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Nelson-Raney’s current work includes continuation of ongoing improvisations for saxophone and piano, composition in various mediums and collaborations with other musicians, writers and visual artists (two notable collaborative performances have been with writers Anne Waldman and Tom Raworth).
Nelson-Raney performs regularly as saxophonist in the free improvisation trio Audiotrope, in a duo with percussionist Jon Mueller, as well as in a wide variety of other contexts in the Milwaukee area.
Nelson-Raney’s writing has been published in two Midwestern anthologies, Poetry Is For People and Poetry Out Of Wisconsin, in Intervals, an anthology of writings by musicians, and in various magazines, such as traverse, Gam and Fell Swoop.