Saxophonist

Alexander Serechenko

Alexander Serechenko (a.k.a. solo.operator) is a Moscow-based saxophone player and electronic musician. Alexander has merged his passion for programming and web development into numerous multidisciplinary works that span theater, dance, sound installation and net art. His Fluxus-inspired performances have been presented at Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Saint Petersburg Museum of Sound, ArchStoyanie Festival and other prestigious venues across Russia and Europe. Alexander has been a stalwart presence in Moscow’s free jazz scene and his albums have been released through influential experimental labels Kotä Records and TOPOT. Recently, Alexander released Random Drone through Kotä Records, a web-based generative music project that continually develops based on an evolving algorithm.

Sam Hillmer

Sam Hillmer is a Musician, Facilitator, and Organizer living in Bushwick Brooklyn. Sam is the founder of the band ZS, the youth Hip Hop presenting organization Representing NYC, and the conceptual art installation duo Trouble (The You Are Here Festival), and is a facilitator and organizer for Carnegie Hall’s Weil Music Institute, The Beacon Center for Arts and Leadership, and LEAP/ALLL. Sam is interested in the spiritual, political, and economic dimensions of local, communally practiced arts and activism in the entertainment and social services industries. Sam Hillmer joined OneBeat 2012 at Roulette and the Bring to Light Festival in NYC.

Weronika Partyka

Marrying eclectic instrumentation and the quivering “white voice” technique with modern electro-acoustic manipulation, Weronika Partyka invokes a place of longing. Her music gestures to the ancestral rites of an Eastern European folk tradition that is spectral and unearthly, reinterpreting rural Polish music across space and time. With a sense of deep connection to her Polish roots, Weronika updates the traditional song structures of her country with dashes of musique concrète. A gifted improviser with a rare touch for the saxophone, Weronika graduated from the Academy of Music in Poznan. She soon went on to embrace native ethnic instruments, including the duduk, okaryna, and fujara, with the dedication of a classically trained musician. Weronika has performed with the Art of Sound Saxophone Quartet and the Monolit Trio. She has also fostered fertile collaborations with a number of artists, including Rafał Zapała, in the spirit of promoting her home’s folk tradition.