Remnants from a failed hard-drive based community

Microscopic Catastrophe

These recordings are all of layered acoustic guitar with minimal processing.

Guitar Music

Part one of a project using only layered acoustic guitars to create soundscapes.

Dum Vixi Tacui

Part two of a project using only layered acoustic guitars to create soundscapes.

Mortua Dulce Cano

These are the lost recordings of the fantastic tiny people formerly living inside of my laptop computer. Sadly, their world was destroyed when a video card, ravaged with the decay of time, flooded their world with data.

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As the tiny villagers slept, they dreamed in unison of the coming disaster, trying desperately to pinpoint its source. Though they could only muster vague images of an immense storm, their efforts were born out in the world above by a spelling error here, a misplaced pixel there...

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Life carried on as usual for the tiny denizens. Regal processions of sovereign solemnity. Marching in lockstep - 1,10,11,100...

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There were those who did not join in the festivities. Instead they traveled across the burning silicone sands in search of an oracle.

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Live performance at the Re:Sound Migration event. Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve, Vallejo, CA

Live at Re:Sound. February 2015

Live performance at NIME 2016, QLD Australia. The piece uses obsolete and broken sound technology in feedback, controlled my MIDI messages via Max/MSP. Best listed to LOUD!

Blackbox Loops @ Queensland Conservatory

USD Gamelan Live at Shiley Theatre. December 11, 2017

This is an audio example of a project by Colin Zyskowski and Joe Cantrell that uses three high-resolution sensors floated in liquid water. The minuscule wave motion if detected by the sensors and is used to modulate three carrier tones. The frequency of the carrier tones is determined by the average height of the water level over time.

Surf Music

Duet with Jen Boyd - for Estuary Ltd.'s limited-edition acetate release A Simple Procedure.

http://www.estuary-ltd.com/releases/est5007

Western Plastic

Live performance at the Media Arts History Conference in Aalborg, Denmark. All sounds produced exclusively from obsolete, broken, and/or discarded electronic equipment.

Live in Aalborg - 2019

This is the result of a weeklong residency at the Klangendum Analogue Sound Studio in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It uses a number of rare synths and analog feedback.

JoeCantrell

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