Bordering the realms of performance, sound installation, and composition.
Ghost Band (2023) — A Ghost Band playing Ghost Venues in NYC, including the Village Voice offices (r.i.p.), The Continental (r.i.p.), CBGB’s (r.i.p.), and the original Knitting Factory (r.i.p.)
Low Tide (2023) — The culmination of a festival in a sewage drain tunnel in Queens, NY, and something of a “sequel” to Drain Brammage (2020). Featuring Jackie Coleman (trumpet), Smoota (trombone), and Joe Exley (tuba).
Horns To The Sky (2022) — 4 trumpets, bass sax, tuba, trombone, performing for a tree in Tompkins Square Park.
Dock To Dock (2022) — Sept. 27th, 2022, live at MoMA PS1, for the memorial performance for Richard Nonas.
Carriers (2021) — A performance for the Newtown Jazz Festival, we had 8 saxophonists on 8 different rooftops, playing music to each other from across the asphalt jungle. Like pigeons flying above us.
Drain Brammage (2020) — August, 2020. In Long Island City, Queens, at the height of the Covid Pandemic, during peak quarantine, The Tideland Institute presented a performance within an overflow sewage drain. The audience was lined up, socially distanced, along the bank, while I performed solo soprano and contrabass clarinets, upon a small raft, INSIDE the drainage tunnel. For almost everyone there, it was the first live performance anybody had seen in 6 months.
MECHA SONIC SESSIONS (2019) — March, 2019th. An event, performance, and experiment inside a functioning metal shop in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The musicians and performers used a handful of traditional instruments, mixed with functioning tools and machines located inside the shop. Anvils, forges, pneumatic drills, grinders, artillery shells, etc.
COLLECTIVE STREETS (2018) — June, 2018. Presented by The Collective Museum (now 28 Muses), we lined up 36 horn players (and 4 drummers) from Washington Square Park to Herald Square, in Manhattan. The 1-mile-long line of musicians began by playing a single note, that slowly grew through the natural overtone series, as the musicians began walking to their final destination. At the end of this slowly growing, spiraling march, the musicians created a spontaneous dance party.
YO YO (2018) — August, 2018. 3 instruments in a circle, just shy of out-of=ear shot. In celebration of the nuptials of Abigail Fischer and Jason Slayden, at Greenwood Music Camp (Massachusetts). Performed by Stefan Zeniuk (bass clarinet), Matt Plummer (trombone), and Kevin McFarland (cello).
OK LOLA (2018) — June, 2018, T-Space, Rhinebeck. Performed for the opening of sculptor Richard Nonas’ “Where None”. A compositions for 3 bass clarinets, in a forest, on opposing hills. The musicians were designed to be close enough to be able to hear each other, but far enough away that there is a lag in direct musical communication. Performed by Brian Landrus, Josh Sinton and Stefan Zeniuk.
Baritone Army (2008-present) Founded in 2008 by Stefan Zeniuk, Baritone Army is a group of baritone saxophonists who disrupt public environments with flash improvisations, commercial confrontation, and a playful philosophy of social commentary through satire and absurdism, surrealism and sonic baths. With chapters in NYC, Vilnius (Lithuania), Bristol (UK), Austin (Texas), and Truman State University (Missourri).