Bang on a Can Summer Festival
Monday, July 29, 2013 @ MASS MoCA's Hunter Theatre.

Todd Reynolds, conductor
Lina Andonovska, flute
Megan Clune, clarinet
Daniel Cutchen, oboe
Molly Germer, violin
Micah Ringham, violin
Hannah Nicholas, viola
Douglas Machiz, cello
David Sánchez, double bass
David Abraham, marimba/glockenspiel

universe explosion is an acoustic piece as a zoomed out timeline of the universe, from big bang to heat death.

universe explosion [live @ MASS MoCA 7.29.13]

cut #4 from 'a utopian act', the debut album of & (ampersand), out now on SLASHSOUND

get the full album at slashsound.bandcamp.com

& (ampersand) is the collaborative emblem of adam cuthbért and daniel rhode.

& started in 2009 and has seen numerous incarnations within the Sight/Sound project, beginning as a post-rock-meets-chamber-ensemble band playing Radiohead, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, as well as original compositions. returning officially in 2014 from the ether, distilled to its founders in the form of an abstract electronica duo, wielding instruments like trumpet, guitar, MIDI controllers, Orphion, Ableton Push, the YouTube mobile app, and more to create dense and expansive abstract sonic landscapes, evoking a sense of space where there once was an object.

& - how fresh my outfit is

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Frenzied drums and alkali drones react together on the debut of Adam Cuthbert’s techno project I-VT. Inspired by the blighted 24-hour political inundations, I-VT bulldozes your sound system with mechanized bangers and wordless manifestos.

CONSTITUENT

IVT – CONSTITUENT

 (aka 夢世界 Dream World)
track 02 from 'dream world EP'

John Schuster-Craig, piano
Adam Cuthbért, trumpet

The nature sounds and trumpet samples recorded in a park in my hometown at midnight.  Dedicated to  my patron angel who resides on the rift between reality and imagination.

buy @ /store

yumesekai [taiga] ft. John Schuster-Craig

excerpt from 'zero...sixty'
live @ Roulette with inmixedcompany

Adam Cuthbert, trumpet
Joe Tucker, drums
Dave Broome, piano

New York Public Library – zero...sixty (live @ Roulette)

[full album] i-vt.bandcamp.com/album/bloc 

blends of rhythmic rudiments from Chicago footwork, barrelling momentum of industrial techno, and reverberant grunge of freakatone.

This sonic thesis, inquiring into the experiments and techniques taught at the UPA Ghost Program, is a complex array of tangled rhythms, swarming drones, transforming vocal cuts and distorted melodies that hit deep on a sound system.

IVT – BLOC

[full album] i-vt.bandcamp.com/album/bloc 

This sonic thesis, inquiring into the experiments and techniques taught at the UPA Ghost Program, is a complex array of tangled rhythms, swarming drones, transforming vocal cuts and distorted melodies that hit deep on a sound system.

BLOC

IVT – ARC ETHER (A-0 Remix)

track 01 of 'dream world EP'

Michael Balangue, guitar

Comprised of field recordings from around downtown Grand Rapids' Blue Bridge, and a midnight improvisation session by guitarist Michael Balangue on the 'Little Mac' bridge at Grand Valley State University's Allendale campus.

bridges [grand rapids] ft. Michael Balangue

procedurally-generated freedom
deconstruction/synthesis
cofounder @slashsound

francis cuthbert

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