THAT :: CONCERT CHAMPÊTRE
Unpopular Classics (Poulenc)
Live at QUEERING SOUND, 06 June 2021
Rhizome DC, Washington DC USA

THAT :: JS Adams + Christopher Mathews-Larsen
RECORDING :: Steve Sanford
MIX :: JS ADAMS

THAT :: CONCERT CHAMPÊTRE :: LIVE

THAT + GLEB KANASEVICH :: SONATA FOR CLARINET + PIANO
Unpopular Classics (Poulenc)
Live at QUEERING SOUND, 06 June 2021
Rhizome DC, Washington DC USA

THAT :: JS Adams + Christopher Mathews-Larsen
DIGITAL CONTRIBUTOR :: Gleb Kanasevich
RECORDING :: Steve Sanford
MIX :: JS ADAMS

THAT + GLEB KANASEVICH :: SONATA FOR CLARINET + PIANO :: LIVE

Am7 CHORDS! MOTORIK BEATS! CICADAS! BUZZSAWS! KAZOOS!

LIVE @ QUEERING SOUND 2021 :: 13 JUNE 2021 :: RHIZOME DC :: WDC

CK BARLOW :: SAMPLER / ELECTRONICS
CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS-LARSEN :: GUITAR / DRUM PROGRAMMING / AZTEC DEATH WHISTLE
JS ADAMS :: PROCESSING + EFFECTS / FIELD RECORDINGS / LOOPS / AZTEC DEATH WHISTLE / AUDIO PLAYBACK
JEFF BARSKY :: GUITAR
JOSH MAXWELL :: BASS
+
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION :: KAZOOS
AUDIENCE COORDINATOR :: CHRIS VIDELL

RECORDING :: STEVE SANDERS

ONE CHORD PONIES :: A LIFE OF INDETERMINATE REWARD

DECONSTRUCTION/RE-ADAPTATION OF LA VOIX HUMAINE (THE HUMAN VOICE), AN OPERA BY FRANCIS POULENC BASED ON THE ONE-ACT PLAY BY JEAN COCTEAU. HELLO? HELLO!

LIVE @ QUEERING SOUND 2021 :: 15 JUNE 2021 :: RHIZOME DC :: WDC

[ live performers ] 
CK BARLOW :: SAMPLER / ELECTRONICS
CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS-LARSEN :: GUITAR
JS ADAMS :: PROCESSING + EFFECTS / FIELD RECORDINGS + LOOPS / SAMPLES / CALIFONE + PREPARED VINYL / AUDIO PLAYBACK
JEFF BARSKY :: GUITAR
JOSH MAXWELL :: BASS

[ digital contributitors ]
BLEEDINGBLACKWOOD . {AN} EEL . JASSIE RIOS . ROSHI NASEHI . SARAH O’HALLORAN . KATIE MACYSHYN 

RECORDING :: STEVE SANDERS
MIX :: JS ADAMS

LA VOIX HUMAINE :: 13 JUNE 2021 :: LIVE

EXP L ODED VIE W 002 :: A COW ORK ER I S GIVE N KEROSENE

EXP L ODED VIE W 001 :: A COW I S GIVE N KEROSENE

AUDIENCE MASSED PLAYBACK
SUNDAY 14 NOVEMBER @ RHIZOME DC

MUSIC FOR THE ROYAL FIREWORKS

Audience Massed Playback for THAT MAJEURE + OPTIONAL CHORAL FINALE performance during QUEERING SOUND 2022, Sunday 05 June at Rhizome DC.

MASSED PLAYBACK OPUS 15

THAT BIG CLOUD :: YOU NƎ VƎR UN DƎ RST OOD MƎ // YOU NƎV ƎR RƎALLY TRIƎD
15 October 2023 :: No Place Like Home :: Rhizome DC

THAT CLOUD // THAT BIG CLOUD

JS Adams :: loops . processing + manipulations . prepared vinyl . Aztec death whistle . cloud whispering
Christopher Mathews-Larsen :: guitar + effects . cloud whispering 
Chris Videll :: electronics 
RA Martini :: bass + violin
Josh Maxwell :: bass

[ in absentia ] CK Barlow 
[ samples ] Lewis Chiodo :: Broken ES-1 Glitch Pack 
[ recordings ] Markus Meier 
[ image ] Greg Mercer @gregleemercer

thatcloud.bandcamp.com/

THAT BIG CLOUD - 15 OCT 2023 - LIVE

Deconstructed Industrial Turntablism
Live at QUEERING SOUND l QUEERING NOISE
Rhizome DC WDC

JS Adams,  A/V classroom turntables + power tools
https://thatcloud.bandcamp.com/

Jeff Carey, code + processing 
https://jeffcarey.bandcamp.com/track/ctrl-2015

Zoe! Salwen, original recording + mix
https://eyerolls.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-inches-2
"[M]y once-trusty zoom recorder has fallen ill: the right channel has some weird digital squeakery occurring at 1khz intervals during the quiet bits."

BLK CHRISTIAN :: Live at QUEERING SOUND 2024

THE CONSTRUCTIVIST BROTHƎRHOOD: Let the panic ensue Claire de Lune 
De courtes vignettes audio peuplées d’un casting de personnages réinventés douteux: Hugo Ball + Emmanuel Radnitzky dressed as a pantomime horse, alongside Carl Jung looking rather dapper in a sporty pork pie hat + Mies van der Rohe disguised as a small radioactive radish.
 LIVE @ Rhizome DC :: Friday 02 May 2025


THE CONSTRUCTIVIST BROTHERHOOD Let the panic ensue Claire de Lune

Glitch Pop for a Smart + Mobile Peoples ... only smaller

JS Adams : Korg-littleBits . voice
Chester Hawkins : Korg-littleBits feed + effects . voice

Chester Hawkins : recording
JS Adams : mix

David Szauder : image
www.behance.net/pixel_noizz

Greenbelt Art Center rehearsal, Saturday 22 August 2015
Washington DC USA

(c) + (p) 2015 Adams / Hawkins

halfbytes : joskus tapiireja vain ymmärrä

Watching Animals Drive
[1986 cassette and graphics packet; ARS/Diversion, Louisville KY USA]
[personnel] JS Adams . Jeff Jobson . Bill Parrish . Bob Hunter . John Timmons
[guests] Vera Fiestie . Albert Hall . EA Winkler
[note] part 1ne of this cardboard leisure trilogy
[note] Tracks "Department of Ladders" and "Big Cloud" not included due to tape damage

STUTTER B6 Watching Animals Drive 05.05

SO FA
[1987 cassette and graphic packet; ARS/Diversion, Louisville KY USA]
[personnel] JS Adams . Jeff Jobson . Bill Parrish . Bob Hunter . John Timmons . EA Winkler
[note] part 2wo of this cardboard leisure trilogy

There never existed in me / the amount of tears / that could extinguish / fire

A2 Home Wise

A1 Jaw Of Trinidad

http://soundcloud.com/blkwbear
Vist the official Soundcloud page for BLK w/BEAR; STYLUS turntable ensemble; and BLK TAG collaboration with Chris Videll (Tag Cloud).

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