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Woodwind participant Colin Stetson may play powerfully even though circular deep breathing for long stretches, can pull multiphonics from a sax with great skill, and may control an audience’s interest with his concentrate and melodic improvisations. Stetson was created and elevated in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he became skillful on …

After departing noise experimenters Harry Pussy (and, at exactly the same time, husband Expenses Orcutt) around 1996, Adris Hoyos took her pounding drum assault and primal-scream vocals to Transmitting, a new task where she teamed both expertly and personally with Darkness Band guitarist Graham Lambkin. Transmitting worked in quite similar …

Transmitting, aka the Transmitting Trio, was originally a quartet formed in Ann Arbor, MI, in the mid ’90s, even though most of its users were going to the University or college of Michigan College of Music. Saxophonist/clarinetist Colin Stetson, clarinetist Stuart Bogie, bassist Eric Perney, and drummer Andrew Kitchen gigged …