This Saturday Brooklyn-based composer Kyle Bobby Dunn plays a free show at Park Slope's St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church with North Carolina's Phantom Fauna.

We asked Dunn a few questions about his music and the show. Check it out below, along with a video of him performing with a small ensemble at Brooklyn's First Presbyterian Church back in September.

You can also catch Kyle Bobby Dunn at Roulette on March 11 with Noveller's Sarah Lipstate, Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Seaven Teares.

Eardrum: You were born in Canada and have also lived in North Carolina and now New York. Have those environments shaped your music?

Kyle Bobby Dunn: Of course. Especially the odd differences and distances between them.

Did anything in particular bring you to New York? The rich history of music and composition? Something else?

Well its a nice big city and lots of people would like a chance to experience it, even if for only a weekend. I've had it for almost 4 years now. Lots of good food, culture, art, women. I came here for mixed reasons. One was getting accepted to the Pratt Institute for architecture. Which I didn't do.

You're performing at the St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Park Slope on March 5. How did you come across this space? Why did you choose it?

I live quite close to it and upon wandering around the quiet neighborhood one day I found it staring down at my pitiful ass. I was amazed by its sheer size and build. I think churches are an ideal space for my sound.

Back in September you played at the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Heights with a small ensemble. What sort of instrumentation will you have for the March 5 performance?

This will be simply guitar arrangements and some processors. Maybe a little organ.

It's hard to read much about your music without encountering terms like "drone" and "ambient" and "minimalist." What do you think of such classifications?

I find them quite silly. People probably don't even really listen to my music. They turn it on - think, "this is ambient minimalist drone" - and then cut it off and slap those labels on it. It's fine though, I don't like to work with those terms in my mind, but I have enjoyed other music in the past that has been classified in those genres before.

How would you describe your music?

Like a resurrection of sorts. A bit brooding and blissful at times. Quiet and spatial at others. I like to think that I work a lot with space and room in my music so this church almost works like an instrument.

What is your compositional process like?

Quite ridiculous and personal.

You have a piece, "Runge's Last Stand," coming out on Ghostly International's SMM: Context compilation. Could you describe that contribution and how it came about?

Jeff [Owens, label manager at Ghostly,] moved to Brooklyn a while ago - whom I met through the Moodgadget gatekeeper, Jakub [Alexander] - and we got hammered one night over Woodford Reserves. A few months, maybe a year passed and we ran into each other in Williamsburg of all places. He approached me in the street and asked me to contribute something to this. The song is about a very special person from my past and how we completely disappeared from each other.

Are there any contemporary composers, musicians or artists that you have been particularly into lately?

I like a lot of old soundtracks right now. Some of its very upbeat and samba jazz-like. But not a lot of contemporary or relatively new things I'm afraid. I checked out some of the composers on the SMM Compilation and it sounded nice. Especially my good (old) friend Peter Broderick who finishes it all off.

If you could stage a concert at any venue or location in New York, where would you perform?

Whoa nice question! New York is full of potentially awesome spaces and locations that could house a performance of epic proportions. Given the right setup and situation I think it'd be great to perform on some of the taller buildings in New York. My friend in Brooklyn used to have a great view from his roof but some monstrosities bombarded it. That or the hugest cathedrals in the city.

Anything else coming up that we should know about?

Already too much output coming from me in 2011. A new 40 minute vinyl LP release next month.