Goal Weight is the New York-based experimental, free improvising duo of two versatile and in- demand classical and new music musicians – double bass player Marguerite Cox and violinist (and journalist who contributed feature reporting and music criticism to the New York Times and The New Yorker) Jennifer Gersten, who began playing together in 2021 while both were quarantined at a celebrity yoga retreat in the Berkshires. Keep Telling Yourself That is the duo’s debut album, and it was recorded at Tidbit Sonos in Philadelphia in August 2025.
Cox and Gersten focus on spontaneous sonic collisions that propose idiosyncratic sounds from the double bass and the violin, exploring and expanding the sonic palettes of these string siblings. The album collects eight left-of-center improvised songs
