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Errant Space Podcast #54: with Bastian Void

This month’s podcast features electronic musician Bastian Void from Worcester, MA. I think this is the first Errant Space Podcast session that took place before noon, and perhaps you can hear that freshness in our collabo. Its chock full of amazing modular synth textures and sounds.
Be sure to check out Bastian Void’s recordings on his Bandcamp page. His latest release, Acreage, is fantastic!

And there’s a bonus track from our session HERE, where we went in a different direction and tried a dub-ish experiment.

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Errant Space Podcast #53: Sound/Peace 5

This month’s podcast is from a Sound/Peace performance at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY on August 2, 2019.

The performers were:
Katie Down: Metal and Glass Instruments
Mark Trecka: Piano, Bells and Voice
Thom Uliasz: Circuit Bent and Hand Made Electronics
Craig Chin: Guitar/Loops

Sound/Peace, an occasionally recurring series,  is an immersive sonic experience accompanied by the changing light of the setting sun. Musicians occupy the edges of the space, surrounding listeners in sound, the performance ends as darkness falls.

This is a field recording, so there’s a bit of room noise and shuffling about, but it captures the experience well.

For best results: listen in headphones, lying down, starting an hour before sunset.

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Errant Space Podcast #52: with V. Vecker

This month’s podcast features composer / multi-instrumentalist V. Vecker (Keith Wecker) from Vancouver, BC playing saxophone and synthesizer.

We first met at Space Out, Outside 3, which was featured on podcast #51. A few days later, Keith came by the studio for a podcast session. The results are pretty experimental, with lots of loops and drones and saxophoning, great for late night listening.

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Errant Space Podcast #51: Space Out, Outside 3

This month’s podcast was recorded at the third Space Out, Outside, a semi-bi-annual outdoor electronic music performance.

Here’s who played:
V. Vecker – saxophone, keyboards and loops (who travelled all the way from Vancouver, B.C.!)

Andy Rinehart – accordion

Echonaut –Elektron Digitakt

Nathan Yeager – modular synthesizer

and me (Craig) – Korg Volca Modular and Samplr

We had a fine time spacing out, outside on a beautiful May afternoon!

Nathan Yeager, Echonaut, Andy Rinehart and V. Vecker spacing out, outside.

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Errant Space Podcast #50: Comfort of Strangeness

This month’s podcast is a collaboration with Steve Roe. It is, as the title suggests, quite strange, incorporating found sounds, field recordings and drones.

Steve Roe is the founder of COUNCIL OF (POETIC) EXPERIMENTATION an art collective dedicated to the performance and publication of language based experimental works. His latest project, COMFORT OF STRANGENESS utilizes field recordings, live electronics and voice to create otherworldly soundscapes.

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Errant Space Podcast #49 – with Burnkit 2600

This month’s podcast features the circuit bent sounds of Burnkit 2600. Its super droney, crunchy, filled with great textures and generally delicious. We cover a lot of sonic territory, so strap in and enjoy the ride.

Burnkit 2600 with sound devices.

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Errant Space Podcast #48: Four Years Later, with Mark Trecka

This month’s podcast is a collaboration with Mark Trecka who processes cassette tapes, voice and bells to create beautiful, textured soundscapes.

Mark Trecka in performance Dec. 12, 2018

Also! this podcast, number 48, marks four years of the Errant Space Podcast! Its been a very good experience for me; I’ve met and collaborated with many amazing people and it has really helped me grow as a musician and human. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed it too, and we can continue this journey into sound together.

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Errant Space Podcast #47: Default Mode Network

This month’s podcast is a sort of hybrid; the source material is from a performance accompanying an Ajna Light Therapy session. I took that material into the studio and enhanced, augmented and manipulated it resulting in this extremely ambient podcast.

For best results listen at the lowest possible volume. As they say at ambient festivals, “turn it down!!”

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Errant Space Podcast #46: Three by Three

This first podcast of 2019 takes a look back at three trio performances from 2018, all three unplanned collaborative improvisations.

The first was recorded at a house concert in April and features Nail Jung (piano, electronics) and dRachEmUsiK (electronics and duck).

Next (10:26) is a performance from September at the Northeast Electro-Music Festival with the Oblique Strategists (guitarists Karl Fury and Mario-Enrique Paoli), who kindly asked me to sit in on their set.

Finally (23:34), there is a performance from December at The Thursday Experiment with Bonnie Kane (saxophone), and Karl Warner (harmonium).

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Errant Space Podcast #45 – Sound/Peace 4

This final podcast of 2018 seems like a nice way to close out the year. It’s from a field recording of a Sound/Peace performance (the fourth in an ongoing series) that took place at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY on November 18, 2018.

photos: Nathan Yeager

Here’s some information about the event from the press release:

SOUND/PEACE (Seeking Harmony in Dissonant Times)
An immersive sonic experience accompanied by the changing light of the setting sun.

This performance features pianist/accordionist Andy Rinehart and bass clarinetist/percussionist J Why, along with members of the Beacon Rising Women’s Choir: Clara Masters, Danielle Andretta, Lisa Mayer and Olga Burger led in the Sound Painting tradition by conductor Gina Samardge, all supported by the ambient guitar soundscapes of Craig Chin. A performance rooted in improvisation, Sound Peace explores the evolving realms of ambient music, minimal music, modern soundscape, and earth music.

Sound/Peace aims to create a serene, contemplative atmosphere for deep listening where one can decompress and relax. The musicians occupy the edges of the space, surrounding listeners in sound. Audience members are free to move about the space, creating their own mix of the performance, and are encouraged to bring pillows or mats.

The performance will take place over approximately one and a half hours as the sun sets with the space illuminated only by natural light. The performance will end as darkness falls.

Learn more about Sound/Peace here. And listen to a podcast from the first Sound/Peace here.

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