It Breaks at Sonic Circuits 4/7/12

Also here’s a remix by Ted James of some material we recorded in Providence! Dark darker darkest.

a recent duet with Bernd Klug at 19ths in Brooklyn

I’ll be out and about for a minute or two in April! Small east coast tour with my friends David Grollman (drums) and Lucio Menegon (guitar). I’m playing guitar and probably voice too. I think we’re sounding pretty good!

4/6 Alexandria VA @ Amma House
4/7 DC @ Sonic Circuits Festival
4/8 TBA
4/9 Greensboro NC @ The Science House
4/10 Johnson City TN @ The Hideaway
4/11 Wilmington NC @ Squidco Records
4/12 Carrboro NC @ Ladybird Basement
4/13 TBA
4/14 NYC @ The LaunchPad

man i am tired! more info sooooooooon

pretty sure my thing on the guitar is not about exploration of sounds or techniques. that happens, sure, but it’s like saying my work is about tuning the guitar. it’s important, and it makes the instrument sound good, but the sounds by themselves are mostly pretty boring (unless the point is that they should be all by themselves).

the part i’d rather focus on is what the sounds do / how they interact with each other, how they interact with other people’s sounds / what meanings are constructed through those interactions (or lack of interactions).

maybe i’m moving in the opposite direction from cage’s idea of letting the sounds be themselves? i want sounds to rub up against each other, argue, fall in love, pretend to be other sounds, direct each other, become estranged, all that shit.

Been working up some material with my friend Bernd Klug - startin to get somewhere!

Did I mention this already? From the Rough Weather tour around this time last year. This would be at The Firehouse in Worcester, MA. Erik Schoster on computer and electronics, I’m on gtr. Them’s was good times.

And here’s the opposite of that - me playing at the Chikushikai biennial get-together / concert / hangout thing in Osaka.

Some photos just came in of my performance with Daisuke Fujiwara at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo. Thanks to Cal Lyall for taking these!