Artist description Taut, developmental style, full of counterpoint. Freely atonal. Tension, and release.

Music Style Free improvisation, and computer-based functions

Musical Influences Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg, John Coltrane, George Flynn, Alexander Scriabin

Similar Artists Georg Graewe, Anthony Braxton

Artist History The musicians have worked with prominent Chicago-based experimenters Gene Coleman, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Michael Zerang, and also internationally known Karlheinz Essl of Vienna.

Group Members Bob Falesch (keyboards, electronics), Bob Marsh (multi-instrumentalist)

Instruments metaPiano, cello, flute, computer-electronics, processed vocals

Albums FHMZ Trios and Quartets (ZeroEggzie), Co-lage (ZeroEggzie), Thaw (Jack Wright), That Nothing is Known (Recorded)

Press Reviews ...mischievous, unclassifiable soundscapes... The eerie babbling vocals of "Opera Viva" echo Steve Reich's "The Cave" in their incantatory intensity..."Back to Braque" sounds like a postmodernist version of Satie. Ted Shen, Chicago READER

Additional Info FM Reception photos: Curtis G. Staiger

Location Chicago, IL - USA

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