D.M. HOTEP is a 2022/25 Grammy Nominee who has been a core member of the Sun Ra Arkestra since 2001. Throughout that time he has continued rehearsing, internationally touring and recording under the direction of Marshall Allen. With Marshall Allen, he curates the Ghost Horizons concert series for Ars Nova Workshop.
He has also explored most genres of jazz, avant-garde and experimental music (for over a quarter of a century) in workshops, performances, and residencies with many ensembles, educational institutions, and organizations including: Temple University BEEP program (Artist in Residence), Bowerbird Org and Arcana New Music Ensemble, Metropole Univ. (with Dr. Ron Miles), Ensemble MusikFabrik, Curtis Institute of Music, Virginia Tech ICAT Center (w/ Dr. Eric Lyon), Phila. Jazz Composers Forum, Phila. Jazz Project's Satellites Are Spinning concert series and numerous regional and local musicians and ensembles.
His approach to guitar is part texture, part orchestration, and extends from the earliest jazz approaches to rhythm & improvisation to contemporary cosmic soul and futurist sound design.
Rooted in Sun Ra's precepts of discipline, sound-on-sound-rhythm-on-rhythm, and embracing the unknown and impossible, he strives to create evolving structures improvisations that function as living compositions, and compositions that become living improvisations - that approaches sound as both science-art and myth-science, to call forth harmonic soundscapes and shadows of unseen worlds.
JAIR- RÔHM PARKER WELLS is an American electric bassist. He is one of the founding members of the improvising band Machine Gun with Thomas Chapin and Robert Musso and the founder of the Meeting Interdisciplinary Arts Festival in Stockholm, Sweden. He lived in Stockholm, Sweden, from 1985 until 2018. He has collaborated with (among others): Bob Belden, Karl Berger, Daniel Carter, Jaron Lanier, John Sinclair, Shabacka Hutchings, and Tony Scott. In 2017, he was in residence at EMS in Stockholm where he began work on his opera #blacbuc. The work was composed on the Buchla and Serge modular systems at the institute. Compositions from his Liberation Cycle are featured as part of res·o·nant, the light and sound installation by artist Mischa Kuball at the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Raised in southern Germany, Jair-Rôhm moved to New York in 1978. He has performed at Vahdat Hall (Tehran, Iran), Xinghai Conservatory of Music (Guangzhou, China), Tribeca Performing Arts Center (New York), Globen Arena (Stockholm), Saxophone Jazz Pub (Bangkok, Thailand), Cafe Oto (London, England) and the Domicil Jazz Club (Munich, Germany).
SIGNAL SPECTRUM utilizes circuit bent drum machines, prepared autoharp, and modular synth to navigate fields of scattershot rhythm and cryptic melody.