Building on improvisational methods, Makebelief morphs pop music into an expansive audio topography, reimagining Auto-Tune and blending warped instrumentation with inventive sample collage. His mosaic style is informed by electronica, pop, trap, noise, and indie to create an esoteric sound that evokes “big feelings.” Makebelief is currently at work on his sophomore album, set to release in 2024. His debut album, Confusion Fruit, is available now on all streaming platforms.

It's not a show. It's a conversation. PMM is a monthly social gathering that revolves around collaboration and improvisation. Each event features performing artists, visual artists, and our house band IMPROVESTRA, an improvising orchestra conducted by the event's co-creator Adam Conrad. 

This soundcloud page serves as the audio archive for content that really catches our ear at these events. 

Kevin Rhys mainly plays piano, keyboards, and noisy electronics. He believes in serial commas. He is no stranger to live collective improvisation.

Submit booking, licensing, and label correspondence to keston@audiocookbook.org

John C.S. Keston is an award winning composer of electronic, experimental, and instrumental music. His work embraces the chaotic ambiguities of environmental and sensorial influences providing context within unpredictable or everyday events. His unconventional compositions convey a spirit of discovery and exploration through the use of graphic scores, chance and generative techniques, analog and digital synthesis, experimental sound design, signal processing, and acoustic piano. His compositions parallel indeterminate improvisation activating what remains immutable within traditional forms of notation driven music. Performers are empowered to use their phonomnesis, or sonic imaginations, to contribute to the work.

His music appears in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012) and he composed the music for the short Familiar Pavement (2015) presented at the MNKINO Film Score Fest. He has appeared on more than a dozen albums including two solo albums on Unearthed Music. His latest release, Isosceles (2016) has drawn comparisons to the Stranger Things soundtrack. In 2011 he won the Minnesota Emerging Composers Award for electronic musicians. In 2013 he won the Jerome Fund for New Music for his project documenting binaural duets with the Singing Ringing Tree in the UK. 

John has performed and exhibited original work at Northern Spark, an all night arts festival with over 200,000 attendees (MN); the Weisman Art Museum (MN); the Montreal Jazz Festival; the Walker Art Center; the Burnet Gallery (MN); the In/Out Festival of Digital Performance (NYC); the Eyeo Festival (MN); INST-INT (MN); Echofluxx (Prague); WMC (Miami); and Moogfest (NC). In addition, Keston has worked with Atmosphere, Jon Davis, Martin Dosh, Peter Hennig, Joshua Herbst, Cody McKinney, Graham O'Brien, Adam Svec, and Nils Westdal to name a few. John resides in Minneapolis where he is a professor of creative multimedia at the University of St. Thomas and founded the widely read sound design resource  <a href="http://audiocookbook.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AudioCoobook.org</a> where he shares sounds and writes about his unique approach to composition, production, and performance.

Violin/Viola/Arranger/Producer. Pronouns: they/them. Instrumental pop with a violin lead in-studio. One-person orchestra live looper.

i take the world and i fuck it

* whipplegang*
DIP WHIPPLE
THICK TRICKLE
BIG FAQS
TIMMY PIMPLE
JUAN LOBSTER
NATE

Macro explores wild sound excursions from a funky strut, to a robot's nightmare.  If your musical tastes include odd-time signatures, check out Odd Time Share.  This playlist is an album composed for the National Solo Album Month of November.   

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