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Errant Space Podcast Ninety — with Neonach

This month’s podcast features Neonach (Craig Douglas) from Western Massachusetts.
Craig combines vocals, electronics and acoustic instruments to create lush, immersive soundscapes.  Our collaboration explores varied sonic topographies and imaginary frontiers…

Neonach at Quinn’s in Beacon, NY.

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Errant Space Podcast Eighty Nine: BLIP

This month’s podcast is a binaural recording from the July 2022 Space Out, Outside.
It features Bob Lukomski (granular synthesizers, samples) and Irman Peck (conceptual cello/bass guitar).

Its a really beautiful field recording, best experienced in headphones, with subtle interactions between the players, and their environment.

(L-R)Binaural Mike,  Irman Peck, Me (Craig), Bob Lukomski. (photo Bill Loeb)

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Errant Space Podcast Eighty Eight: Moon Serpent & Bone Night Market

This month’s podcast is from a performance at the Moon, Serpent & Bone Summer solstice night market where I provided background atmospheres.

I enjoy these longer, very ambient performances. They give me an opportunity to experiment and really get slooww.

The performance area at the Night Market.

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Errant Space Podcast Eighty Six: The Return of Tom Law

This month’s podcast sees the return* of Tom Law, but with a twist!
In addition to being an experimental musician, Tom has an interest in early music and brought along his Viola da Gamba to our session. He incorporated it into his Max/MSP rig and two worlds collided (to weird effect).

Tom Law with Viola da Gamba

We ended up with a wonderfully abstract series of soundscapes which I find very transporting. Best enjoyed in headphones, lying down in a dark room…

*Tom’s first appearance was podcast fifty eight.

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Errant Space Podcast Eighty Four: with Concetta Abbate

This month’s podcast features the violin and voice of Concetta Abbate.

Concetta came up to the studio from Queens, NY on a weird winter day that started sunny and devolved into icy snow squalls. The three improvisations that comprise this recording really seem to capture the feeling of that day.

Concetta Abbate is a classically trained violinist turned  improviser and composer. Grammy.com describes her original performances  as a mix of “Violin and delicate vocals that float between the worlds of  Modern Classical, Neo-Folk, and poignant and poetic verse”. She has  released three studio albums exploring art song, avant chamber music and  free improvisation.

Website: www.concettaabbate.com

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Errant Space Podcast Eighty Three: Back to Basics

This month’s podcast is a return to basics. As winter starts winding down I’m reconnecting with the electric guitar as a tone generator, and preparing for live performances again after being in studio mode and getting lost in the world of synthesizers.

I constructed this podcast from five exercises where I explored the sonic and textural palette of my guitar performance rig. It felt a bit like reconnecting with an old friend, and it was nice to be reminded of the strange world of sounds we can create together.

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Errant Space Podcast Seventy Nine: OCCULTS

This month’s podcast features my occasional project with Andy Rinehart, OCCULTS.
We create strange, unsettling soundscapes, in this case for Moon, Serpent and Bone’s 3rd Annual Samhain Oddities & Curiosities Night Market where the performance that became this podcast was recorded.
It gets pretty spooky, so keep the lights on and prepare a change of pants…

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Errant Space Podcast Sixty Seven: Explorations for Battle of the Ancients

This month’s podcast features sonic explorations for Battle of the Ancients, a board game from my friends at Gilded Skull Games that should be coming out next year.  (The Battle of the Ancients Kickstarter is live now, check it out!)

Here I explore the quieter, more ambient aspects of the sound of Battle of the Ancients; trying to come up with themes, textures and atmospheres that may make their way on to an eventual game soundtrack. (You can find the previous soundtrack I did for Gilded Skull HERE.)

Coincidentally, I often try to produce some sort of weird “imaginary soundtrack” for my October podcasts that listeners can use to set the mood for their halloweening, and this one suits that purpose well.

Here are some of the devices used in the creation of this podcast.

The keyboard sounds for this podcast were mostly from some old casios, which I find quite evocative. I recorded them to cassette 4-track to add some extra texture before further digital manipulation.

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Errant Space Podcast Sixty Six with Charles Shriner [remote variations 3]

This month’s podcast features electronic musician Charles Shriner from Indianapolis, Indiana. Unlike previous remote variations, this one was a live, real-time collaboration using the Jamkazam platform, which worked quite well. I think the end result is comparable to collaborations recorded  live in my studio.

Charles cleaned up and mixed the files from two Jamkazam sessions then I edited them as I would do for any podcast. (He also provided the image used in the header graphic.)

Here is some Bonus material from the sessions with Charles.

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Errant Space Podcast #59 – Errant Elf, or Quantum Space?

Errant Elf, or Quantum Space… whichever you choose, this month’s podcast is from a live performance with Quantum Elf which took place on December 7, 2019 at the Rotunda in Philadelphia as part of the Event Horizon concert series.

Quantum Elf is Karl Fury (guitar, lap steel) and Floyd Bledsoe (synthesizers). It was a real honor to have these guys sit in with me for this show. I think our performance was pretty epic!

Quantum Elf (Karl Fury and Floyd Bledsoe)

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