Cross Modulations Series: Acevedo/Rempis/Hunsinger/Damon and Osnat Netzer/Ben Zucker

Hunsinger/Rempis/Acevedo/Damon

Robbie Lynn is a boundary breaking media artist and virtuosic instrumentalist. Her finely tuned chamber music esthetic has been polished by decades of extraordinary performance with the world’s top orchestras and it is fully expressed in her beautifully strange and uniquely engaging intermedia events. She has become a true ambassador for the oboe, forging distinctive paths in free jazz, rock, bluegrass, shehnai and contemporary classical music as well as in her cutting edge multimedia performance and installation.

Saxophonist, improviser, and composer Dave Rempis has been an integral part of the thriving Chicago jazz and improvised music scene since 1997.  With a background in ethnomusicology and African studies at Northwestern University, including a year spent at the University of Ghana, Rempis burst onto the creative music scene at the age of 22 when he was asked to join the now-legendary Chicago jazz outfit The Vandermark Five. This opportunity catapulted him to notoriety as he began to tour regularly throughout the US and Europe, an active schedule that he still maintains to the present day.  At the same time, Rempis began to develop the many Chicago-based groups for which he’s currently known, including The Rempis Percussion Quartet, The Engines, Ballister, Kuzu, Rempis/Abrams/Ra + Baker, and longstanding duos with drummers Frank Rosaly and Tim Daisy.  Other collaborations have included work with Paul Lytton, Fred Anderson, Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, Tomeka Reid, Steve Swell, Elisabeth Harnik, John Tchicai, Roscoe Mitchell, Nate Wooley, jaimie branch, Jeff Parker, Paal Nilssen-Love, Nels Cline, Marshall Allen, and Joe McPhee.  Rempis has recorded for a long list of labels including Okkadisk, 482 Music, Delmark, Atavistic, Clean Feed, Not Two, Dropa Disc, Bocian, Driff, and Multi-Kulti. In 2013, he started his own record label, Aerophonic Records, to document this ongoing work.  Rempis has been named regularly since 2006 in the annual Downbeat Critics’s Poll as a “rising star” on both alto and baritone saxophone, a category that he won in 2017.  He’s received funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jazz Road Touring sponsored by the Doris Duke and Andrew Mellon Foundations, the City of Chicago Individual Artist Program, and was the recipient of a Ragdale Fellowship from the Herb Alpert Foundation in 2017.

Ausberto Acevedo is a bassist, composer, improviser, and teacher performing regularly both live and in the studio. Ausberto has performed or recorded with a variety of musicians including, Gino Robair, Kyle Bruckmann, Jason Stein, Guillermo Gregorio, Keefe Jackson, Jason Adasiewicz, Frank Gratkowski, Sebastian Strinning, Jaimie Branch, Dan Bitney, Jim Baker, and Tim Daisy. Ausberto is a founding member of Resonance Arts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting unconventional performance in unlikely spaces throughout the greater Chicago area.

TYLER DAMON (b. 1987, Cincinnati, Ohio) is a drummer, improviser and educator. He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to solo work, Tyler’s contemporary outfits include a longtime duo with saxophonist Dave Rempis, as well as a quartet alongside Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz and Joshua Abrams. He is found frequently in duet with tenor saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher, expanded in trio with bassist Andrew Scott Young. Where Were We, a triad completed by Erez Dessel on keys and Beth McDonald on tuba and electronics, was formed in 2023. Tyler is also often seen and heard accompanying guitarist Eli Winter in the company of Sam Wagster on pedal steel.

Osnat Netzer/Ben Zucker