Last month Marie-France Hollier and I performed Alvin Lucier's Criss-Cross at send+receive festival. It was an incredibly challenging piece to perform, but very rewarding. Video below shot by Robert Szkolnicki.
Extra thanks to Oren Ambarchi for taking the time to teach this piece to us and overseeing our rehearsals.
I'm beyond honoured to have been asked to perform Alvin Lucier's Criss-Cross at send+receive festival in Winnipeg this year.
Criss-Cross is written for two electric guitars and was written specifically for Oren Ambarchi and Stephen O'Malley.
Marie-France Hollier and I will perform this piece on Thursday, Oct. 13th, at the Asper Theatre Centre at the University of Winnipeg. Kevin Drumm is headlining.
I played two shows in two days last weekend with some fantastic artists. Terrific crowds at both events. Below is an excerpt from my set at aceart. Video courtesy of Robert Szkolnicki.
Spare time is pretty short at the moment, so I'm not able to write about the albums that I really enjoyed this year in the way I'd like, so I'm opting for just a simple list. These are in no particular order.
High Aura'd/Mike Shiflet - Awake Prurient - frozen Niagara Falls crys cole - sand/lanya Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year With 13 Moons Disappears - Irreal Carly Rae Jepson - Emotion KEN mode - Success Helm - Olympic Mess Sarah davachi - Baron's Court Locrian - Infinite Dissolution Low - Ones and Sixes Battles - La Di Da Di Joda clement - hope you like the universe Chambers - Sigma Flare 1 Jesse Osborne-Lanthier (Noir) & Robert Lippock - Timeline Volahn - Aq'Ab'Al Oren Ambarchi - Sleepwalker's Conviction Favourite Shows: Thomas Brinkmann - send+receive Will Guthrie - send+receive HEALTH - nxne
I'm very excited to announce the release of my new album, The Sound The Sky Makes. The album is being released through Bonzer Records on cassette and digital download.
Right now, you can stream the album at Bonzer's Bandcamp page. Cassettes are delayed, so stay tuned for that, but they will be available from the label, myself, and likely so US distros as well. Official release show in early 2016.
I just finished a short session at Private Ear Studios with engineer Joel Mireau. Really happy with the results. The session is a mix of material I recorded at home, to which I added more material to in the studio, and pieces recorded and arranged directly in the studio. Hoping to have this material mixed this month.
currently enjoying: Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer; Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly; Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - A Year With 13 Moons; High Aura'd/Mike Shiflet - Awake