He Can Jog

I just submitted the final modified version of my generative...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:59:00 -0400

I just submitted the final modified version of my generative piece Growing to Diapason Gallery where it will be installed on each Saturday in October as part of the .microsound 10th anniversary celebrations. The installation schedule is up here. I’ve uploaded a short two channel excerpt of the piece here.

I started the piece a few years ago as a study in the natural overtone series, which is an ongoing interest for me. In this version, I’ve added a number of new rhythmic elements and spatialized the piece over eight channels. This is my first project with multichannel audio outside of a few isolated home experiments so I’m really excited to hear the final version next month!

If you’re in the NYC area please pop on by Diapason, and make sure to check out the other .microsound events during October - Diapason has a totally stellar lineup including pieces and performances by Kim Cascone, Taylor Deupree, Bernd Schurer and lots more! They’ve got a full schedule and more information on this facebook page.

Flushnik is also incredibly excited to be helping out with the celebrations by hosting the October 8th Deupree / Kirschner / Schurer performance at our space. Please come by on the 8th for a night of digital music!

Tonight! Thursday September 24th to be exact. Bryan and I will...

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:20:00 -0400

Tonight! Thursday September 24th to be exact. Bryan and I will be opening for Brooklyn space funk trio Ergo for their CD release party at Monkeytown. More details and RSVP here.

I recently received masters (mastered by the superb John McCaig...

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:46:11 -0400

I recently received masters (mastered by the superb John McCaig at panicStudios) of the first two EPs in my Norwood Songbook series which I am giving to supporters of our Kickstarter project. It’s not too late to get copies for yourself! (And all future EPs) Just donate five bucks or more to help Bryan and I fund our tour and press a totally kickass 7” here!

He Can Jog Midwest Tour November 2009

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:31:00 -0400

I’m hitting the road via Amtrak in November to tour a preview of material for my forthcoming Home Normal album. I’ll be adding dates below as they are booked - as well as a few trailing shows leading up to the tour.

Buy a 7” and help fund our tour - and get tons of goodies too!

September 24th
Brooklyn, NY | Monkeytown
as Battery (Always Tokyo + He Can Jog) with Ergo - CD Release Party!

November 11th
Boston, MA | TBA
with Always Tokyo and Myer Nore

November 12th
Worcester, MA | The Firehouse
with Always Tokyo

November 14th
Middletown, CT | Wesleyan University
with Always Tokyo, Ben Klein and Myer Nore

November 15th
Brooklyn, NY | TBA
with Always Tokyo

November 16th
Philadelphia, PA | TBA
with Always Tokyo

November 17th
College Park, MD | WMUC FM 88.1
with Always Tokyo and Bobby Azarbayejani

November 18th
Baltimore, MD | TBA
with Always Tokyo and Bobby Azarbayejani

November 19th
Raleigh, NC | Badgerhaus
with Always Tokyo and Subscape Annex

November 20th
Chapel Hill, NC | TBA
with Always Tokyo

November 21st
Washington, DC | TBA

November 23rd
Cleveland, OH | Now That’s Class!
with Jeremy Bible and Matthew Mullane

November 24th
Chicago, IL | TBA
with Implex Grace

November 25th - 28th
Minneapolis, MN | TBA
with NOBOT and Laurel Ogren

November 29th
Milwaukee, WI | TBA
with Made of Oak and Nomad Palace

November 30th
Madison, WI | TBA
with Jim Schoenecker and Nick Sanborn

December 1st
La Crosse, WI | TBA

December 2nd
Milwaukee, WI | TBA
with Made of Oak and Nomad Palace

December 3rd
Brooklyn, NY | Flushnik
with Always Tokyo and Ergo

June Newsletter

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:57:16 -0400

Happy Final Day of June!

Just a few things to report in this brief newsletter revival. How have you all been? Good? I’m glad to hear it!

