Between 2015 and 2017, various recording sessions were improvised with Indigenous anarchist and musician, Klee Benally for the production "Shooting Columbus" (Fifth World Collective, 2017). Only minutes from these brief and extremely experimental recordings were used for the final performances, and are now featured here "warts and all." Due to the nature of the sessions, recordings were captured extremely raw, using contact mics to various objects (books, a hunting bow, and body parts), guitar + vox provided by Klee, and various noise + loops by ACT. There wasn't any rehearsal, and what was produced was very much devised on the spot. 

Dedicated to the memory + spirit of Klee, who departed this earthly realm too soon on Dec 30, 2023.

Killing Kolumbus (ShoCo Sessions 2016-2017)

experiments in sound-making, diy pick up mics, and loops sampling mostly autechre, with Klee Benally, summer 2015 in so-called Tucson / Chukshon Arizona, unceded Tohono O'odham lands.

Klee Benally // ACT - 2015.0666.killkolumbus

jam sessions for 2017 production, "Shooting Columbus"

Klee//ACT - Killing Kolumbus_1

Klee//ACT - KK 2b

Klee//ACT KK_2c

Sound collage from the Shooting Columbus Sessions, 2016, sampling news coverage from Standing Rock.

2016.09.07 #NODAPL

Experiments in sound / musical interventions / librerio rasquache

Klee//ACT KK_2c

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