Caroline Kraabel
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Caroline Kraabel is a London-based American composer, improviser, and saxophonist. She is known for her research into the implications of electricity related to recording, synthesis and amplification.
A native of Seattle, Kraabel moved to London while in her teenage years, at the end of the punk era. There she took up the saxophone and became active in London's improvised music scene, eventually developing a style based on the physicality of the instrument, extended techniques and acoustics. She has performed solo and collaborated with Rhino Edwards, Veryan Weston, Charlotte Hug, Maggie Nichols, Phil Hargreaves, and the London Improvisors Orchestra among others. She has also organized and conducted pieces for Mass Producers—a 20-piece, all-female saxophone/voice orchestra and for Saxophone Experimentals in Space—a 55-piece group of young saxophonists, as well as with her two children walking through the streets of London.
Recordings include Transitions with Maggie Nichols and Charlotte Hug, Five Shadows with Veryan Weston, Performances for Large Saxophone Ensemble 1 and 2 and Performances for Large Saxophone Ensemble 3 and 4 with Mass Producers and a solo work Now We Are One Two.
Caroline Kraabel hosts a weekly radio show on London’s Resonance FM and is the editor for the London Musicians Collective's magazine Resonance.
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