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What do we do when time ends? Tori Kudo and Sarah Hennies in conversation
This past May, Sarah Hennies and I sat on a rock near the Tivoli train tracks that overlooked the Hudson River, gushing in shared reverence over the great Japanese composer and ceramicist Tori Kudo and his enduring, happy accident-prone collective Maher Shalal Hash Baz. I was surprised that Sarah and Tori had never crossed paths,…
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There’s Something as the Air: Madison Greenstone and Weston Olencki in conversation
The clarinetist sits in a stackable chair on the chancel of a Queens church in winter. Eyes closed, cheeks puffed, instrument angled downward, knees straight, perfect posture, no wasted movement. Their deliberate de-emphasis on the “self” cuts a figure of someone with a heightened sensitivity of their body in space, but also a sacred ritual…
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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,…