jo(h)n+aurora live @ ivy room

free improvisation recorded live at the ivy room, albany ca. on 01/25/10.
jon raskin: saxes
john shiurba: guitar
aurora josephson: voice
john hanes: drums
there's eight tracks here - hit the fast forward button to advance.

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.