Audio Documentation
(Imitative to music, except that it can be repeated, amplified, archived, etc.)
july 14, 2008: with fred lonberg holm at myopic
july 4, 2008: field recording of fireworks at the lakefront in uptown
june 21, 2008: hotti biscotti with andrew scott young, mike forbes, brennan connors
june 16, 2008: brown rice with the chicago phonographers
2008/05/15 I am now a sound artist and my music can only be heard in person henceforth. However, you can support me by purchasing this shoddy audio documentation. If you buy any mp3s and desire higher quality formats, I will be happy to send them along later free of charge, but please never mistake them for actual music; never adjust the volume once it has been set, never listen to them more than once, and never consider them as you would a property or product.
april 28, 2008: myopic bookstore with aaron zarzutzki and kevin davis
april 10, 2008: field recording of wind whistling
april 6, 2008: archived recording of radio show framework featuring my field recordings
march 21, 2008: with gust burns: Set 1 and 2 (streaming audio, .m3u)
march 16, 2008: gust burns, joel pickard, jack wright, fabrizio spera at gallery 1412
january 12, 2008: fundraiser for gallery 1412
january 5, 2008: wally shoup, sax: ed petry, guitar.
1/1/8 You will notice that I do not have many new music links. These links all connect to recordings of music, and the more I consider it, I have to conclude that audio documents are bad for my art. They are pale shadows which completely miss the real art of music, and distract from music's value as an impermanent moment in time, a change of energy. I have to wonder about whether music should be recorded at all. I think we've lost something crucial. There is no energy transfer, and for thousands of years, music was ephemeral, meant to happen in a single place and moment. We musicians relinquish some of the elemental components of our art form when we package it. Perhaps recording quality should get worse, not better. Most people have forgotten that those reproductions are a pale shadow of the real thing. I went to an art gallery today, and every piece was a "video documentation of performance art". I found this personally embarrassing; I have been trapped by the limitations of my language into referring to inanimate objects as music, when they are only documentation.
november 17, 2007: field recording of power lines in a state park in Gold Bar, Washington.
november 12, 2007: guitarist ed petry
october 9, 2007: set with jeb bishop and jason roebke
october 7, 2007: chicago cultural center musicircus
october 5, 2007: Heaven gallery with aaron zarzutzki, birgit ulher, and eric leonardson. (This concert was released on Modisti Netlabel)
october 4, 2007: sonic inertia performance group fundraiser
september 21, 2007: the last florida concert at transitions gallery
new album with aaron zarzutzki: "furniture songs"
august 23 2007 venice florida: 3P1 L3P T1C F1T, jijimuge, aaron zarzutzki, kristin calvarese
august 18, 2007 amp'theater in tampa: the uh. . ., chiari network
july 20, 2007 at stardust cafe in orlando
july 18, 2007 performance of darts and arrows at the velvet lounge
july 17, 2007 improvisations with kevin davis and nick broste
june 9, 2007 tampa noise fest solo performance
improvised compositions with guitarist cliff ingram
san juan noise fest II 2006-12-30 Cubo 1504
chicago calling festival performance with fred anderson, mars williams, jim baker, and josh abrams
tiziano tononi and daniele cavallanti of italian instabile orchestra
sonic impact at the museum of contemporary art; new music chicago
radio appearance: Something Else 2005-11-06
trans-siberian radio project (50MB)
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