Chris Cochrane - Guitar
Jessica Pavone - Viola
Brian Chase - Drums
Brandon Lopez - Bass
Chris Cochrane is a songwriter and guitarist who has been playing in New York since the early1980s . Chris has played with Thurston Moore, Zeena Parkins, John Zorn, Brian Chase, Marc Ribot, Billy Martin, Eszter Balint, Stew, James Chance, Mike Patton, Henry Kaiser, Andrea Centazzo, Annie Gosfield, Tim Hodgkinson, Richard Buckner, Davey Williams, Ladonna Smith and Jim Pugliese and many others. He has composed music for Dennis Cooper, John Jasperse, Neil Greenberg, Nayland Blake, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Jennifer Monson and Circus Amok. He was in the bands No Safety and Curlew, and is currently works in several projects: Alphawhore with Gordon Beeferman and Kevin Shea, Chris Rael's Church of Betty, Lampshade with Viv Corringham and Miguel Frasconi and the Chutney's with Fast Forward and Gelsey Bell.
As both an instrumentalist and composer, Jessica Pavone explores the tactile and sensorial experience of music as a vibration-based medium. Pavone has been a composer in residence at the Ragdale Foundation, the Ucross Foundation, and Soaring Gardens, and has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2021), Queens Council on the Arts (2020), New Music USA (2015), the Tri-Centric Foundation (2015), Experiments in Opera (2013), the Jerome Foundation (2011), and MATA Interval (2007). Her works have premiered in NYC venues including Roulette, the Noguchi Museum, ISSUE Project Room, Abrons Art Center, the Museum of Art and Design, and The Kitchen. Her albums have been produced by Tzadik, Taiga Records, Thirsty Ear, Astral Spirits, and Relative Pitch, including four collaborative duo recordings with guitarist Mary Halvorson. From 2005 to 2012, Pavone toured regularly with Anthony Braxton’s Sextet and 12+1tet, and she appears on his discography from that time.
Brian Chase is the drummer for Grammy-nominated rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and NYC’s experimental music community. In 2018, Chase started the independent record label Chaikin Records which spotlights cutting edge music from the NYC music and arts scene. Chases own releases on the label included duo albums with pianist Anthony Coleman, harpist Zeena Parkins and saxophonist Catherine Sikora; the inaugural release on the label was a music and book set of Chase’s solo project, Drums and Drones, described in The Wire as “luscious laboratory experiments in listening to stretched skins, wooden vessels and metallic surfaces.” Some of Chase’s essays and writings have appeared in John Zorn’s Arcana series, Modern Drummer magazine, and culture blog Talkhouse.
Brandon Lopez is a Puerto Rican/American musician based in NYC. His work has been praised and “brutal” and “relentless” by the NYTimes and other publications of note. He has been a soloist with the NY philharmonic and has played numerous basements across Europe and North America.