Recordings & Videos
Tara Khozein & Gabriel Zucker: Americans Who Love Playing Improvised Music in Budapest
This footage is an edited document of Tara & Gabriel’s concert on 26 September 2025 at Lumen Café.
Tara Khozein - vocals
Gabriel Zucker - synth, piano, vocals
Dávid Tamás Pap - recording, mixing & mastering, cover photo, artwork & series production
Récitation 11, Georges Aperghis
This is an excerpt from a program at Taos Chamber Music Group, curated by Chatter. It took place on January 11, 2025.
in the middle, Tara Khozein
This is an original work for solo voice grown from a poem by Kimberly Belflower.
Composed in 2019 & Recorded in 2025
Socrate, Erik Satie
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Portrait de Socrate ("Portrait of Socrates")
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Les bords de l'Ilissus ("The banks of the Ilissus")
Tara Khozein, soprano
Judith Gordon, piano
This is an excerpt from a program at Taos Chamber Music Group, curated by Chatter. It took place on January 11, 2025.
Kat and the Devil: Satyre
This is the first half of a fully-improvised concert at Jedermann Budapest making use of the lightly-edited first chapter of The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers. The concert took place on March 26th, 2025.
Tara Khozein (text & vocals)
Oli Mayne (vibes)
Ernő Hock (double bass)
Szilveszter Miklós (drums)
Video Documentation: Daniel Sipos
Concert curator: Gábor Boskovics
Tara Khozein & Thea Soti: Live at Lumen
This is a selection of pieces from a fully improvised concert on "Free the Music" series in 2023. This recording is also available as an online album as the 14th part of Prepost Records' "Prepost Pirate Live Series".
Tara Khozein, voice
Thea Soti, voice & electronics
Audio & video recording mixed, edited & mastered by Dávid Tamás Pap.
SoundFishing
This is an excerpt from SoundFishing, a voyeuristic public space concert for Budapest-based improvising musicians. It was co-directed by myself and Martin Boross in 2024, and was produced by the Stereo Akt theater company.
More information about the show can be found here.
The performer-creators are:
Samu Gryllus, bass
Tara Khozein, voice
Katalin Ladik, voice
Rozi Máko, electronics
Áron Porteleki, percussion
Voland Székely, percussion
Kat & the Devil: Cats, Witches, Devils
Kat and the Devil is a quintet of improvising classical and jazz musicians where I sing and speak using prewritten texts based around an author or theme. Our performances are often funny, melodic, pan-idiomatic, surprising, and theatrical. Our previous programs include Witches, Basho, James Joyce, Hallucinogens, communing with the dead, and Architecture. Our first project (and our namesake) comes from James Joyce's short story "The Cat and the Devil". Here are some excerpts from our first performance as a quintet in 2023.
Tara Khozein, voice
Albert Márkos, cello
Oliver Mayne, vibraphone
Ernő Hock, double bass
Szilveszter Miklos, drums
ONCE WITHIN A TIME
Celebrated director Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) returns after ten years with a new experimental film unlike any other from his already daring career: a bardic fairy tale about the end of the world and the beginning of a new one, tinged with apocalyptic comedy, rapturous cinematography, unforgettable vistas, and the innocence and hopes of a new generation. Featuring an original score by Philip Glass and Sussan Deyhin with additional vocals by Tara Khozein, edited by Jon Kane, and executive produced by Steven Soderbergh and Alexander Rodnyansky in 2022.
KHHH
An ad hoc quartet plays fully improvised music. This is the full performance, recorded live at Budapest's Lumen Cafe on April 26th, 2022.
Tara Khozein - vocals
Péter Hárságyi - drums
Ernő Hock - bass
Nándor Hevesi - guitar, synth
Audio & video recording, mixing, editing & series production - Dávid Tamás Pap
PAP Prepost Records / Monkey Business Productions
Iterations
Iterations is the (mostly) unedited documentation of a single session of duets of Carlos Santistevan (upright bass) and Tara Khozein (voice) recorded on Friday June 25th, 2021, in Santa Fe, NM. We made these sounds, thinking very often of our common friend and mentor, J.A. "Dino" Deane, who took his final exit shortly after we made this recording. 2 humans, 2 microphones, 1 instrument, 1 voice. 16 Iterations.
she is patient or panning for gold
This is the video documentation of a Voice-Theatre work created for Holly Grimm’s Aikphrasis in 2021. The work is a response to a poetic text, which artist Holly Grimm created, using an AI text-generator.
The Tara & Rhonda Show
This is the video documentation of two years of text-based scores written by and for the Tara & Rhonda Show with Rhonda Taylor (saxophones) and Tara Khozein (voices) in 2017 & 2018.
Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return
These are works created for use in Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return, in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2016. I provided the vocal recordings. I am not credited as an artist on Meow Wolf's website, and they instead credit me as a "volunteer" even though I was an employee. This might be because I was part of a class action law suit against them in 2019, where 3 other people and I sued them for unfair termination and discriminatory practices. Here are two pieces that I still like, and that I still feel proud of, along with much of the other work I did while I worked there.
Beamspace Finale feat. Tara KhozeinMI & Kevin Zoernig
Beamspace Ambient feat. Tara KhozeinMi & Kevin Zoernig
Garden Project, Chris Jonas
Garden is Chris Jonas' three chapter series of live music-driven intermedia performance/installations developed over 5 years that use linear-immersive media (live music, installation, transparent screens and projected video) to explore expressive, atmospheric, metaphoric, psychological and cross-cultural realms of place, night time and the intersection of the human and natural environment. This event took place in Santa Fe, NM in 2015.
*No vocal sounds were notated for the two vocalists, although formal and aesthetic instructions were provided by Jonas.
