The Collected presents violinist Eric km Clark performing new works (some with electronics) by SF composers Adam Fong and Brent Miller, and New Yorkers Lisa Coons and Denise Gilson. Coons and Miller both take advantage of Clark's virtuosic skill with indeterminate scores; Gilson draws on the solid new music chops that Clark displays in his work as violinist for the California EAR Unit; and Fong's work will feature Clark as a member of a vocal ensemble. Clark will also realize a new graphic score by John Hastings on his Simplified Violin^TM, a standard violin equipped with four E-strings.

Accomplished violinist, composer, and improviser Eric KM Clark is a devout interpreter of new and experimental music. Based in Los Angeles, he has worked with many of the world's most innovative artists and ensembles, including James Tenney, Jurg Frey, Michael Gordon, Antoine Beuger, Guy Maddin, Wadada Leo Smith, Christian Kesten, Michael Pisaro, and Butch Morris. Mr. Clark is a member of the genre setting new music ensemble The California E.A.R. Unit, Tavolacci/Clark duo, and the Kadima String Quartet. His playing has been released on the Innova, New World, Tonehole Music, Tzadik (upcoming), and Sundialtech labels; while the New York-based electric guitar quartet Dither recently released his composition exPAT on Henceforth records. Mr. Clark also co-founded and co-directs "the wulf.", a 501(c)3 non-profit experimental performance venue located in downtown LA, that provides free experimental concerts to the general public.

The Collected is a group of nationally active composers committed to advancing the publicity of recent music produced by living musicians. Dedicated to a broadly construed spirit of inclusion, the group presents not only their own compositions, as well as those of their teachers and influences, but also works by others that engage the limits of artistic imagination and defy a taxonomy of aesthetic divisions within new music. Embracing works informed by the music of disparate genres, the group's programming choices explore the creative exchanges within, between, and among compositions located at the periphery of classical, rock, jazz, and academic musical developments. Equally devoted to the concert endeavors of emerging performers and composers, the group's series of recordings on their own independent label increase the exposure of these musicians' ventures and reflect a responsibility to the dissemination of such projects.

Growing up around equipment and metalworking on a farm in northeast Missouri, Lisa R. Coons (b. 1979) acquired a special affinity to noise composition and found sounds. She studied composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City during her undergraduate degree and received her Master's from SUNY Stony Brook. Presently a PhD candidate at Princeton University, her portfolio includes music for acoustic and electronic instruments, turntables, traditional ensembles and welded percussion sculptures. She received an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award in 2005 for the string quartet Awkward Music and an Honorable Mention in 2009 for Cross-Sections, her electric guitar quartet. Recent commissions include works for The Machine Project for the Hammer Museum of Los Angeles, The New Music Collective of Charleston, Iktus Percussion Quartet, the Violin Futura Project, and Dither Electric Guitar Quartet.

Adam Fong (b. 1980) is a composer, performer, and producer of new music. A San Francisco Bay Area native, he holds master's degrees from both Stanford University (English) and California Institute of the Arts (Music Composition), where he studied with James Tenney. He has also studied composition with Christian Wolff and Wadada Leo Smith. He performs regularly in new music concerts and festivals. His own works have been performed internationally in Auckland, London, Berlin, Tübingen and Darmstadt, at many US universities, and throughout California, by performers including the two-piano team Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa. As Associate Director of Other Minds, Fong has since 2006 produced the annual Other Minds Festival, dubbed the "premier new music festival on the West Coast" (Los Angeles Times), and many special projects including the CD reissue of Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano, tribute concerts to Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell, and Dane Rudhyar, and the American Premiere of 18 Microtonal Ragas based on "Solo for Voice 58" by John Cage.

Denise Gilson is a composer and performer doing extensive work in new chamber music. Denise holds degrees from the University of Alabama and SUNY Stony Brook in composition, studying with her primary teachers, Harrison Birtwistle and Daria Semegen. Recent projects include a commission for the What A Neighborhood chamber music series and new pieces for Eric KM Clark and the Dither Electric Guitar Quartet.

Brent Miller (b. 1978) is a composer and a performer based in San Francisco, CA. He studied composition at the University of Arkansas with Robert Mueller (undergraduate) and University of Missouri-Kansas City with James Mobberley and Paul Rudy (masters). Recent projects include works for violinist Eric km Clark, Dither Electric Guitar Quartet, and the Navitas Ensemble. Brent is also active in the arts administration field running Rova:Arts, the organization that supports the Rova Saxophone Quartet. He also works with Other Minds, helping to produce the annual Other Minds Festival. Brent is a founding member of The Collected.