The Active Percussion Duo

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Saturday, January 24, 2015
8:00 pm

The Active Percussion Duo was formed a long time ago by active percussionists Michael Brenneis and Geoff Brady as an excuse to bang cutlery together and call it art. Between long periods of inactivity the duo put a lot of time, effort, hard work, gumption, and creativity into finding new pieces of cutlery to bang together. Seriously, both gentlemen are accomplished bangers of cutlery....and composers and band leaders and film scorers and song writers and instrumentalists of many stripes. Attend this performance to see and hear the results of 15+ years of collaboration by two sensitive, brash, thoughtful, thoughtless, experimental, creative musicians.