This month’s podcast gets quite experimental!
I’ve lately been listening to some early electronic music: I love the abstract nature and pure tones of the pre-synthesizer era. Also, I recently saw the film Forbidden Planet, and its amazing soundtrack inspired this podcast.
I recommend listening to this one in the dark and seeing where the sounds take you.
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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 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 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 features Bernhard Wöstheinrich, from Berlin.
Bernhard came to my studio to record before his performance at the Third Tuesdays: Electronic/Experimental Music Night, it was the first time we’d met and we promptly began making sounds together. I find the results of our collaboration have a dream-like quality, as if floating through surreal, ever-changing environments. Be sure to listen in headphones, Bernhard’s sound is amazingly spacious!
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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 pretty special. It features Dean Sharp, who was the first collaborator on the podcast (#3), and who has made several appearances, but on all of those he focused on guitar. This time, he’s gone back to his roots and plays drums(!)
While I’ve dipped my toes into the water, with percussion(ists), this is the first time I’ve had a drummer, playing drum kit on the podcast, and our recording session was a bit of a breakthrough for me. As an ambient musician, I’ve always been somewhat drum-phobic, but Dean is a fantastic listener and has a good understanding of what I do and I think our collabo, while not strictly ambient, resulted in some beautiful improvisations.
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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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This month’s podcast finds me wearing my wormlogo hat and creating deep drones with the Strega Synthesizer and tape.
The Make Noise Strega is one of my recent instrument acquisitions, and I’ve enjoyed exploring its capabilities as a drone machine. These are three of those explorations.
(this is one of the podcasts that i think works best listened to very quietly… or extremely loud.)
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