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Gabriel Saloman (GMS; Gabriel Saloman Mindel, Sade Sade) is a musician, composer, improviser and sound artist living and working in Minneapolis, MN.
As a soloist, Saloman has spent two decades touring internationally and has released recordings with Beacon Sound, Infinite Greyscale, Miasmah Recordings, and Shelter Press.
As a part of the experimental music group Yellow Swans with Pete Swanson he has released well over 50 recordings. Together they have performed at numerous international music festivals including Sonar (ES), Open Circuit (BE), and Sonic Protest (FR), and were invited to join Art Council England’s Free Noise Tour in 2007. After a lengthy hiatus they have returned to recording and performing.
He is currently working with transmission artist Anna Friz on Between the Fires, a project that engages the aftermath of wildfires in Northern California through phonography and improvisation.
He has also been involved in various duos and ensembles including Neẓuẓot with hurdy-gurdy player KM Walker, the Portland based free-funk collective Cexfucx, Chambers with producer Michael Red (Lighta!, Low Indigo) and Diadem with Aja Bond. In addition, Saloman has played in collaboration with Peter Broderick, Common Eider King Eider, Sissy Spacek, Empty Love, In Flux, Boxleitner, Bleeder, and the Free Noise touring ensemble which included Evan Parker, Spencer Yeh, John Wiese, John Edwards, MV Carbon and Jenny Graf.
Saloman has regularly composed music for contemporary dance and has been commissioned by choreographers including Action at a Distance, The Contingency Plan, Company 605, Daisy Karen Thompson, and Robert Kitsos.