Artist:Stephen Haynes
STEPHEN HAYNES 2+2=4 meets KENNY WARREN's SWEET WORLD- LOOVE Annex
THURSDAY, Jul 31 at LOOVE Annex, 238 N12 St, Brooklyn NY
LOOVE ANNEX is extra pleased to host this special double bill of expansive sound work in a clear and intimate setting:
STEPHEN HAYNES' 2+2=4
featuring
STEPHEN HAYNES, trumpet, cornet, various brass implements
CHRIS COCHRANE, guitar and guitar by-products
DANI DOBKIN, synths and electronics
MATT SARGENT, guitar and electronics
2 + 2 = 4 is a new meeting, a mix of two duos who, on the face of it, may seem quite different. What unites us is a love of sound and improvisation and a considered desire to build beauty in the moment - differently each and every time. A melding of two sets of paired friends. Expect the unexpected!
and KENNY WARREN'S SWEET WORLD
Featuring
KENNY WARREN - trumpet, compositions
STEPHEN HAYNES' 2+2=4
featuring
STEPHEN HAYNES, trumpet, cornet, various brass implements
CHRIS COCHRANE, guitar and guitar by-products
DANI DOBKIN, synths and electronics
MATT SARGENT, guitar and electronics
2 + 2 = 4 is a new meeting, a mix of two duos who, on the face of it, may seem quite different. What unites us is a love of sound and improvisation and a considered desire to build beauty in the moment - differently each and every time. A melding of two sets of paired friends. Expect the unexpected!
and KENNY WARREN'S SWEET WORLD
Featuring
KENNY WARREN - trumpet, compositions
CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN - cello
NATHAN ELLMAN-BELL - drums
"We believe that jazz is liberation music, a means of connecting us to our humanity, our communities and to nature. As an expression of radical love, free music empowers us to fight fascism, racism, militarism, and economic exploitation."
- SWEET WORLD
Sweet World's sound is a composite of its three members, each unique voices from New York's vibrant music scene. Melodic, rhythmic, jazz, folk and sonic exploration in the context of Kenny Warren's lively compositions. Their debut LP on Out of Your Head Records was hailed by the Best of Bandcamp as "the sonic representation of a beating heart"
here's some BIO info on these musicians:
Stephen Haynes
HAYNES is an improviser, organizer and recording artist. His practice ranges from small groups to large orchestras with a particular focus on working directly with composers in the development and performance of new music. This aspect of his work is prominently featured on Pillars, Tyshawn Sorey’s groundbreaking work for octet released on Firehouse 12 Records. He is also a founding member of Adam Rudolph’s East Coast version of Go: Organic Orchestra.
Haynes’ latest project – Knuckleball – is a modern take on the brass band, grounded in Free Music practice. Recorded during the spring of 2023, the music should see release in 2026 on the Fundacja Słuchaj! label as a box set.
Chris Cochrane
COCHRANE is a Brooklyn-based musician guitarist improviser noise maker collaborator and composer. Chris has worked with many musicians including Zeena Parkins, John Zorn, Tim Hodgkinson, Billy Martin. Loren Connors, Marc Ribot, Jamaaladine Tacuma, Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Brandon Lopez, Gelsey Bell, Galvin Weston, Stew, Eszter Balint, and many others. Chris formed the band No Safety with Zeena Parkins, and amongst other bands was in Curlew.He has also composed music for dance, theater and film since arriving full time in NYC, over forty years ago.
He plans to continue to collaborate and make music as long as he able to.
Dani Dobkin
DOBKIN is a New York City based artist, composer and educator currently working with sound, ceramics and modular synthesis. Recently their work has engaged with ideas of grief, decay and ephemerality. Past and recent collaborators include Yarn/Wire, International Contemporary Ensemble, CT::SWaM, Qubit and Women in Sound.As an artist and composer, their work has been showcased at a variety of venues and galleries including ISSUE Project Room (NYC), Dimenna Center for the Arts (NYC), The Clay Studio (Philadelphia), Spectrum (NYC), Fridman Gallery (NYC), Mom’s Gallery (NYC), The Wallach Gallery (NYC), The Rubin Museum (NYC), Public Records (NYC), Chronos Art Center (Shanghai), NextSunday (Tokyo) and Little Berlin (Philadelphia). Dobkin received a BFA from Bard College, both an MFA in Sound Art and a DMA in Music Composition from Columbia University. They are currently serving as an early career fellow at Columbia University and teaching electronic music at Bard College
Matt Sargent is a composer, guitarist, and recording engineer based in upstate New York. His music has been described as “bringing a sharpened sense of the transcendental into the 21st century.” (Paul Muller, Sequenza21) Writing about his album, Ghost Music, Bill Meyer states, “this music isn’t about following in anyone’s footsteps; it uses bare resources to establish a bounded and essential place.” (The Wire Magazine)
His albums include Illuminations (Sawyer Editions, 2024), Bend (Waveform Alphabet, 2023), Between Time and After (Chen Li Music, 2023), Tide (A Wave Press, 2020), Separation Songs (Cold Blue Music, 2019), Tide (for ten basses) (Marginal Frequency, 2019), and Ghost Music (Weighter Recordings, 2018).
