The Tri-Centric Foundation is a non-profit organization which supports the work and legacy of American composer and musician Anthony Braxton. Our primary activities are preservation and dissemination of his scores, recordings, and writings, production of performances, and pedagogy.

Tri-Centric maintains Anthony Braxton's massive and growing archive which includes roughly 33,000 pieces of print material in the form of over 400 scores and parts, various writings, cassettes, videos, and ephemera. In recognition of our efforts, we received the support of the GRAMMY Museum® Grant Program in 2018 and the CLIR Recordings At Risk grant in 2019.

The term “Tri-Centric” derives from Braxton’s three-volume collection of philosophical investigations, The Tri-Axium Writings. Braxton believes creative thinking cannot be reduced to dichotomies, but must embrace multiple perspectives. For instance, music is not only composed or improvised, but also includes intuition. We must not only consider the past and the present, but also the future. It is not always this or that, it is often the other.

Board & Staff

Artistic Director: Anthony Braxton (Middletown, CT)

Staff:
Archives Manager: Carl Testa (New Haven, CT)

Board:
James Fei (Oakland, CA), president
Chris Jonas (Santa Fe, NM), vice president
Jonathan Piper (Queens, NY), secretary
Jean Cook (Brooklyn, NY), treasurer