After retiring his project Dirty Beaches, Alex Zhang Hungtai has been focusing on explorations of improvised music, Free Jazz, and his new role as a composer. His newer compositions predominantly work with saxophone, synthesizers, percussion and piano, furthering his research on ritualistic music of liminality. Besides his solo work, he is also a member of a Free Jazz/experimental trio with Portugese minimalist/architect David Maranha, and Free Jazz Drummer Gabriel Ferrandini in Lisbon. Living in New York City, Zhang currently works as a composer for film soundtracks, along with acting in independent films. Greg Fox is a New York City born-and-bred drummer, multidisciplinary artist, and teacher. He has played on and released 49 records since 2008, including his work with Liturgy, ZS, Ben Frost, Colin Stetson, Skeletons, Hieroglyphic Being, Man Forever, and others, as well as with his own solo work and his projects GDFX and Guardian Alien. Fox has toured worldwide with various groups and collaborations, held residencies at The Clocktower NYC and was awarded “Best Drummer in NYC” by the Village Voice in 2011. Currently spending 2016 for the most part at home in NYC, he is working on new collaborations and compositions, teaching individual and group drum lessons, and exploring new territory as a solo artist, using a hybridized electroacoustic drum setup to explore new dimensions through the traditional gestures of the modern drummer and the possibilities inherent in electronic and computer music. Michael Beharie is a musician based in New York City. His music sits at the imagined intersection between sound system culture, pop transmission and free improvisation. Michael’s latest efforts include the song-cycle EP Voices, three film scores for Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo and a duo piece for himself and cellist Teddy Rankin-Parker. Beharie performs regularly in and outside of NYC and recently joined avant-noise outfit ZS.

Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is a Cantonese Australian vocalist based in New York. Using the voice, feedback, and live processing, Lee’s practice is primarily concerned with risk-taking, collaboration, and improvisation. Lee has performed in over 350 contexts ranging from large institutions such as the Lincoln Center to DIY basements around the world. She has been recognized as “extraordinary” by The New Yorker, and has been featured in New York Times, Washington Post, and Wire Magazine. As a composer, Lee has been commissioned by leading new music and media enterprises including the International Contemporary Ensemble and HBO Max. Lee was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room (2019) and Van Lier Fellow at Roulette (2021). Her long standing collaborators include: Conrad Tao (Forbes 30U30) and Ikue Mori (MacArthur Fellow). Lee is passionate about maximizing the surface area of boundary-breaking music and guest lectures frequently at high school, undergraduate, and graduate-level programs around the country. In 2023, she founded a record label & distribution platform, First Formants, dedicated to supporting pioneering artists in music & sound.

Zane Morris is a guitarist based in Brooklyn NY. Performing solo for over a decade, his playing has come to be defined by a structured, ecstatic, and sparse form of minimalist guitar. Formerly known as Tint, Morris delivered his final blistering LP “Ricochet Screen” in 2018 during the concluding era of the notorious experimental label Root Strata. Following a debilitating workplace injury and eventual rehabilitation, Morris has re-emerged abandoning his alias in a more tempered playing style. Though classically trained and raised on underground hardcore, Morris has made efforts to invert aural domination. His new work counters past approaches via a tranquil distribution of simmering motifs in a style transfixed on his training as a bell ringer at Trinity Church in Manhattan and his friendship with guitarist Loren Connors. Forging a new path untethered from recitation of any new release, the live setting is an ideal opportunity to witness the ongoing evolution of Zane Morris’ unique contribution to the minimalist canon.