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Tomeka Reid
is a cellist and composer who lives in New York, having recently moved from Chicago, where she was based for fifteen years. Reid has been a key member of ensembles led by musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, and Nicole Mitchell, many of which are associated with Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. She is the coleader of the string trio Hear in Now. Reid released her debut recording as a bandleader in 2015 with the Tomeka Reid Quartet (Jason Roebke, Tomas Fujiwara, and Mary Halvorson). Reid is a 2016 recipient of a 3Arts Award in music and received her doctorate in music from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2017.
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Taylor Ho Bynum
is a cornetist, composer, writer and educator. He has released albums with several jazz ensembles. As an educator, he has led ensembles at Northwestern University and was the director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble at Dartmouth University. His writing on music can be found in the New Yorker.
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Ugochi Nwaogwugwu
is a musician and poet of Nigerian descent who lives in Chicago. She is the founder of the Afro Soul Ensemble, which combines her choreo-poetic vocals with musical influences from around the world. Her most recent album, Love Shot, was released in 2018.
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Mike Reed
is a jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader of American and German nationality. He has played on more than fifteen albums, the most recent being Flesh and Bone (2017). Reed also produces live events and is the founding director of the Pitchfork Music Festival and owner of the Hungry Brain tavern in Chicago.
“On Onomatopoeia” was published as part of Two Ears and One Mouth, Triple Canopy’s twenty-sixth issue, which is made possible through the generous support of the Stolbun Collection, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.