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Will Yager is a bassist/improviser committed to experimental music, improvisation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and working with composers in the creation of new solo and chamber repertoire for the double bass. He has worked directly with composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, Miya Masaoka, Jean-François Charles, Mary Jane Leach, Michael Pisaro, and Amy Williams, and Sivan Cohen Elias among others. He is a founding member of the soprano/double bass duo LIGAMENT and improvising trio Wombat. Recent solo appearances include performances at the Nief-Norf Virtual Marathon, Oh My Ears Festival, Big Ears Festival, Feed Me Weird Things, New Music on the Point, Cortona Sessions for New Music, and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, where he was a Robert Black Double Bass Fellow. Yager has multiple recordings available on the Bandcamp platform, including irreducibility, a recording of recent works for solo double bass.