Collaborator Bios (listed by piece)


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Hahn Rowe (Composer, producer, engineer & multi-instrumentalist) migrated freely between the rock, electronic music, improvisation & new music scenes for over 20 years. Most notably, he is known for a uniquely personal approach to the violin and guitar as a member of musical groups such as Glenn Branca’s ensemble & Hugo Largo. He can be heard on many recordings by people such as David Byrne, Antony & the Johnsons & Michael Brook. Rowe is the recipient of 3 Bessie Awards for his scores for the dance work of Margarita Guergue (We Were Never There, ‘89), Bebe Miller (Verge, ‘01) & Meg Stuart and Benoit Lachambre (FORGERIES, LOVE, AND OTHER MATTERS, ‘06). He has contributed musical scores for John Jasperse & David Dorfman. His work with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods has resulted in the creation of 5 major evening length dance/theater works. He is also active as a composer for film and television, creating scores for films such as Clean, Shaven by Lodge Kerrigan, Spring Forward by Tom Gilroy & Married in America by Michael Apted. Rowe recently completed the score for Do Animals Cry, the latest work by choreographer Meg Stuart.


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Zeena Parkins (Composer/Musician) is a composer, improviser and sound artist living in NYC. She collaborates with many artists in a variety of disciplines, most recently: Christian Marclay, Bjork, Mandy McIntosh, Jennifer Lacey, Daria Martin, Kaffe Matthews, Neil Greenberg, Tin Hat, Matmos, Emmanuel vo-Dinh, Alan Licht and Carlos Giffoni. With Ken Parker and Doug Henderson, Zeena developed and built her one-of-a-kind electric harp. She has also devoted herself to expanding the language of the acoustic harp both through extended techniques and with electronic processing. Zeena has written for film, dance, video, large-scale works, chamber pieces and solo works. She was awarded a Bessie (‘97) for her work with choreographer Jennifer Monson. Current collaborations include: Eclipse Quartet, who is premiering two of her new string quartets at Roulette/Location One, which will also be released on Tzadik in Spring ‘06; Phantom Orchard, a collaborative project with laptop wizard Ikue Mori, with whom she maintains an active touring schedule and will release a second CD in Fall ’06; and sound artist Doug Henderson, with whom she is working on an installation version of the piece $ Shot, to be premiered at Diapason in Fall ‘06.


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Jonathan Bepler (Composer) has been doing music and sound in collaborative settings for many years. Recent projects include a mobile soundtrack for rural Japan, live surround-sound karaoke performances in NY and Europe, multi-channel sound installations at PS1 and elsewhere, and a musique concrete porno score. He has worked often with choreographers including Sasha Waltz, Wendy Perron, Jennifer Lacey, Susan Rethorst, Jennifer Monson, K.J. Holmes, DD Dorvillier, and Scotty Heron. He has composed the music for the Cremaster films in a ten-year collaboration with artist Matthew Barney. Current projects include a commission by Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, an opera/film in Greece with artist Eve Sussman, and multi-room collaboration with Sasha Waltz in Berlin. He lives in
Brooklyn with wife Nathalie and baby Jolie. More info at jonathanbepler.com.


Ammar Eloueini (Set Designer), born in Beirut 1968, received a DPLG with honors from Paris (1994) and a MSAAD from Columbia University (1996). He received acknowledgement with the Albums des Jeunes Architectes by the French Ministry of Culture (2002), he was also awarded the Villa Medicis Hors les Murs (1999). His designs have been featured in solo and group exhibits and published worldwide. Currently, Eloueini chairs the Digital Media Program and teaches design studio at the University of Illinois in Chicago, as well as collaborating with Archeworks design laboratory. As a registered architect in France,
Eloueini maintains his practice, Digit-all Studio (est. 1997), in Paris and Chicago.


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Chris Peck (Composer) is an electronic musician and composer, primarily concerned with listening, field recording, live performance and improvisation with the computer, and collaboration with dance. In addition to his work with John Jasperse and Juliette Mapp, Chris has composed scores for choreographers including David Dorfman, Jeanine Durning, and Eleanor Bauer. Chris regularly collaborates with composer/electronicist Jaime Fennelly and the trio psi (Jaime Fennelly, Chris Forsyth, and Fritz Welch). Other frequent musical collaborators include composer/pianist Stephen Rush and violinist Regina Sadowski. Chris is a proud alumnus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he studied electronic music and computer engineering. He is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.