Artists Space

Travis Laplante is a composer, improviser, and saxophonist. Laplante leads the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance, as well as Subtle Degrees, his duo with drummer Gerald Cleaver. Recently, Laplante has composed long-form works for new music ensembles such as the JACK Quartet, Yarn/Wire, Attacca Quartet, and the ~Nois Saxophone Quartet. Laplante is also known for his raw solo saxophone concerts and being a member of the avant-garde quartet Little Women. He has performed and / or recorded with Tyshawn Sorey, Yuniya Edi Kwon, Wendy Eisenberg, Caroline Shaw, Qasim Naqvi, Ches Smith, Peter Evans, Sō Percussion, Ingrid Laubrock, Mary Halvorson, International Contemporary Ensemble, Nate Wooley, Tyondai Braxton, Darius Jones, Mat Maneri, Julia Bullock, and Matt Mitchell, among others. Laplante has released 13 critically acclaimed albums as a leader or co-leader on New Amsterdam Records, Aum Fidelity, Skirl, Tripticks Tapes, Out of Your Head Records, New Focus Recordings, and NNA Tapes. Laplante has toured his music extensively and has appeared at many major international festivals such as The Moers Festival (Germany), Jazz Jantar (Poland), Saalfelden (Austria), Jazz em Agosto (Portugal), Earshot (Seattle), Hopscotch (North Carolina), and the NYC Winter JazzFest. As a composer, Laplante has been commissioned by the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), the JACK Quartet, Roulette Intermedium, Yarn/Wire, the Yellow Barn Music Festival, the MATA festival, and The Jerome Foundation.

Dan Trueman is a musician: a fiddler, a collaborator, a teacher, a developer of new instruments, a composer of music for ensembles of all shapes and sizes. He has worked with ensembles such as So Percussion, the PRISM Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Gallicantus, the JACK Quartet, as well as individuals like scientist Naomi Leonard, choreographer Rebecca Lazier, poet Paul Muldoon, director Mark DeChiazza, fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird, guitarist/songwriter Monica Mugan, pianists Adam Sliwinski and Cristina Altamura, and many others. Dan’s work has been recognized by fellowships, grants, commissions, and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, the Bessies, the Fulbright Commission, the American Composers Forum, the MacArthur Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, Meet the Composer, among others. He is Professor and Chair, Department of Music at Princeton University.

Paul Arámbula is a songwriter. In January 2025, he released a new album titled Still's Keep on Gilgongo Records. Born and raised in Phoenix, AZ, Paul began playing in various projects from the age of 15. Namely The Chandails, Vegetable, Soft Shoulder, Mall, and finally under his own name as a solo act. Upon moving to Berlin, Germany, Paul gravitated towards writing songs on an old Yamaha keyboard/synthesizer due to its rhythm presets and "full accompaniment." This minimal setup was performed for years. Paul has played in places like Braille Satellite in Lithuania, Real No Real events in Madrid, KRAAK Fest for Kraak Records in Belgium, Association du Salopard in Lausanne, and concerts as well as a few compilations for Kashual Plastik out of Berlin. Now with recordings that have expanded a bit beyond the solo-keyboard, Paul's songs feature more layers and instruments. Helping him perform these songs for this event, Paul will be joined by backing band The Keeps—who premiered for Still's Keep album release concert at Blank Forms in Brooklyn in 2024. The Keeps (for this night) are: Jorge Garcia (guitar & keys), Mimi Howard (bass), Michael Mandeville (keys), and Alec Recinos (guitar & keys).

Sydney Schrader is an artist based in New York City. She has had solo exhibitions at Gandt, New York (2020, 2022) and Lars Friedrich, Berlin (2023, 2025). She was included in group exhibitions at CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson (2009); Cleopatra’s, New York (2011); and Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2025).