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Jonathan Pfeffer & Drew Erin Adams Play the Broken Harpsichord
Drew sent me an unedited recording he made of an improvisation with a broken harpsichord that he’d inherited from some Santa Cruz nuns. The harpsichord may or may not have been taken to the Buena Vista Landfill west of Watsonville. I strung together my favorite bits of the recording then added prepared classical guitar, Axoplasm,…
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Ben Bennett’s “Music for Idiophones, Vol. 1”
“Music for Idiophones, Vol. 1” is solitary music in that it seems to have materialized from the same kind of solitude that desert plants and idiorrhythmic monks know. These 10 tunes are amoral, uncivilized dialogues with the metaphysical absolute that suggest non-human persons simply being and breathing, made from objects that signify civilization at its…
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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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USA Clangers Live at the Red Room in Baltimore, November 8th 2022
This one goes out to all the Americans out there that are of course celebrating their very American 4th of July and what better way to celebrate than with the USA Clangers. The USA Clangers is a group playing new and old material by Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson (aka me) but with an all-star lineup of…
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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,…