Nervous Stomach

Urchin Sketches

so I've had a couple of pencil urchins. I probably lost my virginity in front of them.
like WAY before I knew what an uni was.

was contemplating the species as an automatic writing tool at Neptune's disposal.
what would be its canvas? algae? leaves of grass?

Like my writing, I have “hundreds” of the snippets and samples of my playing the bass guitar that  rarely break the surface to be heard by anybody.
and the trope of the “tortured artist” (ever popular affectation), or is it the definition of art brut?
To me, same as with writing: you shouldn't let anyone see this ever, lest they find out you're an idiot.
IT'S A FACT:
I've played with other string players only a handful of times (lest they find out I'm a plucking clod).
Anyway
maybe these are a mosaic in notes of stone for the being time
charlie tuna's bored secretaries jotting shorthand for an epitaph's worth of salience, ellipsis

urchin sketches 1

Natural Poppa

Sounds from Sunday morning

board meeting: toothopolis

Aniconic

Huffmaster

You Seem Nice

You Seem Nice: live at high noon saloon

3 bags full

Couldn't be in cali-for-nae-aaa tonight for the minnesinger bash

so i made some notes whille mashin taters in wisconsin

iVIVA el MUSIC IN MOTION!

singular sensation.aac

(checking my uploading skill-set)
This is: db pedersen live @ mother fool's

Recorded on three nights in 2002 and 2003, these are excerpts from my solo sets at VORTEX, an assembled "fun"bag of kooks and sprites all for events at Mother Fool's Coffeeehouse on Williamson Street in Madison, WI.
Jon Arnold curates these series. If it weren't for his taking the time to edit, mix-down, and hand me these as a gift of friendship, the world would less db, I reckon.

Live at Mother Fool's

Live at Mother Fool's 24 August 2002 #1

one of my favorite improv's
greg and yolanda heading off to sebbatical in holland
wishing well

03 Live at Mother Fool's 24 August 2002 #3

the last appearance of 3bags full
at High Noon Saloon
Ben Faringer: drums
Mark Meyer: guitar
Mike Smith: Guitar
Bradley Droessler: Bass

db pedersen: voice

3bags full @ HNS 2  "Jenny 2cuts"

3bags full @ HNS 5  "___________" "Huffmaster" "Aniconic"

unfinished. music down, unmastered vocals added later
the abandoned work of ng kindheit
feel free to pull it if any rights are violated
i never checked

ng kindheit: small town funerals

incomplete work by ng kindheit
never released
recorded at uber studio, chicago by greg norman
mixed at electrical audio, vocals @ electrical audio.


18  months of :"guess what i want?" while the band plodded through the song in my basement.
"let's take a walk," Tim casually says and we stroll out for an ice cream
"I want Jackie Chan meets Stephen Hawking in a threat-down, with a big death-scream at the end,"
the next take (#1001) got it, though it was never released.
such was the work
Recorded at UBER Studios, Chicago, IL 1999
Mixed by Greg Norman @ Electrical Audio

Bradley Droessler: Bass
Nick Kraska: Drums
Tim Miller: Guitar
db pedersen: Voice


ng kindheit: rope trick

my "1st" recorded vocal performance
tossed on the heap
ng kindheit's 1st studio venture, December, 1998
recorded by Wendy Schneider
Cassette release only
Bradley Droessler, Bass
Nick Kraska, Drums
Tim Miller, Guitar
db pedersen, Voice

ng kindheit: deaf like me (coney island, cassette release, 1998)

ng kindheit, long form with nora new dance
composition with nora stephens @ UW, 2000
timothy miller, guitar
nick kraska, drums
tom williams, bass, farfisa
db pedersen, voices
dancers: voices


ng kindheit: SIGH, for Nora New Dance, Lathrop Hall, Madison

I put a shower caddy on my bell tree, dig?

Summatime (not)

Sunday loop

Audio from the board at AFF, 1-26-2019
3rd appearance at AFF, 56th birthday!
khoomei, voice mimesis, khomus or juice harp
bansuri, bells, story

db @ AFF 1-26-2019

Eve's Cottage,  Taliesin West 5:00 AM

Morning silo,  taliesin

from 2000's "and then there's that"
demo of khoomei/extended voice
recorded by Randy Green @ Randy's Recording, Cottage Grove, WI
Kenn Fox produced

as i've been uploading, i've not had a copy of the liner notes from this recording.
I just found a copy at the radio station and am re-editing.

Raymond Land Pedersen is the name of my father, who I barely knew, and the mythos of his beast is alive and well today, though he isn't.
I moved to Madison Wisconsin 16 years ago, worked on a sheep farm, rented a house from the quarrelsome  Ray Peterson, rolled up my sleeves and taught myself to throat sing as an attempt to holler the wraithful spirit of my father from the sky.
Strep throat, cigarettes, years of abusing alcohol and amphetamines, respiratory burns, upper airway herpes, as well as a good knowledge base of the anatomy and physiology of the human oropharynx and guide by the visualization of my father's (and my grandfather's, too) alchemy at the end of arcing metal rod helped to produce the sounds that i will hold dear for the rest of my life.
The first year hurt like fuck-all, I have to qualify.


raymond land (from "and then there's that")

I came down to get a coke .wav

morning silo.wav

silo this evening 6 03.wav

this is a studio track fro my first cd release "and then there's that."
it's all live voice, whistle, etc, effects, created live in the studio with a mic and looped into a soundscape.

"nature" and then there's that

from "Live @ Mother Fool's" this is the closing track, july 2003
vocal improv with looper and Kaoss pad, flute (bansuri)
probably up there with "deaf like me/coney island" for inventive voice track

effed up cows

db pedersen
American throat singer, accompanist/ collaborator for modern dance, performance artist, author, story teller.
extended voice artist. theater, radio, foley, soundscape and design. composer, folk singer, nature mimic.

associated acts:
FOMA, Ng Kindheit, 3 bags full, 2nd Family Band/ Davenport, whole 'nuther, abandon control, gang of voices, Nils Bultmann, UW Dance dept, Kerry Parker,
Crosswalk Chicken, Illegible Bachelors, Mercury Players Theater, Madison Shakespeare Project, WORT, Prolefeed Studios, King of hearts productions,
Pirromount Studios, Lean Dog-Mean Dog, 23 productions, WAE2,

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