Matthew Daher & Rachael Ahn Harbert

Matthew Daher is a percussionist, improviser, composer, and producer based in Detroit, MI. He holds a BMus in Jazz Performance from McGill University in Montréal, where he was based before relocating to Detroit in 2012. Daher’s creative endeavors are driven by gnostic curiosity and are a vehicle for ontological exploration. They are informed by a years of experimentation in ambient, electroacoustic, free jazz, hip-hop, and folk musics, meditation practice, and free movement practices, and frequently address themes of chronic anxiety, vulnerability, brokenness, and the seemingly paradoxical peace that can be discovered within them. Daher’s recent work includes local, national, and international multimedia collaborations with movement artists, film makers, podcasters, and visual artists. He recently directed and produced a large scale multimedia performance crafted around the music of his latest release – Dwelling Lightheartedly In The Futility Of Everything. Featuring work and performances by 13 Detroit movement and video artists, Dwelling… premiered at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Detroit in February 2015.

Rachael Ahn Harbert is a Detroit based movement artist and educator, with an ever so special interest in performance improvisation. She explores nature, process, and catharsis, and presents her findings through ephemeral and visual art. Rachael earned a Bachelor of Science in Dance from Wayne State University. She curated and performed in Terra Firma I: Grave Yard, PROJECTILES, Enlightened Discharge, Creative [dance] Incubator (12/2014), Stymie, Converge, and Creative [movement] Incubator (3/2015) during an Artist Residency through Spread Art @detroit contemporary from June 2014 through May 2015. She is a collaborating artist with Nerve and LaMarre and Dancers, along with musicians throughout Detroit and beyond.