Matt Sargent
SARGENT is currently engaged with expanding available repertoire for the pedal steel and electric guitar. In 2022, he commissioned new music for solo pedal steel from Michael Pisaro-Liu, Carl Stone, and Nomi Epstein. This season, his guitar collaborations with Robert Carl for just intonation guitar and electronics were released on Carl’s Infinity Avenue (Neuma Records, 2024). Most recently, his recording of James Romig’s hour-length piece for electric guitar, The Fragility of Time, was released by A Wave Press.Matt is an assistant professor of music at Bard College.
Kenny Warren
WARREN is a trumpeter and composer who has been active in NYC’s improvised music community since 2006.
He has made over a dozen records of his music with various ensembles including 3 LPs with his avant-country outfit Laila and Smitty, a handful of self-produced solo records, and jazz records with his quartet and trio for Whirlwind Recordings and Out of Your Head Records. Longtime jazz writer for The Chicago Reader Peter Margsak calls Kenny “A player of great imagination and subtlety who always seems to focus on an ensemble-oriented sound even on his own recordings”. As a side-person Warren has recently recorded with The Angelica Sanchez Nonet, Stephan Crump’s Passerine and Slow Water, The Anna Webber/Angela Morris Large Ensemble, and Tony Malaby’s Jersey Condombe. He has toured internationally with Jamie Baum, Bonobo, and Slavic Soul Party who has held a weekly residency at Barbes in Brooklyn for over 20 years. Warren grew up in Denver, CO where he was inspired at a young age by the generosity and artistry of the late great Ron Miles.
Christopher Hoffman
HOFFMAN is a cellist, composer, producer, engineer and filmmaker. He currently performs in Henry Threadgill's Pulitzer Prize winning ensemble Zooid, Grammy-Nominated Anat Cohen Tentet, Kenny Warren's Sweet World, Darius Jones Quintet and his own projects. He has directed several music videos, 3 short films and BTS pieces for feature films. His short "You Dog Likes Me More Than You" is available to view on Amazon Prime and his short "Salamander" is currently screening in American and European festivals. He served as the Director of Production and Engineering at New School for 17 years. He has worked with Martin Scorsese, Yoko Ono, Jack Antonoff, Iron & Wine, Ryan Adams, Jack Huston, Marianne Faithfull, Michael Pitt & Pagoda, Marc Ribot, Butch Morris, Lee Konitz, Anna Webber, Ryan Scott, Anthony Coleman, Jeremiah Cymerman and many others.
Nathan Ellman-Bell
ELLMAN-BELL is one of NYC’s most versatile and in demand drummers. He co-leads the avant-pop band Wild Idol with singer Nora Palka, and the Brooklyn jazz-rock band Slow Tiger. He plays with countless bands including those of Sebastien Amman, Olli Hirvonen, Kenny Warren, Michael Sarian, and Aleksi Glick. He is also a member of Brass Against who he has recorded and toured with extensively. In 2024 Brass Against spent 3 months in Europe on tour which included a five week run in support of the rock band Tool. Nathan grew up in Southern California and studied music at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
NATHAN ELLMAN-BELL - drums
"We believe that jazz is liberation music, a means of connecting us to our humanity, our communities and to nature. As an expression of radical love, free music empowers us to fight fascism, racism, militarism, and economic exploitation."
- SWEET WORLD
Sweet World's sound is a composite of its three members, each unique voices from New York's vibrant music scene. Melodic, rhythmic, jazz, folk and sonic exploration in the context of Kenny Warren's lively compositions. Their debut LP on Out of Your Head Records was hailed by the Best of Bandcamp as "the sonic representation of a beating heart"
here's some BIO info on these musicians:
Stephen Haynes
HAYNES is an improviser, organizer and recording artist. His practice ranges from small groups to large orchestras with a particular focus on working directly with composers in the development and performance of new music. This aspect of his work is prominently featured on Pillars, Tyshawn Sorey’s groundbreaking work for octet released on Firehouse 12 Records. He is also a founding member of Adam Rudolph’s East Coast version of Go: Organic Orchestra.
Haynes’ latest project – Knuckleball – is a modern take on the brass band, grounded in Free Music practice. Recorded during the spring of 2023, the music should see release in 2026 on the Fundacja Słuchaj! label as a box set.
Chris Cochrane
COCHRANE is a Brooklyn-based musician guitarist improviser noise maker collaborator and composer. Chris has worked with many musicians including Zeena Parkins, John Zorn, Tim Hodgkinson, Billy Martin. Loren Connors, Marc Ribot, Jamaaladine Tacuma, Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Brandon Lopez, Gelsey Bell, Galvin Weston, Stew, Eszter Balint, and many others. Chris formed the band No Safety with Zeena Parkins, and amongst other bands was in Curlew.He has also composed music for dance, theater and film since arriving full time in NYC, over forty years ago.
