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 features Bob Lukomski. Its a binaural recording made along the River to Ridge Trail in New Paltz, NY.
We made strange sounds, fairly quietly, outdoors using small amplifiers. You can hear the sounds of birds and the occasional vehicle in the background. The binaural mic was about five feet away from us.
Bob used a couple of granular synths (Sonicware and 1010Music) to live process what was happening around us, including the noises I made on my synthesizer (BugBrand WOM Pro into Korg NTS-3 Kaoss Pad).
I recommend listening to this one at a fairly low volume; try to blend it in with your environment for best effect. Its meant to be a sort of gentle noise percolating in the background…
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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 features two solo guitar performances from a night and day in Philadelphia.
The first was recorded on the evening of March 29, 2024 at the Rotunda as part of the Event Horizon series.
Then the next morning I performed at Thunderbird Hall as part of the Chilladelphia series.
Both performances were explorations on the language of sound…
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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 excerpts from four recent live collaborations.
It begins with a performance at XFest 2024 which features: Andrew Neumann (Buchla), Thomas Watkiss (bass) and Rachel Devora (french horn).
Next, some electronic sounds with Missing Channels, recorded at Quinn’s in Beacon, NY.
That’s followed by a performance with Irman at the Lace Mill in Kingston, NY.
And finally, a horizontal listening experience by Invisible Collage.
These performances are a good representation of the scope of the electronic improvised music I am making. One common factor of all four is the Meng Qi Wingie2 running the Blippoo Box firmware. Its a strange, chaotic instrument that I’m really enjoying.
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This month’s podcast is from a live performance with Space Biscuit (Matty Hutchins, aka DJ Buttermilk). We performed together for the first time in this configuration (me: guitar, Matty: synths) at Quinns in Beacon, NY where Matty runs a weekly electronic music series, Sleepwalking Through the Sun. Here you’ll hear some of the tastiest bits from that night.
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This month’s podcast gets quite experimental!
I’ve lately been listening to some early electronic music: I love the abstract nature and pure tones of the pre-synthesizer era. Also, I recently saw the film Forbidden Planet, and its amazing soundtrack inspired this podcast.
I recommend listening to this one in the dark and seeing where the sounds take you.
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