Already during work on Ilinx (composition and research), a work that incorporates movement of performing musicians as integral part of the composition, I was curious to see how similar attitudes would work in a jazz trio setting. The new trio, featuring bassist Hugo Reydet and drummer Tom Dayan, is making its, literally, first steps in […]

Ilinx (2014) is a sixty minute composition in six episodes written for percussionist Aiden McKee and a fifteen member ensemble. The work exploits and celebrates the gestures that musicians make, taking movement as a central element of the composition. Yet it is not a dance or theater, but an exaggeration of the functional movements that […]