Episode 124
Armies of collapse and control.
[for electric guitar, piano & acoustic guitar]
Episode 123
Armies of soft derangement.
[for dvina, cello, electric guitar, pressure0Oo]
Episode 122
Studies in pressure. [for electric guitar, synth]
Episide 121
The Sulfide series. [For electric guitar, cello]
episode 120
“Asakusa” is a response to my first visit to Japan in February of 2023, staying in the Asakusa neighborhood of Tokyo, with its river and elevated highway and frenetically busy temple. I don’t know why I chose Asakusa for my first visit, but then again, why not? Knowing nothing about the layout of Tokyo, it made as much sense as anything for a place to start. The piece is composed first from field recordings from the area, arranged to form a narrative structure, then layered with acoustic/electric guitar and noise from a Landscape Stereo Fields device. Given that the base layer of field recordings is in discrete movements, the more conventionally musical elements follow this, making the piece more a suite of short chapters that form a whole than a single, durational piece, as I’m more typically prone toward. It captures, I think, some of the chilly brightness of late winter in that part of the city, heard through the naiveté of an enthusiastic, if somewhat exhausted, first-time visitor.
Episode 119
Fuck you. Then fuck you twice. Then fuck you sideways and twice.
—For Mars, Venus, and Pluto conjunct in Aquarius
Episode 118
The several-times silence (out) of need and remembrance.
Episode 117
I like the idea that people are a story.
Episode 116
This really is the better thing, isn’t it? To not have any mind.
Dear of Friend Pike (the Satyr)
Episode 115
Among? Or first, you see: a-mong. He will go a-mong them.