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Spooky Actions was recently "Artist in Residence" at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The ensemble worked with students demonstrating their approach to integrating improvisation with contemporary classical repertoire. This approach provides a bridge for classically trained musicians who wish to improvise with a musical vocabulary that is more familiar then blues or bebop for example. Likewise, jazz musicians can greatly expand their own vocabulary by playing and incorporating music by Messiaen, Schonberg, Webern, and other masters of contemporary music.

"They address Webern's music on its own terms and shed new light on its strange beauty...Spooky Actions has given jazz fans a great way to enter his world."
Andrew Lindemann Malone Jazz Times April 2004