Cross Modulations Series: Chad M. Clark | Tim Daisy Duo and Snek Trio

Tim Daisy is an American drummer and composer working in the fields of improvised and composed music. Tim moved to Chicago in 1997 and since that time has performed, recorded, and toured with many national and international improvised musicians and ensembles.

In 2011 he received the New Music America Composers Assistance Award and in 2011, 2012 and 2017 the ASCAP Plus Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He has recorded over one hundred and thirty albums as a sideman or leader for labels including Relay, (which he owns and operates), Not Two, Clean Feed, Astral Spirits, Aerophonic, Audiographic, Sonorus, Trost, Utech, New World, and Okka Disk.

Chad Clark is an American composer, guitarist, improvisor, and sound artist living in Evanston, Illinois. He is also the founder of the legendary field recording collective Chicago Phonography, a loose collective of artists interested in promoting creative activity in listening by producing and broadcasting unprocessed field recordings as an ensemble in a

context of live improvisation. Motivated by the maxim “nature performs and we provide the secretarial services” (R. Murray Schafer The Tuning of the World).

Snek Trio is a Chicago based psychedelic free-jazz party band featuring Reid Karris, Janna Lee, and Erik Sowa