Resonance Arts presents Syzygia and Dessel+Hatcher

Name: Resonance Arts presents Syzygia and Dessel+Hatcher
Start: 2025-02-18T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Color Club

Schedule

Tue, 18 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Color Club | Lincolnwood, IL

Resonance Arts proudly presents its Cross Modulations new music series! On Tuesday February 18, Resonance Arts presents Dessel+Hatcher (Erez Dessel - keyboard, Gerrit Hatcher - saxophone) and the debut performance of Syzygia, new quartet featuring cellist Jamie Kempkers, multi-instrumentalist Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, Jeff Chan on flute/clarinets and pianist Michael Perkins.
Presented on the third Tuesday of every month at the Color Club, Resonance Arts' Cross Modulations series features new music presented by Chicago and national musicians.
Doors open at 7p, show starts at 8p. $15 admission Full bar!
About the Artists
Erez Dessel and Gerrit Hatcher present a new project rooted in the tradition but looking ahead, never bound by aesthetics and deeply grounded by an improvisatory practice that spans space and time. Their duo music includes free improvisation as well as compositions: original, repertory, lesser-known and traditional.
Erez Dessel (USA 1998) is an improvising pianist and composer. After graduating from the New England Conservatory, Dessel moved to Savannah, GA, where he served as music director at the Savannah Music Festival Jazz Academy, Savannah’s first free after-school youth jazz program. He also kept up an active performing career in the Southeast, including presenting an hour-long improvised work for piano, pastel, and paper at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center. Since moving to Chicago he has worked continuously both as a performer and organizer, recording in an array of contexts with many internationally renowned musicians (including Ken Vandermark, Tim Daisy, Kim Alpert, and Ben Hall).
Gerrit Hatcher (USA 1991) is a Chicago-based tenor saxophonist, improviser, and composer. Hatcher's work typically engages with free jazz as a craft and set of practices that is as much historical as it is experimental. Gerrit has been involved in several working groups and other ensembles, based in Chicago and beyond. Without enumerating all of them, these have included collaborations with fellow Chicagoans Tyler Damon, Lia Kohl, Sam Wagster, Andrew Scott Young, Julian Kirshner, Paul Giallorenzo, Dave Rempis, Kent Kessler, Bill Harris, Eli Winter, Joshua Abrams, Peter Maunu, Katie Ernst, Ben Lamar Gay, Keefe Jackson, Marvin Tate and Mars Williams, as well as with artists based elsewhere including Jakob Warmenbol, Rob Magill, Patrick Shiroishi, Eli Namay, Erwan Keravec and Gaspar Claus. Hatcher founded his label Kettle Hole Records in 2019 and, in addition to his releases there, he has released work on Amalgam Music, Julian Kirshner’s imprint JAKI, Astral Spirits, No Index and The Bridge Sessions.
The members of Syzygia are:
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator. She performs with Eastern and Western oboes, single reeds and fiddle often incorporating reactive visuals, micro-controlled motors and hacked game controllers. Her interactive art weaves original music and new media into playable environments using sculpture, projections, sensors and motors, creating frameworks for compelling sensory exploration. Conservatory trained as an oboist, she toured internationally as a classical and avant-garde instrumentalist with a career that includes concerts, tours and a Grammy with the Chicago Symphony and performances with the Atlanta Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, Marlboro Music Festival, the Chicago Jazz Festival, FMP Festival, the Chicago World Music Festival and SXSW. She has played with Evan Parker, toured with Michael Vorfeld, studied with Roscoe Mitchell and her Trio album with Joseph Jarman and Tatsu Aoki received 4 stars from Downbeat Magazine. Her interactive installations have been written up in Make Magazine, supported by the NEA and exhibited at the MCA, ISEA and Thomas Blackman Gallery. This year she was selected to participate in the Chicago International Puppet Festival's Puppet Lab cohort and has active duet projects with Tatsu Aoki and Tim Daisy with soon to be released recordings. She is an environmental and animal activist and founded the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors. You can find out more about her @robbiehunsinger on FB & IG and at robbiehunsinger.com
Jamie Kempkers
Jamie Kempkers was a former student of classical cello repertoire who now finds creative fulfillment in improvisation and compositional experimentation in collaborative and solo work. He studied cello with Dr. Robert Ritsema and recorded with John Erskine at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He has been living in Chicago, playing improvised and/or experimental music since 2001. Currently, he is a member of Tatsu Aoki's Miyumi Project and is also a frequent collaborator on the experimental dance projects of Yoshinojo Fujima.
Jamie has just released a new album with Tatsu Aoki on Asian Improv Records, "The Amazing Music of Jamie Kempkers"
https://www.asianimprovrecords.com/product-page/air119-d

Michael Perkins
Since the late 90s pianist/composer Michael Perkins has been regularly performing and recording in the punk, electronic, and jazz scenes in and around Chicago. He’s worked as a session musician on many recordings for bands like Atari Star, Das Kapital, and The Lavellas as well recording with his own groups such as Sig Transit Gloria, Written in the Sand, Far Rad, and Mr 666. Michael spent 7 years as a sound engineer working at various live venues throughout the city, and spent 3 years as the resident recording engineer for Harold Arts Artist Residency in south Eastern Ohio. After leaving Harold Arts, Michael and his partner Heather Lynn started Templehead Gallery, first in Humboldt Park and then later in Pilsen, and for 5 years provided a venue for young artists/musicians who were looking for their first solo art show. Since then, Michael has been continuing to play jazz and blues on a regular basis in addition to the occasional free improvised electronic music set.
Jeff Chan
Chicago multi-instrumentalist/composer Jeff Chan is committed to sharing the Asian American experience through music. With a discography of more than 20 recordings as a leader, sideman and producer, Chan has performed extensively in the Chicago area, across the nation and in Europe. Critics have said that Chan is “… a voice to be reckoned with… (Brian Gilmore, JazzTimes)” and that his work is “music of uncommon majesty, spirituality and emotional depth (Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune).”
About the Presenter
Resonance Arts is committed to providing opportunities for performing artists and audiences to connect in spaces across the Chicago area. We elevate and prioritize multidisciplinary, progressive, and unconventional performances, with specific attention paid to amplifying new, emerging, and underrepresented creative voices. www.resonancearts.org