Ben Rempel

NEW RELEASE: Ben Rempel & Justin Gunter - Live in Prospect Park [SEA-041] Listen or download the full album on Bandcamp! Also available on transparent C-36 cassettes, limited to 25 copies 📼 _____________________ On a July day in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, percussionists Ben Rempel (LA) and Justin Gunter (NY) set up their drum kits for an all-day, outdoor recording session. Here, they arranged and improvised a series of hypnotic percussion duets, based on short polyrhythmic compositions by Rempel. Even without the confines of a studio, the duo managed to record the rich physicality of their drums in detailed high fidelity, capturing every transient and overtone. More importantly, they “embraced the blending of our music with the rhythms and sounds of the larger park environment”. The entrancing results feel both immersive and spacious; the sounds of wooden sticks hitting synthetic membranes form a rhythmic undercurrent, opening into a broader sonic space that includes the wind, birds, rustling trees, and the occasional siren. #percussion #improvisation #polyrhythms #polyrhythmic #improvisedmusic #percussionduo #cassette #tapelabel #fieldrecording #naturalrhythms #composition

with @yumasax and @elijahj.thomas last month! videos at

excerpt from my trio last night with @theothertimfeeney and @nicholspercussion for @dogstarorchestra !

Another house show at the Cascadilla Gorge Co-op 116 Oak Ave, Ithaca 5/23/26 7pm $10 Suggested donation @ben.remp & @j.goonter — on tour from LA / NYC, promoting their new double-percussionist album “Live in Prospect Park.” The music is a series of hypnotic duets, based on polyrhythmic compositions by Rempel, open to the sounds of the broader sonic space of the surrounding environments. 3 local solo acts opening: @whiskerhouseelectronics (Ole Matt) — American primitive guitar stylings @peachy_slender (Sh!) — live trumpet with electronics, perhaps a sesame-street-type beat @elaat_baak — 1 live & 13 pre-recorded melodicas retuned to just intonation: 107:100:93:86:79:72:65:58:51:44:37:30:23:16 Flyer by @sarlurob See you ther

* f u zz f e s t * || Small Scale Music || Mardi Spaghetti présentent: Ben Rempel (LA) :: percussions Justin Gunter (NY) :: percussions + :: Heavenly Metal :: Scott Thomson (trombone ténor) Jacques Gravel (trombone basse) Michel Bonneau (gong, métal, percussion) mardi 26 mai Studio D 5445 Av. de Gaspé, Unité 616 Portes 20h30 | Show 21h00 (heure exacte!) 15-20$NOTAFLOF (en argent, cartes et virement) les collations et les boissons sont les bienvenues (BYOB) Ben Rempel (Los Angeles) et Justin Gunter (New York) forment un duo de percussionnistes qui sort son premier album, « Live in Prospect Park » (2025, lien dans la bio), une série d'enregistrements improvisés en plein air sur des batteries, inspirés de courtes compositions polyrythmiques de Rempel. Heavenly Metal est un trio montréalais qui joue de la musique improvisée en utilisant uniquement des instruments métalliques: Michel Bonneau (gong, percussions métaux), Jacques Gravel (trombone basse) et Scott Thomson (trombone ténor). C'est la première fois qu'ils se réunissent pour jouer devant un public depuis 2022. Visuel de l’affiche :: Fahmid Nibesh Translation 🫶🏾 @smallscaleraph Venue 🫶🏾 @unasoledad

Mark your calendars, NYC! May 20, 8p @cutelab_nyc ! I am so excited for this Double-Duo-Bill! 🧬🧬 @ben.remp x @j.goonter // @j.tsang x @zoshazosha An evening of drums, metals, and strings! $15 NOTAFLOF dm for address (gowanus)

East Coast here we come!!! 5/16 Philadelphia @ secret location tba 5/17 Baltimore @ the four hour day lutherie 5/20 Brooklyn @ cutelab 5/22 New Haven @ the sand box 5/23 Ithaca @ dm for address 5/24 Toronto @ bickford park 5/26 Montreal @ studio d BIG thanks to @adzuki.studio for phenomenal tour poster!!! Hope to see you out there!! 😝

Baltimore! Sunday 5/17 at The Four Hour Day Lutherie we’re bringing you an evening of expansive music for percussion duo and accordion. 6:30 pm, 4305 Harford Rd. Justin Gunter (NYC) and Ben Rempel (LA) will improvise an experimental set of hypnotic percussion duets based on short polyrhythmic compositions. Their album “Live in Prospect Park” (2025) is available on Searching Records. simone baron (Baltimore) is an accordionist, pianist, composer, improviser, and instigator whose playing is known for its “gestural joie de vivre,” marked by “living, breathing vitality and exquisite nuance” (Washington Post).

