LCollective is a group of musicians and artists based in Brooklyn, Newark and Buenos Aires. We come from different backgrounds and share a commitment to programming and performing music that we love in open, inclusive and collaborative settings. We value art that creates spaces for intimate and introspective experiences and brings people together to explore new ways of participation and organization.
LCollective organizes events in New York, New Jersey and beyond. Recent projects include regular participation in the Piano+ concert series in Brooklyn, performances at DogStar Orchestra 15 in Los Angeles and Klangraum 2019 in Düsseldorf, a retrospective of experimental music and film by LA-based artist Madison Brookshire in New York and Pittsburg, and concerts and recordings with Germaine Sijstermans and Gabriela Areal in the Netherlands. Upcoming projects include a US northeast tour in 2020 and the launch of our record label
Teodora Stepančić is a composer, pianist and curator, founder of Piano+ and Shared Space concert series in Brooklyn, and core member of Netherlands based ensemble Modelo 62.
Jesse Greenberg is a Queens-based percussionist, keyboardist, composer, and arts educator. He performs with the troubadour-inspired trio Zamler-Carhart/Rauh/Greenberg, as a soloist, and as a glassy ruckus. He is the founding percussionist and composer-in-residence with ensemble ShoutHouse.
Douglas Farrand is a composer and musician living in Newark NJ and working in Orange NJ on a number of projects at the intersection of experimental music, popular education, and place-based organizing. He is concerned with developing practices that invite us to explore our myriad processes of listening and embody a collective investigation of place, community, and personhood.
Gabriela Areal is a cellist, composer, improviser and teacher based in Buenos Aires. She is the founder of SAGITAL, a concert series and publishing house dedicated to some shades of experimental music.
Katie Porter plays clarinet, bass clarinet, sings, writes songs and curates performances. She exists mainly in the experimental realm, but can sometimes be found elsewhere.
Rachel Mangold is a collaborative and experimental double bassist living in Brooklyn, New York. With a practice rooted in inquiry and a commitment to cultural impression, she is weaving the threads of performance and participatory work into a holistic practice.
Jordan Dykstra is a Brooklyn-based composer and performer working in the fields of chamber music and media scoring. He received his undergraduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts and his masters degree — which focused on the connection between astronomy and microtonality — from Wesleyan University. In September 2020 New World Records released a composer portrait album entitled "The Arrow of Time.".
Amanda Tabor has been fortunate to travel the world as a musician, performing in Italy, Germany, England, China, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. She learned under the baton of Pierre Boulez as a member of his Lucerne Festival Academy and worked closely with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. With LCollective she plays french horn, casio keyboards and other objects.
Assaf Gidron is a composer, musician and sound designer. Originally from Tel Aviv, Assaf lived in the UK and the Netherlands before moving to Brooklyn where he writes and performs music, works in film sound, runs the Big Family Audio Co. studio and uploads images to the @moreshapes Instagram page.
Matt Lau is a musician and audio engineer, born in Hong Kong and based in Brooklyn. Together with Torin Geller he organizes Sidereal, a monthly deep listening event, and plays guitar with Daisy The Great. He also built this website that you're looking at.
Beloved collaborators: Evelyn Emile, Denera James, Christopher Foss, Lester St. Louis, Lucie Vítková, Lester St. Louis, Danielle Mink-Bellizzi, Eugene Kim, YoungEun Kim, Coleman Zurkowski, Rahul Nair, Laura Cetilia, Germaine Sijstermans, Torin Geller, Jordan Dykstra, John Hastings, J.P.A Falzone, Kwame Sorrell, Naeemah Z. Maddox