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Devin Hoff was born and raised in Fort Collins, Colorado. He began playing music seriously at age 15, and has continued to do so ever since, foregoing college as he was already working at his chosen craft. Torn between the visceral energies of punk and metal, the spiritual freedom of avant-garde jazz, and the deep emotional pull of folk music in his youth, he has spent the last 20-plus years exploring the resonances and dissonances of these musical tendencies. He has performed on hundreds of recordings and thousands of shows throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, with numerous musicians and bands. Some of those with whom he has collaborated include: Nels Cline, Vijay Iyer, Ken Vandermark, Matt Chamberlain, Carla Bozulich, Yoko Ono, Ben Goldberg, Joshua Redman, Mary Halvorson, Ron Miles, John Dieterich, Greg Saunier, Xiu Xiu, Kira Roessler, Mike Watt, Seven Year Rabbit Cycle, and Good For Cows (his long-standing duo with drummer Ches Smith).
 
As a song writer/”composer” he has written music for solo double bass, punk and metal bands (Teko Saso; The Gods Hate Kansas) avant-garde jazz ensembles (The Bastet; Ansible), chamber groups (Lost Songs of Lemuria; Redressers) and pop bands (Xiu Xiu; Love is the Law). He has composed and recorded material for several films and stage productions, including the award winning Wholphin-produced short film ‘Look at the Sun’, and the Anna Deveare-Smith play ‘Let Me Down Easy’ (in collaboration with Joshua Redman). He appears in the Farallon Productions film Approximately Nels Cline.
 
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