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Errant Space Podcast One Hundred

This month brings the 100th Errant Space podcast!!

To mark the occasion, I organized a live event featuring eight past podcast participants which took place on July 1, 2023 at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY.

photo: Sandy Santra

It was a three hour performance with the performers surrounding the audience, who were encouraged to listen while horizontal. The musicians played in rotating groups of three. This podcast is taken from that performance.

These are the musicians who participated in the experiment:

Al Margolis (piezo micro sounds)

Dean Sharp (processed percussives, samples)

Katie Down (glass and metal instruments, flutes)

Thom Uliasz (TV synthesizers)

Bonnie Kane (saxophone, flute, processing)

Sandy Santra (piano)

Neil Alexander (piano + processing)

Andy Rinehart (piano, accordion)

and me (Craig) (guitar, processing)

We had a fair number of audience members come through during the performance, you’ll hear people moving about on the recording. For best results, listen while laying down, it will almost be like you were there…

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Errant Space Podcast Ninety Seven – with Dean Sharp (drums!)

This month’s podcast is pretty special. It features Dean Sharp, who was the first collaborator on the podcast (#3), and who has made several appearances, but on all of those he focused on guitar. This time, he’s gone back to his roots and plays drums(!)

While I’ve dipped my toes into the water, with percussion(ists), this is the first time I’ve had a drummer, playing drum kit on the podcast, and our recording session was a bit of a breakthrough for me. As an ambient musician, I’ve always been somewhat drum-phobic, but Dean is a fantastic listener and has a good understanding of what I do and I think our collabo, while not strictly ambient, resulted in some beautiful improvisations.

Dean Sharp in action, at Quinn’s in Beacon, NY

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Errant Space Podcast #33 – 2017 Live Retrospective

This month’s podcast takes a look back at some of the past year’s live performances. I played with some great musicians in a variety of settings in 2017, and could probably fill several podcasts with those recordings. But here are four that represent the range of sonic experiences I had this year.

It starts with a solo performance at Beste Studios in October (thanks to Samantha Beste for the drawing at the top of this post!)

At around 11:17 there’s a duo performance with Dean Sharp on guitar, beats and loops, recorded at Newburgh Open Movement in August.

Then at 26:06 it’s a quartet performance with Al Margolis playing wind instruments, including alto clarinet, recorder and trumpet, Andy Rinehart on accordion, and Steve Roe on the Straddlevarious! This was recorded at a contact improvisation workshop in November.

Finally, at 42:57, a trio performance with the modular synthesizers of Art Labriola and Campfire’s Edge recorded at Quinn’s in August.

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Errant Space Podcast #23 – Newburgh Open Movement with Dean Sharp

This month’s podcast was recorded at a Newburgh Open Movement performance on New Years Eve 2016 and features the always inspiring Dean Sharp. This is Dean’s third appearance on the podcast (clearly I like playing with the guy!), each time has been in a different context.

And this podcast is also a little different, as the music was meant to provide an atmosphere in which people could move and dance, and our performance was a sort of collaboration with the movers and dancers.

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Errant Space Podcast #12 – Adventures In Electronic Music

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Here it is, the twelfth Errant Space Podcast! And we’re closing out the first year of podcasts with a real doozy! This one features TWO previous guests: Neil Alexander (ES podcast #8) and Dean Sharp (ES podcast #3). We recorded this one at Neil’s monthly Adventures In Electronic Music workshop at Space Create in Newburgh, NY on February 3, 2016. It was a fun evening with a Q&A about looping techniques and gear, followed by a couple of improvised pieces which are presented here as the first three-way collaborations on the Errant Space Podcast. Big thanks to Neil for inviting Dean and me to be part of the workshop. It was a real honor to play with both those guys and I think the end product is a rather fantastic sonic journey.

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Errant Space Podcast #3 – Errant Space vs Dean Sharp

A super-special treat this month!!

Multi-instrumentalist Dean Sharp, came down from Kingston to Rude Anagrams Studio to sit in as special guest on this months podcast. Dean, in addition to being a fantastic drummer, is a producer and soundscapist. He brought his guitar (and mando-guitar!) and a few effects over for a bit of a space out.

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The resulting podcast is my favorite yet! Its a bit more soundscape and a bit less ambient than usual, but I think its an amazing audio journey, and I hope you enjoy it.

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