Homeroom S Physics For Listeners Series Connects Local Trio Zrl With Four Disparate Composers

Chicago nonprofit arts programmers Homeroom coordinate the concert and recording series Physics for Listeners, which connects local composers and performers from diverse musical traditions. For the current iteration (following installments in 2010 and 2012), Homeroom worked with improvising trio ZRL (clarinetist Zachary Good, percussionist Ryan Packard, and cellist Lia Kohl) to commission ten-minute pieces by Ben Lamar Gay, Ayanna Woods, Sam Scranton, and the members of Ohmme. Reader critic Peter Margasak has said of ZRL that “it’s difficult to describe them in terms of genre—they’re interested in exploration, wherever it may take them.” On Saturday, June 1, ZRL play their four commissioned pieces at Constellation to celebrate the release of the music on vinyl—as an album also called Physics for Listeners.

s/t by Ethers