Cracked Refraction

Wrack skirts the boundaries of an ever-evolving music tradition hovering at the crossroads of other traditions. It is both a chamber ensemble with highly unusual instrumentation and a book of compositions tailor-made for the personalities of it's members. While the compositions' melodic and contrapuntal content is reminiscent of European-American classical modernism, their modular structures and improvisational procedures are heavily indebted to the innovations of the African-American Creative Music continuum. Oboist Kyle Bruckmann founded the project in Chicago in 2002. The current members of Wrack are: bass clarinetist Jason Stein, bassist Anton Hatwich, drummer Tim Daisy, and violist Jen Clare Paulson.