Commissioned by D U C K R U B B E R (Cellist TJ Borden + electronicists James Bean and Paul Hembree), Duo for Actual and Human Cellos is a tribute to Charlotte Moorman, John Cage and Nam June Paik’s experiments with the instrument. One player wears a harness with rosened strings, holding them taut with extended arms while another player bows the strings. The two human cello players perform in consort with an actual cello/cellist, moving from unisons to counterpoint and imitation to shared playing across both instruments.