He plans to continue to collaborate and make music as long as he able to.
Dani Dobkin
DOBKIN is a New York City based artist, composer and educator currently working with sound, ceramics and modular synthesis. Recently their work has engaged with ideas of grief, decay and ephemerality. Past and recent collaborators include Yarn/Wire, International Contemporary Ensemble, CT::SWaM, Qubit and Women in Sound.As an artist and composer, their work has been showcased at a variety of venues and galleries including ISSUE Project Room (NYC), Dimenna Center for the Arts (NYC), The Clay Studio (Philadelphia), Spectrum (NYC), Fridman Gallery (NYC), Mom’s Gallery (NYC), The Wallach Gallery (NYC), The Rubin Museum (NYC), Public Records (NYC), Chronos Art Center (Shanghai), NextSunday (Tokyo) and Little Berlin (Philadelphia). Dobkin received a BFA from Bard College, both an MFA in Sound Art and a DMA in Music Composition from Columbia University. They are currently serving as an early career fellow at Columbia University and teaching electronic music at Bard College
Matt Sargent is a composer, guitarist, and recording engineer based in upstate New York. His music has been described as “bringing a sharpened sense of the transcendental into the 21st century.” (Paul Muller, Sequenza21) Writing about his album, Ghost Music, Bill Meyer states, “this music isn’t about following in anyone’s footsteps; it uses bare resources to establish a bounded and essential place.” (The Wire Magazine)
His albums include Illuminations (Sawyer Editions, 2024), Bend (Waveform Alphabet, 2023), Between Time and After (Chen Li Music, 2023), Tide (A Wave Press, 2020), Separation Songs (Cold Blue Music, 2019), Tide (for ten basses) (Marginal Frequency, 2019), and Ghost Music (Weighter Recordings, 2018).
Matt Sargent
SARGENT is currently engaged with expanding available repertoire for the pedal steel and electric guitar. In 2022, he commissioned new music for solo pedal steel from Michael Pisaro-Liu, Carl Stone, and Nomi Epstein. This season, his guitar collaborations with Robert Carl for just intonation guitar and electronics were released on Carl’s Infinity Avenue (Neuma Records, 2024). Most recently, his recording of James Romig’s hour-length piece for electric guitar, The Fragility of Time, was released by A Wave Press.Matt is an assistant professor of music at Bard College.
Kenny Warren
WARREN is a trumpeter and composer who has been active in NYC’s improvised music community since 2006.
He has made over a dozen records of his music with various ensembles including 3 LPs with his avant-country outfit Laila and Smitty, a handful of self-produced solo records, and jazz records with his quartet and trio for Whirlwind Recordings and Out of Your Head Records. Longtime jazz writer for The Chicago Reader Peter Margsak calls Kenny “A player of great imagination and subtlety who always seems to focus on an ensemble-oriented sound even on his own recordings”. As a side-person Warren has recently recorded with The Angelica Sanchez Nonet, Stephan Crump’s Passerine and Slow Water, The Anna Webber/Angela Morris Large Ensemble, and Tony Malaby’s Jersey Condombe. He has toured internationally with Jamie Baum, Bonobo, and Slavic Soul Party who has held a weekly residency at Barbes in Brooklyn for over 20 years. Warren grew up in Denver, CO where he was inspired at a young age by the generosity and artistry of the late great Ron Miles.
Christopher Hoffman
HOFFMAN is a cellist, composer, producer, engineer and filmmaker. He currently performs in Henry Threadgill's Pulitzer Prize winning ensemble Zooid, Grammy-Nominated Anat Cohen Tentet, Kenny Warren's Sweet World, Darius Jones Quintet and his own projects. He has directed several music videos, 3 short films and BTS pieces for feature films. His short "You Dog Likes Me More Than You" is available to view on Amazon Prime and his short "Salamander" is currently screening in American and European festivals. He served as the Director of Production and Engineering at New School for 17 years. He has worked with Martin Scorsese, Yoko Ono, Jack Antonoff, Iron & Wine, Ryan Adams, Jack Huston, Marianne Faithfull, Michael Pitt & Pagoda, Marc Ribot, Butch Morris, Lee Konitz, Anna Webber, Ryan Scott, Anthony Coleman, Jeremiah Cymerman and many others.
Nathan Ellman-Bell
ELLMAN-BELL is one of NYC’s most versatile and in demand drummers. He co-leads the avant-pop band Wild Idol with singer Nora Palka, and the Brooklyn jazz-rock band Slow Tiger. He plays with countless bands including those of Sebastien Amman, Olli Hirvonen, Kenny Warren, Michael Sarian, and Aleksi Glick. He is also a member of Brass Against who he has recorded and toured with extensively. In 2024 Brass Against spent 3 months in Europe on tour which included a five week run in support of the rock band Tool. Nathan grew up in Southern California and studied music at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
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