Composer and saxophonist patrick brennan has pursued a contrarian and independent musical path for over 3 decades in pursuit of those yet unheard somethings just around the corner. He's collaborated and recorded with Gnawa musicians in Moroccco and has recorded numerous albums of his own original music.

Transparencies are an organizational strategy that overlays rhythmelodic patterns that can be recombined in a decentralized way though improvisation and conduction.  transparency kestra is a rotating community of musicians, a polyrhythmic drum ensemble (with or without drums) & an engine of multidirectional musical exploration.

Participants include:

patrick brennan - alto saxophone; Haruna Fukazawa - flute & piccolo; Patrick Holmes - clarinet; Josh Sinton - bass clarinet; Eli Asher, Brian Groder, Thomas Heberer, Ryan Messina, Aaron Shraage - trumpet; Westbrook Johnson - trombone; Leonor Falcon, Jason Kao Hwang, Annemarie Wiesner - violin; Stephanie Griffin - viola; Jerome Harris, Akira Ishiguru, David Sidman, Harvey Valdes - guitar; Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic, Ken Filiano, Hilliard Greene - bass viol; Jerome Harris - acoustic bass guitar; Rod Williams - piano; Brian Adler, Carter Bales, Andrew Drury, Lloyd Haber, Hollis Headrick, Colin Hinton, Sam Parsons, Warren Smith - percussion (exact personnel varies by performance)