Charlie Looker

Looker is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where he studied with Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier.^[5]

Alongside his work as a solo artist,^[2] Looker also leads an Early/Renaissance-music inspired project, Seaven Teares;^[6] performs improvised "death-jazz" with Period, whose rotating cast includes Darius Jones, Chuck Bettis, and Mike Pride;^[7] played in Sculptress, a duo with Chuck Stern;^[8] and leads the industrial-metal duo Psalm Zero, formerly alongside Castevet's Andrew Hock.^[9] He is the songwriter, guitarist, and lead vocalist for avant-rock band Extra Life^[10] and a former member and co-founder of avant-garde band Zs.^[11] He worked with Dirty Projectors and appears on their record Rise Above.^[12] Other collaborators include M Lamar,^[13] Mariel Roberts, Ty Braxton,^[14] Mary Halvorson, Mick Barr, Tim Berne, Nat Baldwin,^[15] Earle Brown, Sam Mickens, Kelly Moran, Dax Riggs, Lingua Ignota,^[16] Matthew Welch,^[17] Stu Watson, William Parker,^[18] and Glenn Branca.

He founded Last Things Records, a label that has released recordings by Extra Life, Larkin Grimm, Parenthetical Girls, Psalm Zero, and Sculptress.

In 2011, Looker was named one of NPR Music's "Top 100 Composers Under 40".^[19]