Chris Cochrane and Kevin Bud Jones have been playing music together since 2013, initially in the band Collapsible Shoulder. Chris and Kevin would play gigs as a duo between Collapsible gigs, and continue to do so now. Their music has been described as neo-psychedelic with unpredictable twists and turns, an electronic sonic mash. In the fall of 2023 they composed and performed the score for Jim Hubbard’s film Nostalgia, which premiered at the LGBT Community Center in NYC as part of the NYC Aids Memorial Project arts program. Their most recent project it a new live score for Linda Austin’s dance piece, In Preparation for Disappearances to Come, on Feb. 6 – 8 at PICA in Portland.
Chris Cochrane is a Brooklyn-based guitarist/improviser/noise-maker/composer. Active in the Downtown NYC avant music scene since 1982, Chris has composed music for dance, theater and film, and has collaborated with a host of musicians including Zeena Parkins, John Zorn, Tim Hodgkinson, Billy Martin, Loren Connors, Marc Ribot, Jessica Pavone, Miguel Frasconi, Jamaaladine Tacuma, Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Brandon Lopez, Gelsey Bell, Galvin Weston, Stew, Eszter Balint, and many others. Chris co-founded the band No Safety with Zeena Parkins, and has been a member of numerous other bands, such as Curlew, Suck Pretty, The Same, Krackhouse, and others.
Kevin Bud Jones Kevin Bud Jones has been performing and recording music solo, in groups and various collaborations since the late 70s. Originally a guitarist, he is currently exploring analog synth and electronics. While enjoying a thirty plus year career in the NY film business, always kept his hand in music and the performing arts, as well as collaborating with visual artists from time to time. In the early 80s he played in Dog Eat Dog, a proto-DIY dance band that has a second posthumously released live LP coming out soon. His trio Airport Seven with painter/drummer Steve Dibenedetto, and bassist John Terhorst performed their final show at The Kitchen in NY in December 2013, around the same time he and Chris started playing together in Collapsible Shoulder. 2024 saw the beginning of a new project incorporating electronics and tape loops in live performance that should see daylight come Spring.
Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sue Ann Harkey has been a part of Seattle and New York’s underground music and visual arts scenes for decades. Her work blends philosophical and political lyrics as a songwriter with instrumental improvised music inspired by free jazz, electronic, folk, and Middle Eastern and African elements. Harkey discovered improvisational music’s power in 1979, when she began playing guitar with friends; this led to her exploration of the harp-guitar and the 12-string guitar, which she played with mallets, bows, plectrums, rods, and metal discs woven between the strings on invented alternate tunings. By 1980, Harkey formed the cassette label/political pamphlet distributor Cityzens for Non-Linear Futures (CNLF) and the improv group Audio Leter. She has recently self-published ‘a visual memoir’ bookzine featuring her black and white 35mm documentation of Seattle and New York’s early (1979-1988) performance art scenes.