segment of an improvisation recorded on Winter Solstice 2016: David Hirmes (bass), Leonard Nevarez (drums), Chris Funkhouser (bass)

Noisy - Touch

2nd jam of the new year, first ever with piano, & it is something different (though characters involved & their approach remain constant): David Hirmes (bass), Leonard Nevarez (drums), Chris Funkhouser (piano); track image by CF, inversion in Savannah 2017

Piano One

improvisation with a stated theme... Leonard Nevarez (drums), David Hirmes (bass), Chris Funkhouser (bass), Rhinebeck NY 1/20/17; track photo by CF, Rhinebeck HS 1/19

Chief to the Hail

David Hirmes (iPad), Leonard Nevarez (overdub drum tracks), Chris Funkhouser (electric guitar) improvise over layers of Walt Whitman's poetry, Rhinebeck, 2/3&17/17; track photo by CF

Electric Body (Walt Whitman collage)

Leonard Nevarez (drums), David Hirmes (ipad), Chris Funkhouser (bass), non-ambient studio recordings, Rhinebeck NY February/March 2017; track photo by CF

Filter Identicality

Chris Funkhouser (bass), David Hirmes (iPad), Leonard Nevarez (drums) recorded to Live, February-March 2017; source LP (pictured) purchased by CF on the street in Ciudad de México 1990

Che Comandante

Chris Funkhouser (bass, vox), David Hirmes (bass), Leonard Nevarez (drums), free jam 4-7-17 in Rhinebeck

Sur La Route

one-take tracks emulating a recent improvisation, recorded in Rhinebeck 4/21/17; Leonard Nevarez (drums), David Hirmes (bass), Chris Funkhouser (anagram poem, voice)

St. Petersburg (studio)

Chris Funkhouser reading at Harmony Cafe Woodstock NY 8/29/17, with soundtracks (in Live) by Most Serene Congress and Bessie Smith (processed)

Chris Funkhouser Harmony Woodstock 08 - 29 - 17

Andy Clausen reads "Bad Bald Eagle" at the 27th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival, 9/10/17, Rosendale NY, recorded by C. Funkhouser. Complete reading, along with readings by 10 other poets, posted at PennSound http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Subterranean.php

27th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival

Andy Clausen: Bad Bald Eagle

Nada Gordon (ukulele) singalong with audience at Zinc Bar, NYC, 10 December 2017 recorded by Chris Funkhouser. Lyrics "Assembled by Nada Gordon with lines by Janet Housden, Jaime Borschuk, Maxine Chernoff, Dorothy Moskowitz Falarski, and Chris Stroffolino"

Nada Gordon: The Twelve Days of Trump-Pence

9/3/1991 recording at Aardvark Studio features Richard Loranger (poem/voice/guitar) with thelemonade Stephen Cope (guitar) Karl Daegling (drums) Chris Funkhouser (bass); previously issued on CD PIRATES = THRILL JUNKIES: an Austin (mostly) compilation / NENPA 100 (1997) -and- We Magazine 16 cassette (edition of 100; 1992)

Richard Loranger/thelemonade: Here

Chris Funkhouser performance Union Grove Distillery Arkville NY 4/28/19 as featured poet at Writers Unbound/Writers in the Mountains’ Sixth Annual Catskills Literary Festival,  recorded in Live with Most Serene Congress soundtrack (CF bass/flute, David Hirmes bass, Leonard Nevarez drums); also featured projected images from CF's volume pressAgain; photo by Cole Heinowitz

Chris Funkhouser Union Grove Arkville 04 - 28 - 19

This piece was prepared as a backing track for my performance at The Body in Language: an Anthology (Edwin Torres, ed.; Counterpath Press 2019) book launch at McNally Jackson Books in Brooklyn on 5/24/19. An essay of mine, "Notes on the Body in Relation to Technopoetry" appears in the anthology; I recorded it, sampled a word (technopoetry) and its first footnote, then layered three manipulated tracks into this five minute composition.

Technopoetry

unable to meet in-person due to coronageddon, I began posting various field recordings and sound files to a neutral drive on the network, and inviting different musical collaborators I've had over the years to add tracks. This is the first completed track, featuring Will Staples (bells, percussion; Boiceville, NY), David Hirmes (bass, synth; Barrytown, NY), Marcus Salgado (guitar, groovebox; Rio de Janeiro), & Chris Funkhouser (field recordings, flute; Rhinebeck, NY); mixed by cf at Lair of Congress. If you hear this, & would like to participate in the project, contact cf

Asynchronous Fields 1

improvisations recorded. tracks may be used freely (in part or whole, with acknowledgement; contact email: ctfunkhouser [at] gmail.com)

Knot Landscape 2016-20

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