Recent Events...
Soundpaper, roll 4: Tree Waves released online
- released Sep. 21, 2023
- listen and buy on Bandcamp
A new roll of ambient music to live to, work to, walk to, etc! This one involves many slow overlapping waves of different lengths that constantly modulate the sound, creating a wind-in-the-leaves sort of wavescape. Timed for early autumn. Enjoy.
the beverage station: "one and one" released online
- released Sep. 1, 2023
- listen and buy on Bandcamp
Lainie Fefferman and I have started recording songs together
under the name "the beverage station." The first song, one and one is now out!
Beaver Point Hall, Salt Spring Island, BC
- July 14, 2023
- Doors 7:00pm |
- Salt Spring Island, B.C.
Two sets of electronic music exploring voice, audience-phones-as-instrument, and a controlled-feedback
instrument.
Lainie Fefferman will use a combination of
vocal processing and
networked sample triggering to create
jaunty grooves and ambient soundscapes that leave the listener woozy like the end of a five-course
rooftop meal.
I will play a set of controlled feedback using the sound of the room as a starting point to
launch into an atmospheric slow burn that sounds like a mini weather system.
Wayward Music Series, Seattle, WA
Three sets of electronic music exploring voice, audience-phones-as-instrument, controlled feedback, and
ambient space jams.
Lainie Fefferman will use a combination of
vocal processing and
networked sample triggering to create
jaunty grooves and ambient soundscapes that leave the listener woozy like the end of a five-course
rooftop meal.
I will play a set of controlled feedback using the sound of the room as a starting point to
launch into an atmospheric slow burn that sounds like a mini weather system.
Raica will have her modular synth called Bebe
play a generative
set of ambience and sound efx to drip in
and mellow to.
BounceBounce released online
- released May, 2023
- available for download on Bandcamp and streamable on
Spotify, Apple Music, and other places.
BounceBounce is a three track work distilled from a soundtrack to a dance performance I did
with the dance duo E/D in the winter of late 2016, and feels like a snapshot of the particular tenseness
of that time. There was a lot of high-intensity bouncing in the choreography, and I recorded a lot of
bouncing objects as source material for these tracks, using the rhythms to create time-warped
quasi-techno accompaniment. Also making an appearance: recordings of smashing glass, a road-sized
concrete saw, footsteps, and lots of fx.
Soundpaper, roll 3 released online
- released Jan. 4, 2023
- available for download (pay what you want) on Bandcamp
Soundpaper is my series for ambient music to live / work / exist to. This one
features two plucked voices in a pleasantly random wind-chime rhythm rippling out through delay lines
over a soft bed of chords and rainy traffic from outside my window.
Just in time for the end of the holidays, the return to work, and unseasonable mid-winter rain.
Soundpaper, roll 2 released online
- released Nov. 14, 2022
- available for download (pay what you want) on Bandcamp
Soundpaper is my series for ambient music to live / work / exist to. This one has a
bouncy energy to it, featuring four-part counterpoint that sounds like American minimalism squeezed
through a Nintendo Entertainment System, accompanied by rhythmic puffs of noise. I've enjoyed living
with it – maybe you will, too.
Flash Crash + Remixes released on Carrier Records
- since May 31st, 2022
- available for purchase on
Bandcamp
- streamable via most major platforms (look me up!)
Flash Crash was written for cellist Ashley Bathgate and accompanying electronics, featuring live and
pre-rendered synths and drum-machines sequenced off of recycled stock-market data from high-frequency
trading bots.
The recording comes out on Carrier
Records on May 31 and features remixes from five of my favorite electronic music
makers: Matthew D. Gantt, Lorna Dune, Lainie Fefferman, Angélica Negrón, and Vladislav Delay.
Unruly Sounds festival
- September 24, 2022
- 12pm-5pm
- Princeton Public Library square
- Princeton, NJ
I'll be playing a set of my "soft noise" music between sets at this annual festival of noisy and new
music held outdoors in Princeton, NJ. Read more about it here.