Update! Antonin Fajt (@artifactsmilitia ) will be joining as well. The "you don't want to miss it" quotient has unquestionably increased. One thing I can tell you about this show is that it is guaranteed to go absolutely crazy, with percussionist Ben Rempel joined by saxophone players Yuma Uesaka and Elijah Thomas. Yuma is someone who seems to redefine sound every time I hear him perform, and there's no question that hearing Ben, Yuma, and Elijah play together will be an irresistible treat. Thursday, May 14 Doors 7:30; Music 8 $15 NOTAFLOF DM for address Artist info: Antonin Fajt is a pianist, composer, and electronic musician based in New York. His music spans the areas between folk music of Eastern Europe, contemporary classical music, minimalism, and jazz improvisation. Ben Rempel is a Los Angeles based percussionist, improviser, and composer whose practice spans experimental music, improvised music, western classical music, jazz, Brazilian music, songwriting, and more. Yuma Uesaka is a Japanese-American saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser, and composer based in New York City since 2014. His practice spans jazz, creative improvised music, and new music. Elijah J. Thomas (he/him/his) is a Black Philadelphia-born and Harlem, NYC-based flutist, multi-instrumentalist, educator and composer/experimentalist.

VOLITECHTONICS RETURNS! May 22nd @ The Sandbox 70 Audubon St. New Haven, CT Doors 5:30-6:20pm Music 6:30pm $15 Sugg. Donation All donations go to the artists ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ New England's premiere mixed genre improvised concert series Volitechtonics is BACK! Please join us on May 22nd in New Haven, CT for an evening of pulsing airwave delights at The Sandbox! There will be three incredible acts of improvised music shaking up downtown New Haven! ^^^^^^^^ABOUT THE ARTISTS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ben Rempel + Justin Gunter Celebrating the release of their recent album Live in Prospect Park, @ben.remp and @j.goonter will bring the heat with their hypnotic, fervent percussion duo as part of their east coast tour! Having met while in music school, they each bring many years of working in diverse musical styles to their collaboration, including free improvisation, minimalism, and more. Experience the coalescence of east and west as their minds meet in pulsing, churning rhythms! Michael Pestel + MJPIII Comprised of two weirdos who've lost their minds, the duo of @pestelmichael and @mjpiii.music makes its home in birds, nature, machinery, and built structures when improvising. These shared sensibilities generate something special when both artists strive to meet in the middle (-town and - sound)! As individuals and as a duo, they've shared their work internationally in collaboration with musicians, architects, computer scientists, orinthologists, and more. Lee Mixashawn Rozie @mixashawnrozie is a masterful storyteller whose sonic and maritime artwork has been experienced around the world. As an active participant in American art and creative music for over 40 years, they have recorded as a multi-instrumentalist with everyone from Bobby McFerrin to Ravi Coltrane. They have done extensive work in championing and sharing the Native American experience through music, sound, theater, and canoe design (to name a few)! Their solo set IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (Thanks to @fim_improvisation for lending their Sandbox parking graphic) #newhaven #music #experimentalmusic #improvisation #freejazz

It’s the beginning of outdoor season for the Ministry! Join us at the underpass of Bickford Park for a night full of blistering percussion and high-octane improvisation. Travelling from the states behind their debut album “Live at Prospect Park”, it was only fitting that we’d host the percussion duo of Ben Rempel & Justin Gunter at one of our favourite parks in town. Riffing off of composed rhythmic fragments, the duo seamlessly drifts into flowing complexities through their makeshift percussion kits. Also joining the evening are the interstellar giants Not the Wind, Not the Flag (Colin Fisher & Brandon Valdivia), as well as the drums + guitar duo Doug Tielli & Mike Gennaro, formerly of projects such as Wrist Error and Drumheller, reuniting with their blistering pace. Sounds beginning at 8:30pm, happening at the underpass at the North end of Bickford Park. Travel south down the steps from Bloor St and you won’t miss us. No doors in the outdoors, keep an eye out for the PWYC. Sunday, May 24th 8pm Bickford Park PWYC Poster by Doug Tielli

We are touring California! 3/28 San Diego @sound_praxis 3/29 Joshua Tree @theportaljoshuatree 3/31 Los Angeles @rasp.la 4/3 San Francisco @bricabracofsanfrancisco 4/4 Santa Cruz @ TBA