I collaborated with Brian Trump recently on a submission for the Trans-Siberian Radio.org Project. Click here for its website:
Joshua Manchester and Brian Trump are Chicago musicians. This music is an improvisation of drum set, guitar, synthesizer and midi accompaniment, and serves some of the themes of permanently temporary war: The vagaries of a brutal conflict, the hypocrisy of its leaders, and the cloak of rhetoric and lies used to motivate its unwitting combatants.
The Trans-Siberian Radio Project has taken radio out of the transmitter tower
and made it mobile. The waves sent forth therefore illumine a constantly evolving
landscape. To expound on this innovation, Brian enabled and disabled the 5 microphones
that were around the recording room in post-production to explore the possibilities
of the performance space. As a result, the focus of the piece is on the reproduction
of the space as much as on the dynamic shifts and rhythmic interplay. On the
train, the passenger and radio wave continuum are static as their landscape
rapidly shifts around them; Just so, during our piece, listen for the effect
of being shifted throughout the room as you hear the ambient landscape from
every angle.