Name: The William Hooker trio with Ras Moshe Burnett and Hans Tammen
Start: 2025-02-15T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-15T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Rhizome DC

The William Hooker trio with Ras Moshe Burnett and Hans Tammen

Transparent Productions welcomes the William Hooker Trio with William Hooker (drums), Ras Moshe (saxophone and flute) and Hans Tammen (guitar, electronics) for a night of incendiary music at Rhizome DC. William’s latest recording is “Jubilation” on Org Music.
https://orgmusiclabel.bandcamp.com/album/jubilation
Saturday February 15th at 7:00PM at Rhizome DC. Admission: $20-$25, sliding scale.
“Recognized as an iconoclast, and one of the most innovative musicians and drummers of his generation, William knows no genre bounds and ceaselessly searches for new forms of music, always with the intent to inspire.” - THE WIRE
William Hooker (drummer, composer and poet) has created works that range from jazz and "new" music to experimental genres. He has released over 80 CDs as a leader. Mr. Hooker has performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Atrium at Lincoln Center, Wadsworth Atheneum, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Walker Art Center,MTV, The Kitchen, Roulette, Real Art Ways. He has also presented his work at the JVC Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, CMJ Music Festival, Vilnius Jazz Festival, Experimenta Argentina, The Knitting Factory and the Victoriaville Music Festival.
Hooker has received commissions and support from the New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer and colleges and universities such as Oberlin, Fordham, Columbia, New York University, Boston University, Princeton, Dartmouth and many more. Accompanying musicians have included Billy Bang, David Ware, William Parker, Thurston Moore, David Soldier, Roy Campbell, DJ Spooky, Steven Bernstein, Zeena Parkins, Lee Ranaldo, Jason Hwang, Sabir Mateen, Elliot Sharpe, David Murray, Ted Daniel, JD Parren and many more.
https://www.williamhooker.com/
Ras Moshe Burnett is a composer, multi-instrumentalist specializing in saxophone and flute, musicologist, and educator. Moshe has recorded and performed with William Hooker, Karl Berger, Stefan Christoff, Blaise Siwula, William Parker, Bill Cole's Un-tempered Ensemble, Marc Edwards, Rashid Bakr, Lisette Santiago, and other contemporary jazz artists. He has led or been a member of Izititiz, the Jesse Dulman Quartet, the Matt Lavelle Quartet, the Heritage Symphony Orchestra, the Ras Moshe Music Now Unit, the Ras Moshe Quartet, the William Parker Orchestra, and other ensembles. He has recorded for the Ayler, Utech, Straw2gold Pictures, KMB, and 577 labels.
In 2000, He founded the Music Now series at The Brecht Forum in Brooklyn, then at The Brooklyn Commons. The series still exists at Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn.
In June 2018 he received his BA in Music Studies at SUNY/Empire State College and in August 2023, a MFA in Music Composition from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Hans Tammen is just another worker in rhythms, frequencies and intensities. He likes to set sounds in motion, and then sit back to watch the movements unfold. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, his music is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear. This flows like clockwork, “transforming a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off” (Touching Extremes).
Tammen plays electronics, synthesizers and guitars, and writes for and conducts large ensembles, notably his all-electronic Dark Circuits Orchestra, and the 18-piece chamber-jazz ensemble Third Eye Orchestra, both founded in 2005. In 2021 FLUX String Quartet commissioned him to write a large work for string quartet and live electronics.
Tammen is currently teaching at School of Visual Arts, Hunter College and NYU. From 2001 to 2014 he worked at Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center in NYC, where he was responsible for the Client Services, Education and Artist In Residence program, helping countless digital media artists through completion of their works. As an arbitrator at BTQ in the 1990s, he spent a decade advising unions about electronic monitoring and surveillance at the workplace, and negotiating contracts and agreements to minimize surveillance aspects. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Kassel, studying on a stipend from Friedrich Ebert Foundation.