaap Blonk, Chicago based cellist
Fred Lonberg-Holm and percussionist
Michael Zerang. Debut CD "First Meeting" released on Buzz Records
(76002) 1999. Tours of Europe and U.S.
[review]
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| Terminal 4 |
| (1998-present) |
| Quintet playing compositions by cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm
with guitarist Ben Vida, bassist Josh Abrams, trombonist Jeb Bishop
and Zerang on drums. |
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Michael Zerang, Mats Gustafsson |
Mats Gustafsson / Michael Zerang Duo |
| (1994-present) |
| Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson
and American percussionist Michael Zerang have performed and recorded
improvised duets in Sweden and the United States. Their music has
been documented on Parrot Fish Eye, a 1995 release on the Okka Disc
label. |
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Michael Zerang, Mats Gustafsson, Sten Sandell |
| Mats Gustafsson / Sten Sandell / Michael Zerang Trio |
| (1996-present) |
| Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson
and pianist Sten Sandell along
with American percussionist Zerang have performed improvised music
and recorded in Sweden and the U.S. |
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| Neutrino Trio |
| (1995-1996) |
| Experimental music trio that performs the long-form composition
of Michael Zerang. Featuring Daniel Scanlan
- violin; Kent Kessler
- contrabass; Michael Zerang - percussion. |
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Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm |
Lonberg-Holm / Zerang Duo |
| (1996-present) |
Compositions, improvisations and explorations for cello and percussion.
Tours of USA and Europe. Fred Longberg-Holm
[review] |
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Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sten Sandell |
| Fred Lonberg-Holm / Sten Sandell / Michael Zerang Trio |
| (1997-present) |
Improvised trio musical featuring American cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm
Swedish pianist Sten Sandell
and American percussionist Zerang have toured and recorded in the
U.S.
[review] |
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| Sputter Ensemble |
| (1996-1997) |
| Sextet featuring Robbie Hunsinger (oboe), Jeb Bishop
(trombone), Jeremy Ruthrauff (reeds), Jim Baker
(electronics) Fred Lonberg-Holm
(cello), Michael Zerang (percussion). Performing original compositions
by Michael Zerang |
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Michael Zerang, Raymond Strid |
| Raymond Strid / Michael Zerang Percussion Duo |
| (1996-present) |
| Master Swedish percussionist Raymond Strid and American percussionist
Michael Zerang perform free and structured improvisation. They have
performed in the U.S. and Sweden. |
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| Quirt Quintet |
| (1995-1997) |
| Collective ensemble emphasizing long-form structured improvisations
for strings and percussion. Featuring Daniel Scanlan
- violin; Fred Lonberg-Holm
- cello; Kent Kessler
- contrabass; Steve Hunt - percussion; Michael Zerang - percussion. |
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Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang |
Winter Solstice Percussion Concerts |
| (1990-present) |
Annual event celebrating the winter solstice at Link's Hall in Chicago.
Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang
hold four ritual performaces of percussion music at sunrises and sunsets
during the course of the solstice weekend.
[review] |
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Michael Zerang, Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler,
Daniel Scanlan |
The Vandermark Quartet |
| (1991-1995) |
New Jazz ensemble employing a range of styles from free improvisation
to composition by its members Ken Vandermark
- reeds; Daniel Scanlan
- violin / guitar / cornet; Kent Kessler
- bass; Michael Zerang - percussion.
[review] |
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| Trio Troppo |
| (1995-present) |
| Experimental music collective featuring the compositions of its
members Fred Lonberg-Holm -
Cello; Gene Coleman
- Bass Clarinet; Michael; Zerang - percussion. |
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Don Meckley, Michael Zerang, Daniel Scanlan |
Liof Munimula |
| (1982-Present) |
Improvisational music trio featuring Daniel Scanlan,
Don Meckley and Michael Zerang that deals with the mixture of electronic
and acoustic elements with an emphasis on shifting polyrhythmic interplay.
The trio has toured the United States and Canada and has performed
in art galleries, nightclubs and other alternative spaces. Liof Munimula
[review] |
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L-R: Katherine Hughes, Don Malone, David Noffa,
Kent Kessler, Erik Neumann, Michael Zerang |
Musica Menta |
| (1981-1986) |
| Musica Menta is a workshop situation co-founded and developed by
Michael Zerang. Consisting of six musicians, this group worked on
a range of ideas in music to performance art and explored the different
facets of inter-media collaboration. Musica Menta has performed extensively
in the United States and was the recipient of the Illinois Arts Council
Grant from 1982-1984. Kent Kessler |
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| Project Clamdance |
| (1981-1987) |
| This is an ongoing process that is devised to explore and expand
improvisational music. I bring together approximately 30 musicians
for large ensemble explorations of this form. These players are also
divided up into smaller ensembles and sectionals that deal with the
same principles of improvised music in a more intimate setting. Performances
have been held at A.R.C Gallery, MoMing Dance and Art center and Link's
Hall Studio. |
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Michael Zerang & Erik Neumann |
Sam Pappas New Instrument Ensemble (Tumbling Strains) |
| (1981-1987) |
| I have studied and performed on the new musical instruments of Chicago
sculptor Sam Pappas. Performances have been held at Young / Hoffman
Gallery, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Randolph Street
Gallery and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. |
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| The Neutrino Orchestra |
| (1977-1979) |
| This experimental music ensemble emphasized and explored acoustic
textural phenomena. With Daniel Scanlan,
Kent Kessler,
Robert Bilmeyer, Norbert Funk. Performances in Chicago and USA. |
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