Brendan Carn is a contrabassist, improviser, composer, and educator. Through the study of improvisation, linguistics, and human cognition, he is attempting to understand and manipulate our innate tendency toward order, repetition, and expectation. This study includes solo and ensemble performance and recording, site-specific installation, research, and education. When not making sounds, Brendan also enjoys cledonism, amphilogism, circumlocution, and sesquipedalian excess. Brendan holds a B.F.A. in Contemporary Music from the College of Santa Fe, and an M.F.A. in Jazz Studies from the California Institute of the Arts.