Audiobulb Records recently released a free label sampler of past and upcoming releases that features a track from my last album Middlemarch. Also featured are a stellar collection of tracks from Jimmy Behan, Biosphere, Ultre, Craque, NQ, Mark Harris, and Hans van Eck of the Schreck Ensemble. It’s a free high-res mp3 download and you can find it here:

http://audiobulb.com/albums/ABS01/ABS01.htm

My label LuvSound also recently featured a recording of a trio performance by myself, Nick Sanborn (Polyvinyl), and Jim Schoenecker (Crouton Music, Table of the Elements) from a 2007 performance at Milwaukee’s Hotcakes Gallery. Dense drones from guitars, laptops, rhodes, and other electronics. You can find it here:

http://www.luvsound.org/singles/

I also recently completed some music with Jonathon Roberts and Bryan Teoh (Always Tokyo, 8bit bEtty) which we wrote for a dance piece called The Basics choreographed by Justina Gaddy at the Merce Cunningham Studios. It was the first time Jon and Bryan and I had collaborated together since we all lived in Wisconsin, and it felt great! I did the electronic farts, Bryan played cello, and Jon sang and played piano. Justina’s choreography was an incredible inspiration to us and we’re hoping of doing more together in the future.

There are a few fun things planned for the future - my next full length record will be out on Ian Hawgood’s excellent Home Normal imprint next year, as well as a special project on Audiobulb Records which will feature a gaggle of friends and colleagues. But more on that later!

Heavy Birds, Always Tokyo, He Can Jog at Stain Bar

Thu, 21 May 2009 07:29:45 -0400

Tonight! I’ll be performing a new version of ‘1981’ along with some other new work, and Always Tokyo and Heavy Birds will be bringing their deep drone folk as hard and fast as ever. More information is here. If you’re in the NYC area, please come out!

Ragged Claws at Stain Bar on Wednesday May 6th. Photo by Bryan...

Fri, 08 May 2009 08:33:00 -0400

Ragged Claws at Stain Bar on Wednesday May 6th. Photo by Bryan Teoh

Volcano! Remix and Chez Bushwick Performance

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:27:00 -0400

This is a post-in-retrospect for the most part — last night I had a great time playing at Chez Bushwick with Jon Roberts for the premire of Justina Gaddy’s The Basics. Jon and I hadn’t played together before last night in years - since we attended college together - and neither one of us had flexed our free improv chops in months, so it felt so good to just spent an hour making noise. I was really impressed with Justina’s solo improvisation and the piece she coreographed that was the centerpiece for the evening. Everything came together well in the space - Chez Bushwick is one of the most well kept up and good looking art spaces I’ve seen so far in Brooklyn. We all made plans to work together in the future, which I’m really excited about.

In other news, I recently completed a remix for my favorite noise-rock band in the universe Volcano! which is out now as a B-Side to a digital single on the Leaf Label. The new single is called So Many Lemons, and you can download my remix of Africa Just Wants to Have Fun as well as a remix by Lee J. Malcolm of Slow Jam from iTunes or direct from the Leaf Label. You can also get it from my favorite UK music shop, Boomkat. Other Music Digital, eMusic, and Amazon all have it too! Boomkat say my remix “sounds like a pop hit that’s been yanked out of the top 40 at some point in 2137.”

That’s all for now!

Performance Guidelines

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:16:54 -0400

Number One: Relenquish Absolute Control

A cruch of electronic music making in general I think is the absolute and perfect mapping of one value onto another. When I pull my slider from 127 to 0, I know the corresponding action will take place perfectly in sync, and if it doesn’t, it is malfunctioning. This is very different from a traditional instrumental approach, which (despite a healthy obsession for instrument upkeep) tends to blame the performer for failure to properly manipluate the instrument when something goes wrong.

My instruments should err on that side - they should be environments to learn and manipulate, rather than slaves to an arbitrary set of rules I conjure up. I need to stop building laundry-list instruments, and start building imperfect instruments. The laundry list is the collection of moments in a piece I want to realize. I make the “bewww bewww” thing and I make the “chicka-wicka” thing, and the thing that chirps on offbeats, and etc. Working that way dooms my software to inflexibility though. Make methods and actions and behaviors, and tie them to something more interesting than 0-127. Drive harmony with a radio. Bang out beats with a contact mic. Stop pressing buttons and turning dials!

Brief Preparation in North Carolina on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:25:28 -0400

Brief Preparation in North Carolina on Vimeo (via Vimeo)