For over 15 years, Chicago-based duo Coppice (Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer) has created experimental music centered on auditory pairings. Currently, Coppice is exploring the timbres, tones, and shapes of idiphones (a kind of musical instrument whose own substance vibrates to produce sound), and strategies in spatial audio (actual and simulated). With this pairing, Coppice folds in elements of past works into new forms, presenting a repertoire of echoes.Coppice’s experiments include Bellows & Electronics (2009–2014), Physical Modeling & Modular Syntheses (2014–2018), and Phonography & Fiction (2018–2022). These musical trajectories and their respective instruments and devices are documented on this website, which also includes writings on its creative processes. Coppice has been praised as “rich and highly abstract,” “volatile,” “bewildering,” “a universe unto itself,” “music that simply exists on its own terms.” Ranging between installations and performances, its works have been presented at museums, universities, and DIY spaces in the US, and published internationally on numerous artist-run labels.
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