instrumentation: LN: electronics, DH: electronics, CF: electronics, flute, vocals

recorded 5 September 2020 at the Lair of Congress

features vocals prepared by CF for the Voices of Trees sound installation in Central Park (NYC), Fall 2020 [see https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/ht8FFqQ0F9VKtnKT]

n-tree

CF flute, voice
DH electronics
LN electronics, keyboard
Recorded May 6, 2023 at Lair of Congress, Rhinebeck, NY

Sun On Stone

CF flute, baoding balls
DH electronics
LN electronics, keyboard
Recorded May 6, 2023 at Lair of Congress, Rhinebeck, NY

Revealed By Stars

Christopher Funkhouser: voice, bass. 
David Hirmes: bass. 
Leonard Nevarez: drums.
Recorded underground in Rhinebeck, NY, June 9, 2017.

Forest Became Hot (extended version)

Recorded 10 May 2019 at Lair of Congress. 
CF flute 
DH bass 
LN drums

Ore Hewn Music

Recorded May 17, 2019 at the Lair of Congress. 
CF flute 
DH bass 
LN drums animoog 
Photograph by Leonard Nevarez

Avigation

The lyrics of “The Has Eyes” is a spontaneous, partial, partly accurate Jackson Mac Low-ian read-through of CF’s essay “Notes on the Body in Relation to Technopoetry” (the Body in Language: an anthology, Counterpath Press 2019), using the seed words/phases: the body in language, language, bod, & technopoetry

CF vocals, sound layering & manipulation 
DH bass 
LN drums, animoog 
Recorded at the Lair of Congress on May 17, 2019.

The Has Eyes

Most Serene Congress performance at Hudson Valley Poetry Bands minifest, Widow Jane Mine, in Rosendale, NY, July 6, 2019.
Chris Funkhouser: flute, voice, rin gong. 
David Hirmes bass. 
Leonard Nevarez: drum, gong, animoog. 
Photo by Will Staples.

Widow Jane Mine 2019.07.06

CF – bass, camera 
DH – bass 
LN – drums, animoog 

Recorded 8.29.19 at Lair of Congress.

demo

Decisive Moment

CF: bass, voice, filters, mixing
DH: bass
LN: drums

Recorded 11/1/19 at Lair of Congress.
Text is acrostically derived ("Plato") from a 2016 paper by Eric Katz titled, "Hume, Plato, and the Knowledge of the Future: A Note on an Argument in the Theaetetus and its relationship to Hume’s Empiricism."
Photo by Christopher Funkhouser.

Point

CF bass, synth, voice
DH synth
LN synth, keyboard

Recorded at Lair of Congress, December 2019.
Unreleased track from the This Yet session.
This Yet available at https://mostserenecongress.bandcamp.com/

Photo by Christopher Funkhouser

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