Steve Nelson-Raney: tenor saxophone
Hal Rammel: invented instruments

Steve Nelson-Raney and Hal Rammel have been playing together since the early 1990s in duo performances, in the trio Audiotrope , and in a wide variety ensemble projects in Milwaukee, Chicago, and New York. In 1998 they released the duo CD titled breathing on the Penumbra Music. This return performance at Mother Fool-s will include solo and duo improvisations on tenor saxophone and invented instruments.

Steve Nelson-Raney teaches jazz studies and composition at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Besides performing regularly as saxophonist with Audiotrope, and in a duo with percussionist Jon Mueller, Nelson-Raney performs in a variety of other contexts in the Milwaukee area. His art-making extends to writing, photography and book-making as well as presenting and recording ongoing improvisations for saxophone and piano and composition in various mediums .

Hal Rammel has been designing and building musical instruments since the mid 1970s. He was an active participant in the improvised and experimental music scene in Chicago from the early 1980s through the mid 90s. Since moving to southeastern Wisconsin in the early 1990s, Rammel has been deeply involved in Milwaukee's experimental music scene, playing in the ensembles Audiotrope, Raccoons, and the Lost Data Project.