Marvin Tate + Hunter Diamond
with special guest Irene Hsiao (2023)
Presented by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Experimental Sound Studio, and performed at Art Expo Chicago 2023.
This performance was in conversation with the site-specific sculptural piece “Turn of the Tide” by Beijing/NYC artist Jennifer Wen Ma. Chicago movement artist Irene Hsiao (also Ma’s “dedicated destroyer”) who had already been presenting interactive performances with the piece for several days seamlessly folded into our work and offered an invaluable bridge between us and Ma’s immense installation.
Praiseworthy:
An Intelligent and Prompt Negro
(2023)
This is a preview and a works-in-progress performance of a large format stage piece conceived by Samuel J. Lewis II. In this segment, Lewis tells a story of his great great grandfather Phil McBride, who was written about in the Memphis Daily Appeal on August 28, 1872 after having taking action to avert a “railroad disaster.” This performance was given at Constellation Chicago and presented by the 2023 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.
Samuel J. Lewis II: voice, crankie, props
Hunter Diamond: drums, percussion, field recordings, saxophone
Metal + Wood live
(2023)
Captured live at Chicago’s annual Tomorrow Never Knows Festival, Quin Kirchner and I continued our ongoing duo collaboration.
To hear the full-length album from this duo, visit curiorecordings.com or hunterdiamond.bandcamp.com
For Pharoah
(2022)
Just hours after learning of the passing of Pharoah Sanders, Mike Reed and I gave a performance at the 2022 Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
At the pulpit of the Augustana Church, an appropriate place to pay homage to Pharoah considering his legacy of melding the artistic with the spiritual, we dedicated our performance to him.
Hunter Diamond - saxophone, clarinet, percussion, spoken word
Mike Reed - drums, amplifier
Comfort Music +
(2021)
Presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Comfort Station, and Homeroom Chicago on April 11, 2021.
A fortuitous first meeting with movement artist Irene Hsiao prompted a meditative exploration of Comfort Station's morning light.
Originally streamed on Experimental Sound Studio's Quarantine Concert series on April 22nd, 2021.
Ragdale Ring
(2020)
Tr.An.Si.St.Or.
(2020)
Conceived by architectural design team Outpost Office, “Drawing Fields” is a reimagining of the original Ragdale Ring garden theatre designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1912. Embracing a design approach that celebrates the ring as a temporal condition of performance, GPS-controlled field marking robots create a series of site-specific designed produced throughout the Ragdale campus at 1:1 scale.
Movement: Sara Zalek
Sound: Hunter Diamond
TR.AN.SI.ST.OR. is a six part video series, all of which were taken from a single performance in February, 2020. This project is a precursor for “A Held Space,” released on Woolgathering Records in September, 2020.
BLACK DIAMOND:
Artie Black : woodwinds, percussion
Hunter Diamond : woodwinds, percussion
What Goes Around:
Music for 10 poets and seven musicians - (2019)
Incantations
performed at the Art Institute of Chicago
(2018)
Text: Eric Diamond // Music: Hunter Diamond
Conceived, composed, rehearsed, recorded, and presented at the Atlantic Center for the Arts during an artist residency in the summer of 2019.
Poets: Cornelius Eady, Jubi Arriola-Headley, Aileen Bassis, Monica Brown, Travis Craig, Bernard Ferguson, KT Herr, Irene Mitchell, Michele Randall, John Young
Musicians: Nicole Mitchell, Chris Williams, John Niekrasz, Maxx Katz, Jasmine Lovell-Smith, Abel Cisneros, Hunter Diamond
This trio uses the enchanting energy of the performance space to invoke the spirit of both current and historical Chicago improvised music.
Hunter Diamond : woodwinds, percussion, voice
Leroy Bach : electric guitar, percussion
John Sutton : bass, prepared bass, percussion
Solo (2017)
An exploration of sound and melody using saxophone and various percussion
Recorded in Gainesville, FL on 12.28.17