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The Shape of a Baguette Without the Substance of a Baguette: In conversation with Sarah Sarchin
Sarah Sarchin is a painter. She makes work that is satisfying and enticing. She is an exacting worker, a wizard whose skill is never at the forefront. Recently she has been making work that uses shapely legs, brick walls, and Brigitte Bardot to divine and play with the relationship between womanness and paint. That’s maybe…
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It’s magical that no one kills each other: In conversation with Bao Nguyen
Zoom conversation between Bao Nguyen and Jonathan Pfeffer that took place on September 26, 2023, edited and condensed for clarity. Bao Nguyen: When I first moved to the US during high school, I didn’t know how to drive a car so I would walk a lot and take the bus. With public transport, you walk…
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Everyone Loved It and They Took It Away from Us: Sarah Hennies on Conan O’Brien and the 2010 Tonight Show Conflict
Zoom conversation between Sarah Hennies and Jonathan Pfeffer that took place on July 17, 2023, edited and condensed for clarity. Sarah Hennies: I don’t know how other people my age feel, but I had a sense that Conan O’Brien was our guy. The kind of stuff he did on his show was surreal and stupid,…
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Wat Sun Meets Jerusalem Cricket
I’m pleased to share a digital 7″ I made with my friend Watson, bass clarinetist and band leader of The Great Blue Heron collective. Wats was trained by Marshall Allen from 2014-19 and has played with the Sun Ra Arkestra, William Parker, and Moor Mother. To my ears, our music sounds playful, urgent, and disorienting.…
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Jerusalem Cricket 001
Recordings of 4 short prepared guitar + mouth + soft synth assemblages I quickly made this past week somehow. RIYL eager awkward disjunctive clusters with no decay, abrupt pregnant pauses, flattened cardboard atmospheres, overthinking questions then blurting out the wrong answer, topography of the tide pods, broken glass in the bike lane, geiger counter funk,…