Breath & Hammer

They began by creating their unique electro-acoustic show Breath & Hammer with live video feed, following that with a fully immersive audio-visual surround-sound concert/art installation experience titled The Ties That Bind Us with video designer Jesse Gilbert for the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. Their unique programs live at the intersection of classical, world music and jazz, and often incorporate loops, samples, sound design and visual elements. Recent co-composed works include an evening-length collaborative work called Keepers of The Flame with musicians from Syria, Ukraine and Poland which was commissioned by the Center for International Dialogue at the Borderlands Foundation in Poland, as well as a Klezmer Fantasy for concert wind band written for the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Krakauer & Tagg are thrilled to be further expanding their creative boundaries by co-composing a clarinet concerto to be premiered in 2021 by the Santa Rosa Symphony and conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong. The score for Minyan by filmmaker Eric Steel, which Krakauer & Tagg not only co-wrote but also performed and produced, premiered at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival and is their first feature film project.