Spasmodular, a.k.a. Spasmodular Sounds from Steve's Shortwave, composes soundscapes featuring radio frequency sounds captured among the shortwave spectrum. In addition to using analog shortwave radios as a medium, various electronic instruments and field recordings are utilized as well during the compositional process. Spasmodular is also affiliated with the experimental electronic collective VCO (Vincent Carlton Oscillator).

Self-taught guitarist, composer, microtonalist, improvisor, and video artist, Daniel Stearns grew up a nature mystic and devout Ivesian in his earthbound New England climes obsessed with nature, music, art, and the infinite extraterrestrial carapace of the heavens......Mister Stearns currently resides in Urbana, Illinois and prefers to view his music in a therapeutic/kinetic paradigm where the process is intrinsically tied to sustaining one's own presence in the ongoing work of life and living it as a true work-in-progress.

The yogi sat in prison and tried to tune himself to the "frequency" of the prison walls. Scientists tried to measure the vibrational frequency of his brain. If there is any sustainable development, it must be opening and movement, said yogi. Our 11-dimension knot of emotion resonates always in certain "point" of the "frequency band" of consciousness. That "point" is our reality tunnel with cave walls. Learning is to tune the own "frequency" with others tunnel: to be compassionate, open and curious with co-prisoners. Or to tune it for the escape. No frequency is better than other. They are just higher and lower. Low is good in its purpose. High is good in its purpose. Only thing not good is incapability to move between them under ones deepest will and love. To heal trauma is highest goal of being. (8.8.2020)

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577 Records is proud to be celebrating its 24 year anniversary.  The legendary music master Daniel Carter was one of the first people 577 cofounder Federico Ughi met soon after arriving in New York from Italy in 2000, after a brief stint in London.  It was a meeting of like minds and shortly thereafter the two started a series of house concerts at 577 Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, the apartment where Federico was living at the time. The spontaneous nature of the concerts along with the incredible caliber of the deep downtown underground music they were able to present inspired them to bring the unique nature of what they were doing to a wider audience and they founded the label 577 Records to further that mission. 

577 Records started the New York Forward Festival in 2015 to mark the momentous occasion of Daniel Carter’s 70th birthday, now with festival editions happening in Morocco and Italy as well, and the international residency program Sounds of Freedom, in which active musicians are awarded the opportunity to develop their own sound, skills, and improvisation concept.

100% of profit from the sale of most of these albums goes to the musicians.

 

 “Guided by a mission to capture the ephemeral, to keep jazz relevant, and to foster a collaborative community of artists, the music 577 releases is timeless, masterful, and mystical.” - Bandcamp

“the music of new possibilities, full of spirituality and introspection, an alternative that did not need volume or screaming at the top of your lungs to position itself, and coupled with a deep sense of pulse and the blues.” - Free Jazz Blog

“577 Records, the musical home of the daring and the brave” - All About Jazz


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Daniel Carter (born December 28, 1945, in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American experimental saxophone, flute, clarinet, and trumpet player active mainly in New York City since the early 1970s. One of the legendary masters of creative music. Born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania in 1945.

Carter is a prolific performer and has recorded or performed with William Parker, Federico Ughi, DJ Logic, Thurston Moore, Yo La Tengo, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Sonic Youth, scientist/musician Matthew Putman, Cooper-Moore, Sam Rivers, David S. Ware, Yoko Ono, Living Colour, Medensky Martin and Wood and Jaco Pastorius among others. He is a member of the cooperative free jazz groups TEST and Other Dimensions In Music.
 

Discography on 577 Records
Listening Group
Inside The Studio Vol. One
New York United
Telepathic Alliances
LIVE!
Extra Room
Extra Room Vol. Two
The Dream
Life Station
Mountain Path
Gowanus Recordings
People's Resonance
Concrete Science
In Ponta Delgada
South Of Brooklyn
Astonishment
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