Upcoming shows.

September 17th in Minneapolis, MN. For more info see Crow With No Mouth
September 22-24 in Milwaukee WI. For more info see FTAM.

Coming soon

Polarity: solo cassette on Handmade Birds
The Human Quena Orchestra: A Natural History of Failure Lp also on Handmade Birds

http://www.handmadebirds.com/
http://www.handmadebirds.com/store/

A Vacant Lot to be In: Solo LP on Hanson Records

http://www.hansonrecords.net/

Blessed Breath: solo cassette on Ides

http://idesrecordings.com/

Here is another picture of the finished tape totems for the collaborative project Matt Ruzicka and I are doing. I am pretty excited to see how this turns out.

Matt's original post.

"Another project born of the will of Frans de Waard and of his Bronbron. Encountering this time in the extrapool studios in Nijmegen, Holland, is the thirtieth prodigy of sound sculpture Ben Gwillam and the master of the art of ...tape recording Jason Zeh. Coaxing sounds from old magnetic tape cassettes is the sound source utilized by two musicians for their improvisations. After five minutes of mechanical noise and silence, a wretched drone takes over and proceeds intermittently creating for a short moment the effect of an incoming storm. Then, still more events: the needle of a turntable; the sound of dust; and other microearthquakes amplified as needed." Translated by Nathan Crook.

Dots Review

Ben Gwilliam/Jason Zeh - Brombron 16: Dots (Korm Plastics)

For Dots, part of the collaborative Brombron project, tape composer Jason Zeh and sound artist Ben Gwilliam used sounds from prepared tape, machinery and 'other magnetic sourcing including posting, freezing, and puncturing tape.' Over 45 minutes there is a lot of silence, punctuated by clicks, scrapes and hiss, all muffled and opaque. A bass drone flickers and is disrupted by static, warbles and collapses. At one point a choir holds a note, becoming a gorgeous angelic 'Ahh', and mixes with an industrial cicada-like whine. They conclude with a dense, grey drone, like Thomas Koner or Francisco Lopez. There are moments of attractiveness amid these scenes but little to make sense of, and why they've been put together like this is anyone's guess.

Joshua Meggitt

First Firing Complete

Ceramics

Matt's tapes are going in the kiln. This thing is going to be sweet.