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lyrics
i call for
another deity
but your name
is what comes out of me
and i'm left
begging for a pardon
from the man
who sent me starving
crawl and call
out for the goddess
the hungry
dogs come regardless
with the
fondness of a cat hiss
give them a
hand man they handled it
handing down
sentence like Pontius

light so old
i think it's gone from whence it glowed

i call for another day
but your name comes out of me

hallelu (sp?)
drunk on the cruise
like an unc (sp?)
for evening news

wondering why the light looks ancient
who'll survive
without money in the Caymans?

my name lives on tongues of friends*
briefly then let language end*
light so old and still we can't
fake or force resignation

drunk at the function*
split into billions of atoms*
take my hand*
there i am again*

*lines heavily influenced (see: lifted) by the poetry of Danez Smith

Another Deity

Field recordings from the idyllic prairie at Homestead National Monument and original instrumentation stitched together into compositions.

Thanks very much to the NPS artist-in-residency program. Thanks to the staff at Homestead National Monument for being so supportive of the artists they host.

http://www.nps.gov/subjects/arts/air.htm

Milky Backbone

Not Uninhabited Pt. 2 (Jacksonland)

Free Land

Exodusters, Immigrants

Blue Eyes

Underground Since Birth (feat WC Tank)

Not Uninhabited Pt. 1

Songs (mostly) recorded at ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions)in July 2016.

Thanks: ACRE, Tony Paterra, Sat. Nite Duets, Jonah Lehrer (who is mostly wayyyyyyyyyyy too smart for me to understand), Don Delillo, & the movie Syriana.

Uncle Sam's Club For The Agoraphobic

The Sound Of Machines

Not Everything Is Not Right

“Never underestimate an exponential.”
-Carl Sagan

The concept for “Braided River” started at a two-week residency at Denali National Park in July of 2017. 

On one of many hikes through Denali’s six million acres of wilderness, I came upon a group of trees, dead but still standing in the ground. Using a Zoom H6 (thanks Timmi), I went to sample sounds from them. Expecting flat percussive elements, I was absolutely blown away by the rich tones of the branches when I "plucked" them. Pointing the mic directly the branch at close range acted like a pickup on a giant guitar string. 

Each branch revealed a different timbre depending on its diameter, length and structural integrity, so I took hundreds of samples. Digitizing and fine-tuning the samples, I built a chromatic midi instrument completely out of branch plucks. 

Reading Carl Sagan’s "Billions and Billions" at the time was instilling in me a fear of exponential growth. This was reinforced when I met Dr. Peter Griffith of NASA’s Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), who, with his team, was studying the effects of global warming in the Arctic. An exponential growth in CO2 and methane could occur, he explained to me, as more organisms are able to survive off the ever-thawing permafrost. No one really knows what’s going to happen, but it’s a possibility. It’s important to measure these changes while they’re occurring in the Arctic, as they will not be staying in the Arctic.

I decided to try and aurally represent the idea of an exponential through repeated notes gaining in pitch and regularity. The opening of “Braided River” was born.

After the opening of the song, I allowed myself to bend the song in whichever direction it wanted to go, inspired by Denali’s iconic braided rivers. It was a bit of musical free-association with some eventual heavy digital manipulation.

Dr. Griffith would later explain to me that there was nothing exponential about my composition, but that this was okay, as I was sparing the listener from the unpleasantness of a true exponential (think screeching feedback from a mic too close to a speaker).

Thanks: NPS, Staff of Denali National Park, Timmi Oyen, Stephen Woods, Lauren Polansky, Nancy Holman, Cinnamon Dockham, Davyd Betchkal, Steven Lias, Tim and Terri Escher, and my coworkers/supervisors for their constant support.

The phrase “More circuitious … like a braided river” must also be attributed to Dr. Griffith from a conversation about how he got into his line of work.
Vocals and claps recorded at Silver City Studios.
Mixed by Josh Evert at Silver City Studios.
Mastered by Chuck Zink.
Album art by Jake S. Miller.

Braided River (Work from 2017 Residency at Denali National Park)

Song written by Woody Guthrie
Arranged by Josh Evert for GuthrieUNCOVERED, a unique interpretation of the music of Woody Guthrie

Friday, February 9 at Turner Hall Ballroom
In Partnership with Alverno College
Curated by Johanna Rose | Produced by David Ravel

Song recorded, mixed and mastered at Silver City Studios.
https://www.facebook.com/SilverCityStudios414/

Jolly Banker (Woody Guthrie cover)

my julie n me ft. Serengeti

i'll take that as a "maybe" ft. D'Amato W and TreccyMT

good morning everybody, can you hear me?

all around town me n julie ft. Serengeti

i'm ready to die

land low

don't change

All electronic elements were synthesized by Seakn
seakn.bandcamp.com

This project grew out a remix request from him. He has a very cool album of dark, moody, modular synths coming out very soon.

Everything else recorded, mixed, and mastered at Silver City Studios
silvercitystudios.net

Artwork is the dang sun courtesy of NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
archive.org/details/MSFC-0201665
I swear i didn't search for "corona" in archive.org, i wouldn't do that. Not now, not ever. However, i did search for "penumbra," "emanation," and eventually "eclipse." :/
credits
released May 1, 2020

Penumbras

Emanations

Songwriter/composer/producer from Milwaukee, WI. Previously Artist-in-Residence at 360 Xochi Quetzal in Mexico in winter of 2018, Denali National Park (Jul 2017), ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions)(May 2016), and Homestead National Monument (Nov 2015). Soundtracking credits include Al Jazeera's Faultlines series; The Laura Flanders Show; Custom Reality Services; Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, The Makwa Initiative, Colectivo Coffee Roasters; Sabljak, Raether & Hogerton; and various independent filmmakers. Co-founder and co-operator of Silver City Studios (www.facebook.com/SilverCityStudios414/).

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