E F N
Greg Hammontree & Chris Aiello
"Perfect vibe."
-Marrisa, Gallery 198
trumpet echoes that dissolve into vapor. deep bass, deconstructed rhythms, and bursts of experimental chaos. a beat-driven blur.
efn Background
Brooklyn based - the duo's shared credits include national tours in over 40 states, opening for Rahzel (The Roots), sold out performances at Konzerthaus Berlin (Germany), Lunigiana Music Festival (Italy), Bing Concert Hall (Stanford), Bimhaus (Amsterdam), Symphony Space, Birdland, and the Blue Note (NYC).
Kathryn O’Neill (voice) narrates a dream involving a scientist who conducts experimental self-testing aimed at integrating his body with natural systems—perhaps a little too enthusiastically. Chris Aiello and Greg Hammontree accompany the recorded voice with a live, improvised electroacoustic score using trumpet, looper, samplers, a Raspberry Pi, and a plant. A gently absurd bio-interactive element translates physical contact between a finger and the plant into musical outbursts.
For the Curious
Chris Aiello and Greg Hammontree build their sound from trumpet and samplers — no laptops, no decks. Everything happens live. Blurring the space between art music and club culture, they channel the raw energy of dance floors through the lens of live improvisation, like jazz in the ’40s and ’50s — when it shifted from nightlife to art form — but flipped for the electronic age.Before each set, EFN records local voices — site-specific snippets of people talking about what drives them, how they lose themselves in art, what it means to be human. Those voices become part of the music, grounding every performance in the place and people that inspired it.