This month’s podcast features the electronic tonalities of Modular Moose.
My friend the Moose was in the area for the summer doing an internship, so we had the opportunity to record, play some shows and see some music. This podcast explores some rich drone textures and gets v e r y s p a c e y.
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This month’s podcast is a study in contrasts. It features two recent performances, one outdoors during the day, the other indoors at night.
The first part was at Great (Big) Pond, organized by the good folks at Stretch Metal. As the name implies it took place by a pond on a pleasant Sunday afternoon in June. I played baritone guitar, and incorporated field recordings of nature and the underwater sounds of ponds.
The second part was recorded in the evening at the Lace Mill in Kingston, NY. Its all synthesizers and electronics, representative of the dronier side of my sonic explorations.
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This month’s podcast is a behind the scenes peek into how I prepare for a show.
For a solo electronic performance I need to devise a system to improvise with that will produce (manageable?) unexpected results that I can respond to. (When improvising with other musicians, this takes care of itself.) In this case I had in mind creating a fairly minimal, droney, textural soundscape so used the Strega, which is excellent for drones and the Wingie2/Blippoo Box which is a great source of randomness. I also incorporated some field recordings for additional texture (played on a Kaoss pad), and harmonica to add an element of breath. Everything could be sent to an Eccos delay in sound on sound mode via an effects send to create slowly evolving/dissolving loops.
There are three improvisations presented here, the first two are me exploring strategies for the performance in my studio and the third is the final live performance recorded at Greenkill in Kingston, NY on January 13, 2025.
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This month’s podcast features recordings from my recent trip to Portugal where I met some amazing improvising experimental musicians.
It starts with a collaborative performance with António Caramelo at Darc Desterro that was organized by the good folks at Russian Library.
That’s followed by recording from a visit to the studio of Adriana Sá who played her custom zither. We were joined by her student Gabriel Worm on acoustic bass guitar.
Finally there’s a sort of hybrid field recording I made on the Alfa Pendular train; I improvised to the sounds of the train and passengers on the trip from Porto to Lisbon.
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This month’s podcast features experimental musician Mathieu Sylvestre from Berlin.
My first meeting with Mathieu was recording for this podcast. I really enjoy getting to know someone by making music together and our collaboration turned out to be quite interesting. I play guitar for part of it and then switch to electronics. Mathieu works with looping, spectral processing, noise and field recordings, creating amazing textures. Right after recording for this podcast, we embarked on a 5 day tour in the Northeastern U.S.
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This month’s podcast features the Multiphonic guitar of Ben Miller.
Ben was in the area on tour and came by the studio for a quick session, we got some good stuff; lots of nice textures!!
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This month we’re heading outdoors to explore the secret sounds of ponds with David Rothenberg.
This was a fun adventure! I packed up a battery powered synth (softpop) and amp, and my binaural mic and hiked out to Hidden Lake in Putnam County, NY with David who brought a hydrophone and some speakers along with his clarinet and iPad.
We made some sounds inspired by what was happening below the surface*. The results are strange and surprising!
*Mostly plants photosynthesizing and an insect called the lesser water boatman. (Check out David’s book to learn more.)
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This month’s podcast features three performances from a November 2023 tour with Duo Denum (Al Margolis and Tom Law).
The first is a solo performance in a church in Columbus, Ohio. It dissolves into drone.
The second is a duo performance with Tom Law (viol da gamba and laptop) recorded in Philadelphia.
The final piece is a quartet with Duo Denum and J.S. Wang recorded at a house concert in Toledo, Ohio.
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This month’s podcast features three live recordings from 2023, all of which include either bowed, or circuit bent instruments.
It begins with a performance with conceptual cellist Irman (who also contributes some keyboard) which was recorded at Telephone in Pittsburgh, PA.
Then, there’s a recording from drone day 2023 featuring Tamalyn Miller on horse hair fiddle and Thom Uliaz (burnkit2600) on circuit bent electronics.
Finally there is a very quiet performance that took place across a table next to the kitchen in a civil war era boarding house at XFest 2023 in New Hampshire. This one features the circuit bent Casio MT-240 of Cryptwarblr and I am playing a Bastl SoftPop. Both of us are using the instruments internal speakers.
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This month’s podcast is a haunting soundscape suitable for your halloweening needs.
It features some old Casios (MT-68, SK-1, CZ-101) along with some more modern synthesizers (Strega, Soft Pop, Cloudbusting) and guitar.
Beware! Its scary stuff*, be sure to have some extra pants nearby…
*mildly scary.
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