Genetti+Maunu / Brown+Jones

∆ Carol Genetti and Peter Maunu have played as a duo for many years around chicago in venues such as Beat Kitchen, Elastic Arts, Constellation and the likes. Their practice is rooted in free improvisation, with a proclivity towards investigations of hidden melodies and sounds that come forth within the energy of musical experimentation. Here is a small sample of their performance at the Comfort Station from 2015.

∆ A transplant from the Los Angeles music scene, guitarist/violinist Peter Maunu has toured, performed and recorded with a long list of diverse musicians including Charles Lloyd, Jean-Luc Ponty, Bobby McFerrin, Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, Charlie Haden, Archie Shepp, and Grace Slick. As the guitarist on the Arsenio Hall Show, he performed nightly with legends like Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Ringo Starr, Madonna, Ray Charles, NWA, Public Enemy, and many more. Additionally, Peter contributed to the soundtracks of film scores including Crash, Bobby, Food Inc., and tv shows Chicago Hope, Arrested Development and CSI New York. Since relocating to Chicago, he has performed and recorded with improvisers Jack Wright, Carol Genetti, Gerrit Hatcher, Julian Kirshner, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dave Rempis, Michael Zerang, Mars Williams, Jim Baker, Tomeka Reid, Katherine Young, Jason Roebke, Avreeyal Ra, dancer Ayako Kato and many others. In addition, he founded, co-curates and performs at the Splice Series, a bimonthly improvisation series at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago.