This month’s podcast features the Multiphonic guitar of Ben Miller.
Ben was in the area on tour and came by the studio for a quick session, we got some good stuff; lots of nice textures!!
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This month we’re heading outdoors to explore the secret sounds of ponds with David Rothenberg.
This was a fun adventure! I packed up a battery powered synth (softpop) and amp, and my binaural mic and hiked out to Hidden Lake in Putnam County, NY with David who brought a hydrophone and some speakers along with his clarinet and iPad.
We made some sounds inspired by what was happening below the surface*. The results are strange and surprising!
*Mostly plants photosynthesizing and an insect called the lesser water boatman. (Check out David’s book to learn more.)
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This month’s podcast features three performances from a November 2023 tour with Duo Denum (Al Margolis and Tom Law).
The first is a solo performance in a church in Columbus, Ohio. It dissolves into drone.
The second is a duo performance with Tom Law (viol da gamba and laptop) recorded in Philadelphia.
The final piece is a quartet with Duo Denum and J.S. Wang recorded at a house concert in Toledo, Ohio.
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This month’s podcast features three live recordings from 2023, all of which include either bowed, or circuit bent instruments.
It begins with a performance with conceptual cellist Irman (who also contributes some keyboard) which was recorded at Telephone in Pittsburgh, PA.
Then, there’s a recording from drone day 2023 featuring Tamalyn Miller on horse hair fiddle and Thom Uliaz (burnkit2600) on circuit bent electronics.
Finally there is a very quiet performance that took place across a table next to the kitchen in a civil war era boarding house at XFest 2023 in New Hampshire. This one features the circuit bent Casio MT-240 of Cryptwarblr and I am playing a Bastl SoftPop. Both of us are using the instruments internal speakers.
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This month’s podcast is a haunting soundscape suitable for your halloweening needs.
It features some old Casios (MT-68, SK-1, CZ-101) along with some more modern synthesizers (Strega, Soft Pop, Cloudbusting) and guitar.
Beware! Its scary stuff*, be sure to have some extra pants nearby…
*mildly scary.
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This month’s podcast features Fronds & Fringe, a duo of sound makers from Philadelphia, PA.
Rebecca and Irman came to my studio the day after playing a show in town to record this podcast. I really enjoyed our collaboration, its rare for me to do a studio podcast with more than one musician. There was a lot of good playing and listening happening, and we covered some strange sonic terrain together.
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This month’s podcast features composer/clarinetist David Rothenberg, who came to the studio with his bass clarinet, field recordings, samples and electronics for an afternoon of sonic exploration. The results of our collaboration are surprising and delightful!
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This month brings the 100th Errant Space podcast!!
To mark the occasion, I organized a live event featuring eight past podcast participants which took place on July 1, 2023 at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY.
It was a three hour performance with the performers surrounding the audience, who were encouraged to listen while horizontal. The musicians played in rotating groups of three. This podcast is taken from that performance.
These are the musicians who participated in the experiment:
Al Margolis (piezo micro sounds)
Dean Sharp (processed percussives, samples)
Katie Down (glass and metal instruments, flutes)
Thom Uliasz (TV synthesizers)
Bonnie Kane (saxophone, flute, processing)
Sandy Santra (piano)
Neil Alexander (piano + processing)
Andy Rinehart (piano, accordion)
and me (Craig) (guitar, processing)
We had a fair number of audience members come through during the performance, you’ll hear people moving about on the recording. For best results, listen while laying down, it will almost be like you were there…
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This month’s podcast sees the return of modular synthesist Okkoto!
This winter, I took a trip up to Okkoto’s studio in the mountains where we spent an afternoon exploring sounds… We ended up with plenty of hypnotic rhythms and interesting textures for your listening pleasure.
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This month’s podcast is a collbo with Scary Mountain Wizard who brought his hybrid modular synth/guitar rig over to the studio for some ambient explorations.
I’m very pleased with this one, it has a nice mellowness and there’s a feeling of gentle exploration. At times it gets very slow, almost to the point of stillness…
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