EKG is the duo of Kyle Bruckmann and Ernst Karel. Their music is situated between acoustic and electronic, improvised and premeditated, disruptive and meditative; it crackles and hums with precariously restrained potential energy. Combining traditional and extended wind techniques with anachronistic (non-digital) electronic processing, they carefully sculpt a bizarre yet organic soundworld of shifting tones, sudden and creeping textures, elusive suggestions of possible melody, and microscopic noise.
The 'Ernst and Kyle Group' formed during the late 1990s in Chicago. Their first recording is Shift or latch on Crank Satori (2001). 2003 saw the release of a full length album on Locust Music's Object series, as well as tours of both the East and West Coasts. Their work continues even as Bruckmann now lives in San Francisco and Ernst Karel in Boston. A CD entitled No sign was released in early 2005 on Sedimental. Group, a trio album with Giuseppi Ielasi, was released in August 2006 on Formed Records.
As EKG, they have been joined on stage by the Jeffrey
Allport-Tim Olive duo, Thomas Ankersmit, Nicole Bindler, Alessandro Bosetti, Ben Bracken, Audrey Chen, Chris Cooper, Chris Heenan, Giuseppe Ielasi, Matt Ingalls, Kurt Johnson, Larry Marotta, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings, and David Rothbaum. Their music has been featured in video work by Amie Siegel, and by Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin. Individually, Bruckmann and Karel's extensive collaborative
credits include Josh Abrams, Jim Baker, Jeb Bishop, Olivia Block, Blowhole, Alessandro Bosetti, Anthony Braxton, Gust Burns, Cheer-Accident, Bobby Conn, Damon and Naomi, Ernesto
Diaz-Infante, Djalma Primordial Science, Tom Djll, Kevin Drumm, Gunda Gottschalk, Lance Grabmiller, Philip Greenlief, David Grubbs, Boris Hauf, Andy Hayleck, Steven Hess,
Robbie Hunsinger, Bonnie Jones, Greg Kelley, Annette Krebs, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Bob Marsh, Helen Mirra, Molecules, My Name is Rar-Rar, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakatani, Negativland, Oxbow, Jeff
Parker, Dan Plonsey, Polwechsel, Gert-Jan Prins, Key Ransone, Gino Robair, Frank Rosaly, Scott Rosenberg, Aiko Shimada, John Shiurba, Jason Soliday, Karen Stackpole, TV Pow, Ken Vandermark, Weasel Walter, Jack Wright, Otomo Yoshihide, and Michael Zerang.
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