Popcorn

Joseph Norman - Electric Guitar and Live Electronics
Jonathan Wilson - Saxophone and Live Electronics
Gigi Macabre - Trumpet on "Diamonds in Hell"

Diamonds in Hell Text by Jonathan Wilson

Hell is a torture pen never ending and like all tortures never stops man who is pain feels what is so strong to the touch blatant is the harsh world curses the name be woe to the man who doesn’t and hell to the furious anger that comes out when it comes out where it comes and why it comes when it comes however so none will ever come to know because it be the cause it and the cause will surely come to them on a plat on a sure lea over it there will a be fine house where a man will live with his woman and a woman will live with her man live it up there where the man lives his woman lives and the soul lives with all of them yet it’s the same sort of gone bygone from the world of paradise lost so lost is the lost pair that dies on the lea together and together is the way of the death do part in the pits of Hell and Hell is the Hell that burns ever like eternal and eternal is the age unknown and the fate unknown to this it is said no more my friend no more and the next thing that happens is what happens to what happens and the man who must live with his actions burns in Hell with the woman who burns in Hell with him and the sort of diamonds that shone in her eyes are the eyes that are shot out of a gun

Asphyxiate

Conflagration

Joseph Norman - Electric Guitar, Live Electronics, and Voice
Jonathan Wilson - Saxophone and Live Electronics
Gigi Macabre - Trumpet on "Diamonds in Hell"

Diamonds in Hell Text by Jonathan Wilson

Hell is a torture pen never ending and like all tortures never stops man who is pain feels what is so strong to the touch blatant is the harsh world curses the name be woe to the man who doesn’t and hell to the furious anger that comes out when it comes out where it comes and why it comes when it comes however so none will ever come to know because it be the cause it and the cause will surely come to them on a plat on a sure lea over it there will a be fine house where a man will live with his woman and a woman will live with her man live it up there where the man lives his woman lives and the soul lives with all of them yet it’s the same sort of gone bygone from the world of paradise lost so lost is the lost pair that dies on the lea together and together is the way of the death do part in the pits of Hell and Hell is the Hell that burns ever like eternal and eternal is the age unknown and the fate unknown to this it is said no more my friend no more and the next thing that happens is what happens to what happens and the man who must live with his actions burns in Hell with the woman who burns in Hell with him and the sort of diamonds that shone in her eyes are the eyes that are shot out of a gun

Diamonds In Hell

Brittle

Joseph Norman - Electric Guitar and Voice
Jonathan Wilson - Saxophone, Live Electronics, and Text

Chortles -

Joseph Norman - Electric Guitar and Live Electronics
Jonathan Wilson - Saxophone

Chortles

Brittle

Toe Wrestling

01 - Fizz - Sonic Print 03 - 08 - 2020

02 - What Are You Doing In There? - Sonic Print 03-08-2020

03 - Ripple Rabbits - Sonic Print 03-08-2020

Aligned at Variance is an experimental music duo that performs in the Iowa City area. This Midwestern music ensemble draws its influences from contemporary classical, free jazz, math rock, noise, and electronic music.

Their musical direction involves the investigation of stream of consciousness composition, spontaneous structural generation, and aspiration towards a nudity of creation. Sonic expressions that result are a struggle towards the purity of individual ideas and an argumentation/synthesis between them. This creative approach provides a range of possible aesthetic results.

Although the ensemble was formed in the spring of 2019, its members have performed together since 2014 as part of the Laptop Orchestra of the University of Iowa (LOUi). They have also collaborated together on projects for a number of events that include: World AIDS Day, Midwest Composers Symposium (MCS), Exchange of Midwest Collegiate Composers (EMCC), the Healing Wars Pop-up Museum, and iHearIC. Aligned at Variance was recently featured on KRUI radio as part of iHearIC’s weekly radio broadcasts and has performed as part of iHearIC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzWbjQnfwCs&t=542s), and has been involved in a collaborative project with Jean-François Charles and the UI Department of Dance for Dance Gala 2019 at the University of Iowa. Current projects include recording a new work composed by Jacob Simmons.

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