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Violist Amy Cimini and bassoonist Katherine Young have been performing together as Architeuthis Walks on Land since 2003. The duo developed its approach to improvisation in Chicago and New York City's rich experimental music communities, and have collaborated with artists like Anthony Braxton and the Tri-Centric Orchestra, Peter Evans, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jessica Pavone, and Hans Joachim Irmler from Faust. In 2011, Cimini and Young were each invited to the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music. Reviews of their second album, Natura Naturans released on Carrier Records in 2010, describe this intensity as "raw, yet refined improvisational sophistication" (Free Jazz Stef) and "manifest improvisational bravura, of the ruthless variety, depending on close intervallic buzzing, pipe-like droning and the rusty fencing of inhospitable harmonic territories." Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes). The duo recently completed two artist residencies at the Rensing Center for the Arts and EMPAC at Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, where they developed and recorded their third album. Cimini and Young have been evolving their live-electronics set-ups for a number of years - in this collaboration, as well as in other rock and experimental music projects such as Pretty Monsters, Starring, and Till by Turning. The Surveyors marks the first documentation of these efforts.