Threnody Ensemble

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Dave Cerf and Erik Hoversten have been collaborating since they were three years old. Over the past 25 years, the tools of this collaboration have changed from Legos and action figures to musical instruments and computers. But apart from this, little has changed. They started Threnody Ensemble in 1997, and began collaborating with cellist Dominique Davison who had played in Erik’s other band, A Minor Forest. With producer Brian Paulson, they recorded the album Timbre Hollow over the next several years. As a part of this process, the trio was expanded to include cellist Amy Domingues as well as other musicians playing piano, contrabass, clarinet, and percussion. Timbre Hollow was released by the New Albion label in 2000. In both recorded and live incarnations, Threnody Ensemble’s identity is fluid. Though the group’s material was originally based around the interaction between two acoustic guitars and a cello, more recent works have eliminated this structure entirely. Today, Dave and Erik collaborate with a variety of musicians from disparate musical traditions and assemble different groups for each tour or project. It is difficult to determine how these former rock musicians playing so-called experimental music and recording for a classical music label fit into today’s music scene. Strictly speaking, Threnody Ensemble’s music is neither "classical" nor "popular." It is both composed and improvised, acoustic and computer-generated. Threnody Ensemble fuses elements of non-Wes

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Timbre Hollow

All Tomorrow's Parties 2.0

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All Tomorrow's Parties 2.0 (Curated by Shellac)

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All Tomorrow's Parties 2.0: Shellac Curated

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ATP 2002 (Disc 3)

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Weather Underground

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ATP 2002 [Disc 3]

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Timbre Hollow (Unreleased)

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ATP 2002

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All Tomorrow's Parties 2.0 Curated by Shellac

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All Tomorrow’s Parties 2.0

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