Step.4D²: Motifs for Trumpet

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Suite #0​.​10 (St Celfer's Symphony & Mix of earcon's Guillotar)

Guillotar 0.7.12.16.30.40

Ao Vivo no Espaço Garganta

Moody Side 2 Side (Espaço Garganta)

Para Antonio

Para Antonio (reflex hammers) [feat. St Celfer]

Step.DDDD (earcon Remixes)

Forcing Function (auralmeet) (Step.4D.210)

The 60's were a good era for 'psychedelic' music - at least, this is what's said. Allow me some visual clanging and flip that 6 to a 9 and talk about the Seattle 90's, also effluent in the 'psychedelic':

"I’ve been listening to old Nirvana bootlegs. I can say my music is influenced by the smashing of instruments at the end of their gigs. Each one is a unique orchestration but within a structure until it exhausts itself. It’s not random or just noise. There is a timing and build of tension. It is even more dramatic to only hear it rather than to watch it.

Kurt Cobain used to make music by surfing the radio and piecing it together with no editing, like early musique concrete collages. He had an old cassette recorder where you have to push the record and play buttons together and then push pause. You can hear the clicks, the getting up to speed..."*

...the tape warbles, and the shitilly timed stops.

*excerpted from the conversation with Tom Moody (www.tommoody.us/archives/2020/12/04/on-breaking-the-square-a-conversation-between-john-parker-and-tom-moody/)

Always live and improvised: Step.4D™ by St Celfer™.

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as featured on:

Radio Eclectus #74: Haroun & the Sea of Grunge (Dec. 10, 2020)

Join us as we clear out some Seattle avant-grunge, with buzzing new tracks by several Northwest musicians. We also bid farewell to Noah Creshevsky and Harold Budd, and honor the late Charles Wuorinen with highlights from a recording of his opera Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a surprisingly jocular setting of Salman Rushdie’s novel by this notoriously serious-minded composer.

There’s more: the debut recording of Body Meπa (a new power quartet featuring Melvin Gibbs), the latest albums from British live-electronic band Langham Research Centre and “lowercase music” inventor Steve Roden, a new project from Marina Rosenfeld that’s a hybrid of composed music and sound installation, Wergo’s new CD dedicated to Younghi Pagh-Paan’s cross-cultural music on her 75th birthday, and a remarkable and prophetic early example of English minimalism that’s just been rescued from 47 years of oblivion. Radical new music from the Northwest and beyond, guaranteed carol-free for the Holidays!

Photo credits: Harold Shapero via Brandeis University, Noah Creshevsky by Michael Hafftka via Open Space, Younghi Pagh-Paan via Ricordi, Langham Research Centre via the artists, Charles Wuorinen By Javier Del Real, Dorota Czerner via the artist, Salman Rushdie by Kubik, Melvin Gibbs by Michael Hoefner, Harold Budd by Masao Nakagami, Thomas Simaku via University of York, Yarn/Wire via the artists, installation by St Celfer, Marco Stroppa via the artist.

Suite #3: Dirge 1

-all beats made by cd skips
-notes made by cd skips and guitar pedals powered by theremin

read about Step.4D™ here:
www.tommoody.us/archives/2021/03/26/st-celfers-step-4d-instrument/
and here:
stcelfer.blogspot.com/p/step4d.html

Dedicated to my three mentors:

Denzil Hurley for pushing me out the door and ultimately sending me to New York (Brooklyn) and coming to my one and only (until now) Seattle musical performance.

To Tom Moody who has guided me since arriving in the 'art capital' and after leaving continues to be a beacon (especially to not give in to the likes economy). Thank you for the continued conversations.

Finally, in memory of Matt Freedman (1957 - 2020), my Brooklyn neighbor and Masters teacher. He would have wanted me to do something unexpected: (vimeo.com/80740361)

Always live and improvised: Step.4D™ by St Celfer™

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