Zach Rowden

About

Zach Rowden works in drone, repetitive structures and noise, and he's based in New Haven, Connecticut. He's a collaborator by habit, with a long list of partners across the experimental and improvised scenes. That includes the duo Tongue Depressor with Henry Birdsey, and Red Yellow Blue Green Black with Austin Larkin. He's also played with Leila Bordreuil, Aki Onda, Arien Wilkerson and Paul Flaherty. One of the more striking entries on his résumé is the Hyperion Ensemble, where he performed under the direction of Iancu Dumitrescu, a name tied to the more rigorous end of electroacoustic composition. Put together, it paints a picture of a musician who moves easily between free improvisation, musique concrète and slow, grinding minimalism.