Updates
Activator Trio is the brainchild of Brooklyn, NY-based guitarist and composer Ben Tyree. Formed in 2018 as an extension of his critically-acclaimed BT3, the project features fellow Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber alumni.
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Percussionist Sameer Gupta and guitarist Ben Tyree to release their second collaboration, Catalytic, on December 6, 2022 via Sonic Architectures.
Conversations seeking to humanize and illuminate the struggles and triumphs of musicians and other creatives.
For many creative professionals, especially those in the performing arts, this precarious and unprecedented time may feel like a never-ending bad dream…
This EP is a fascinating snapshot of a group of musicians figuring out where their influences made sense together, in a space where all the possibilities seemed endless. It's as simple as a guitarist and a lyricist repeatedly asking each other "what if?" and following that question to a novel result over and over again.
In a time of societal upheaval caused by a global health crisis and an international anti-racism uprising, there’s an increasingly urgent call for co-creating new visions for what the world could look like post-pandemic. Guitarist Ben Tyree and drummer/percussionist Sameer Gupta heard that call and answered…
In this tough and uncertain health and economic crisis for us all, I am dropping a line to inform all of you that I will be moving all operations online. All gigs have been CANCELLED and will hopefully be rescheduled. We are advised to practice social distancing making gatherings and even one on one meetings potentially risky.