Black Spirituals Performance | Resonance | Exploratorium

The second season of Resonance kicks off with Oakland-based sound-making duo Black Spirituals. Their music is an ecstatic intersection of the tone-generating electronics and guitars of Zachary James Watkins, and the heart-thumping acoustic percussion of Marshall Trammell. Watkins and Trammel create improvisational compositions on stage, exchanging ideas through an ever-evolving dialogue between their individual musical narratives. “Our music is an empathic machine,” Trammell says. Their sound has been des