Tristan Honsinger

He is perhaps best known for his long-running collaboration with free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and guitarist Derek Bailey.

Born in Burlington, Vermont, United States, Honsinger was given music lessons from a very early age, as his mother had hopes of creating a chamber orchestra together with his brother and sister.

Honsinger experimented with a combo of three string-players (violin, cello, and double bass) and drums in 1991, under the name Fields in Miniature, and worked in other musical fields, including collaborations with UK post punk band The Pop Group in 1979, The Ex during the early 1990s, and the Ig Henneman Tentet.

According to Dutch Volkskrant journalist Erik van de Berg, "Honsinger is someone who hasn't lost his childhood fantasy entirely.

His compositions are like a child's drawing, or even more like a story from Winnie The Pooh: awkward and touchingly simple, yet full of deeper meanings for those who want to see them."