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Peyton Pleninger is an emerging tenor saxophonist, improviser, bandleader and conceptualist, forging a personal path that challenges the boundaries of what it means to be a musician. Pleninger’s experience involves a variety of disciplines centered around music, which also includes astrology, painting and sculpture, botany, construction, massage and medical inquiry.

Pleninger worked as a mentee of Milford Graves, from spring 2019 until Graves’ passing in early 2021, assisting daily in multi-disciplinary efforts. Summer 2019 focused on botany and garden work, which evolved into constructing a greenhouse in the winter that year. 2020 began with focus around conducting and documenting various scientific experiments around sound, vibration and cardiology, which led to constructing sculptures demonstrating some of the concepts discovered. Pleninger played an integral role in helping Graves prepare artwork and archival materials for his retrospective exhibit Milford Graves: A Mind Body Deal at the ICA Philadelphia, as well as for the post-humous exhibits Heart Harmonics: Sound, Energy and Natural Healing Phenomena at the Fridman Gallery and Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency at Artist's Space.

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w henry threadgill, roulette intermedium, brooklyn, 2022 photo by noah becker

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=UBUNTU=, brooklyn, 2021 photo by alison schuettinger

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w dan pappalardo, =UBUNTU=, brooklyn, 2021 photo by alison schuettinger

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biotonic, wilson live, brooklyn, new york, 2019 photo by tucker mitchell

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=UBUNTU=, brooklyn, new york, 2019 photo by alison schuettinger

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ix in art, thessaloniki, greece, 2019 photo by marco castelli

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rockwood music hall, new york, new york, 2019 photo by tucker mitchel

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michel maurer's meridian, rockwood music hall, new york, new york, 2019 photo by tucker mitchell

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roy ben yosef's moringa, kibbutz samar, israel, 2019

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kibbutz samar, israel, 2019

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biotonic site-specific recording, grace church haddonfield, nj, 2019 photo by joel gardella

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55 bar, new york, new york, 2017 photo by alfredo colon

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silvana, new york, new york, 2018 photo by joel gardella

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biotonic, silvana, new york, new york, 2018 photo by joel gardella

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glassbath, rockwood, new york, new york, 2018 photo by gaya feldheim schorr

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quinn bachand's brishen, CBC, vancouver, canada, 2017

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rochester jazz festival, rochester, new york, 2016 photo by peter parts