Hal Rammel and Matt Turner

Art in the cafe...

Members of Red Pine


"Permutations of Red Pine"


September 2026



A Red Pine tree was planted at the corner of 212 Merry Street in the late 60s that evolved over the decades into a cooperative household. We are making it a place for comity and creativity; Clarity and the imagination; we change detritus of early 21st century late stage capitalism into art, shrine, paintings, music, sculptures, urban Permaculture and homesteading experiments. We appreciate the used, the worn out, ever crumbling and reassembling; as we all are all the time.
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Friday, March 15, 2013

Hal Rammel (amplified palette) and Matt Turner (cello) present an evening of improvisations to celebrate their new recording, Fractures and Phantoms (Penumbra).

Hal Rammel designs and builds musical instruments for the recording and performance of original compositions and improvisations. He has released recordings on Atavistic, Crouton, Soutrane, and Penumbra Music. His most recent recording is titled Agog and features a variety of solo percussion pieces using tabletop arrangements of amplified palettes.

Cellist Matt Turner performs in myriad of styles and has performed in Canada, Europe and Asia. He appears on over 100 recordings on Sketch/Harmonia Mundi, Nato /Hope Street, Ayler, Clean Feed, Illusions, Music and Arts, Accurate, Polyvinyl, Cadence Jazz and others and currently performs and records with Bill Carrothers, Randy Sabien and the Jean-Marc Foltz Trio.

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