Sideband @ SUNY Stonybrook
Sideband, the laptop group I'm part of, will be presenting an evening of music as part of SUNY
Stonybrook's "Aural Architectures" series.
Outdoor screening of new video works with New Gallery Concerts
- July 16, 2022
- (rain date: July 23)
- Time TBA
- free outdoor screening
In February I presented two new pieces at an online concert which is being replayed as an outdoor
screening.
The first is a new audio/video piece "There's nothing here..." that uses pixel-level
animation
to
explore what happens when things are interpreted as other things.
Also being re-screened is my first video commission: a montage to accompany the recording of Aaron Jay
Myers's
piece
Paroxysm, made from hundreds of photos of NYC walls.
Carrier Records release party at Public Records!
Join me and several artists from the Flash Crash + Remixes album for a Sunday matinee of
electronic music in the gorgeous Sound Room at Public Records in Brooklyn.
On the bill will be: Ashley Bathgate playing Flash Crash itself, Angélica Negrón doing a
solo set of plant-and-vegetable-triggered synthy dream-pop, Matthew D. Gantt playing sample-heavy
beeps and boops with projected VR, Lainie Fefferman doing processed vocal sing-alongs to found
sound, and me playing a short ambient controlled-feedback set.
video accompaniment for Kathleen Supové's Sunday
Social
- Sunday, June 5, 2022
- 7:00pm
- Super Secret Arts
- 400 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY
- $30 / $15 / free (depending on membership)
Piano champion Kathleen Supové is presenting a program of works for
the Sunday Social series at Super Secret Arts. I'll be accompanying her set with
some live video projections.
Ultravulnerable, Act 2: Extra-Visible Activity
Ultravulnerable is a dance / words / visuals project by Erin Cairns Cella and Christopher Shepard. Part 1 of their three-part
project exists beautifully as an
Instagram document. Part 2 will be a semi-live performance over Zoom (follow project link for
the link to request access), for which I created some background synthesized sounds as an accompaniment.
- February 6, 2022
- 7:30pm EST
- online concert
- tickets $10
I'm presenting a new audio/video piece "There's nothing here..." that uses pixel-level
animation
to
explore what happens when things are interpreted as other things.
I'm also presenting my first video commission: a piece to accompany the recording of Aaron Jay Myers's
piece
Paroxysm, made from hundreds of photos of NYC walls.
I'm finishing up a video for my piece Flash Crash for cello-warrior Ashley Bathgate. This
festival will feature 30 pre-recorded performances from all kinds of amazing musicians, and is a great
way
to keep paying gigs alive for all involved.
new dance work: 8 minutes 17 seconds for Blue Ceiling Dance
- January 23 - 26, 2020
- 8pm EST (2:30pm for the 26th)
- The Theater Center
- 1115 Queen Street West
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I've contributed about 12 minutes of music for the evening-length piece by Lucy Rupert and Blue Ceiling Dance based on the
amount of time it takes light to travel to us from the Sun. Science, dance, and sound converge for an
evening of astrophysicality.
The Gaits: a participatory smart-phone sound-walk for Manhattan's High Line park
- Saturday, December 21, 2019
- 5pm EST
- the Gansavoort entrace to the High Line (south end, next to the Whitney)
- free!
The Gaits, year 8! Co-presented by Make
Music New York and
Mark your calendar and download the app for your Apple or Android phone.
new dance work with E/D: amplifying the nothing
E/D is the collaborative
alter-ego
of artists Erin Cairns Cella and Dages Juvelier Keates We're working on a new piece
for Triskelion that is going to be DEEPLY STRANGE.
After nearly a decade of collaboration, E/D's latest work amplifying the nothing finds
the duo in a
noxious all-inclusive getaway. Washed up and in a post-solar-storm, E/D inhabits a world without
truth. Stability is gone. Fear abounds. Utilizing ritual, repetition, game, E/D dangles in
obfuscatory oblivion. Floating within a hypnotic soundscore crafted by Jascha Narveson, E/D grapples
with being an "us" without a "them."
