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Excerpt of a Feb 2012 performance at Audio for the Arts, Madison WI, sponsored by Surrounded By Reality.
Wrack + Rova Saxophone Quartet, with Tim Perkis and Gino Robair. Excerpt from the Oct 2010 premiere of On Procedural Grounds, Community Music Center, San Francisco.
Wrack performs Further Ado at Trinity Chamber Concerts, Berkeley CA 9/25/2010.
Compositions for improvising chamber ensembles with electronics. Cell Structure and Tarpit feature sfSound Group; the title piece features Wrack and Rova Saxophone Quartet with Tim Perkis and Gino Robair. Orgone Accelerator is a stereo realization of a work for 8-channel sound diffusion.
"The onetime Chicagoan started Wrack as a jazz-oriented project, but over time he's come to focus more and more on jagged themes, unwieldy time signatures, and tricky pinpoint interplay (a la Anthony Braxton), all played with the postpunk energy of his old band Lozenge . . . (Chicago Reader)
"Bruckmann effortlessly occupies the space between jazz and classical music, generating movements of somber reflection one minute, turbulent intensity the next. From Morton Feldman-esque minimalism to Charles Ives-like bluster, Wrack has few equals. . . " (Troy Collins, All About Jazz)
