solstice overtone drone

my laptop set at polly moller's "long night's moon" concert at the luggage store gallery. the only sound sources were overtone-singing vocal samples of cary sheldon and an iphone recording of a small bell.
thanks to cary, polly, rent, c.j., matt, suki, michael, and amar.

skronkathon 09

steve adams and I debuted our lloopp duo at this year's skronkathon at 21 grand. many thanks to tom duff for organizing and recording.

prepared

john finkbeiner: prepared guitar
john hanes: prepared drums
recorded live in the green box (my tiny home studio) 05/04/09

macs'n'saxes

klaus filip and noid, the creators of lloopp, my sound mangling app of choice (free, open source, based on max-msp) were in town for the cycling'74 conference, and I helped get them a gig (4/20/09) at the luggage store gallery (thanks to rent romus for making it happen). they invited me to join them for a set and suggested i invite some non-laptop players to join us. i grabbed steve adams and philip greenlief. here's the result:

freedom music

john finkbeiner called me up last sunday and said, "would you like to come over to the studio tonight and play some freedom music?"
aaron bennett: sax and flute
aram shelton: bass clarinet ans sax
lisa mezzacappa: bass
john finkbeiner: guitar
john hanes: drums
recorded on my olympus ls-10 (warning: record level was a little high, there's some distortion)
freedom music part 2

part 3

part 4

part 5

assemblage

parts of various lloopp improvisations assembled in ableton live. I'm playing percussion, jen baker on trombone.

free improv mashup

the source material for this track is excerpts from a citta di vitti (see 10/19/08 post) live show (thanks to michael zelner for great live recording) and an improvised duet with john schott on guitar and me on lloopp. I dumped them into ableton and did a "slice to new midi track" and triggered that with midi game of life.
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