Infinite Spirit Music: 15th October '25

St Celfer returns with tracks culled from a series of live shows, each one a showcase for his inventive experimentalism. 
Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 26, 2023

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qahr - A Buffer Finger Ride (Live at Schlafly, St Louis, 2025)

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™. 

I'm happy to announce on September 17, 2021, Step.4D² was brought into this world.

There hasn't been much time to celebrate as things could be called tense, us three stuck in a room together. Hear the back and forth conversation, track by track, culminate with the last part of track #16. Sounds like Step.4D² is here to stay.

See you in 2022. I am building a portable and more minimal device, Step.4D.bkwrdE, for playing with others.

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

Step.4D².56

St Celfer, ft. Christin Call

“Seattleʼs St Celfer writes immersive electronic songs that encompass both haunting beauty & wild experimentalism.” – BANDCAMP

St Celfer, of Korean and American origin, currently lives between São Paulo and Seattle, the latter living off/on since 1990. A fan of Seattle grunge, was, once upon a time, in the 00’s New York scene performing, among other places, at CBGB’s, The Kitchen, Tonic, The Tank, Remote Lounge, Galapagos Art Space, Sputnik, and Stinger Club.  

During the isolation of the pandemic, St Celfer developed an innovative and sophisticated electronic instrument – a “gambiarra,” in Brasilian Portuguese – named Step4D™. This unpredictable instrument is designed to be played and heard live, in real time, and works in a way that bypasses step by step, rational thinking. Every unique performance embraces chaos and forms songs from turmoil.

St Celfer has twice been named New & Notable on BANDCAMP (2021 & 2022), and is the featured wave track for Infrasonica issue #7, ‘Voicing Abstraction’. Much of his work can also be found on his YouTube channel.

C. Asa Call is an assemblage artist living in Seattle and making work primarily at the cross-section of dance, film, installation, and poetry. She received her BA in Painting and Art History from Wichita State University, co-founded Coriolis Dance and was co-Artistic Director for 14 years. She is also the founder of The Shed, a performance installation space that facilitates residencies for artists with complex practices. 


Pyre for Tom (Live at the Wayward Music Series, Seattle, 2023)

Fifty One (Live at Schlafly)

Finale Dois (Super Happy Fun Soundcheck)

Hello,

I have come back in time and named myself St in order to catch your attention. My name merely says 'reflec ts' when you look at it in a mirror.

We have mirrors in the future but no currency, and things cost nothing to make thanks to capitalism. We ditched that too and call your time the Second Dark Ages. (But understand it needed to happen - please do not take offense; it was simpler this way.)

I make sound pieces and was able to patch together an instrument that is close to familiar to what I have in the future. It all mounts to a single mic stand with interconnected gear attached to it which I have arranged so I can best play it live.

You can read a nice article about it here:
www.tommoody.us/archives/2021/03/26/st-celfers-step-4d-instrument/

These are single edit live performances. I plan to release them as 3+ track albums. I have done over 200 pieces keeping roughly ⅓ of them which I begin to present here.

This first release is curated for easy digestion and a taste of the future. I hope you enjoy and, if so, can become a contributor. More future very soon.

Thank you,

StC 

It was great to put my live and improvised set, more minimal for the road, to the test - that being truly live. Part of my music making is to place myself in a space beyond step by step and rational thinking. Those nights often my right hand did not know what my left hand was doing. Indeed, the right and left sides of my brain were also out of sync. I have an interface to control notes and sound waves in each hand which unpredictably collide. Live on stage, I am trying to embrace the chaos. Chaos has its own predictable character. Instead, an unusual, human-made, audible form emerges from the turmoil, songs, that I have recorded and present here.

£zra - a Jasm w/ Proofs as Fabrications (Live at Rhizome)

An experimental type of jazz and baroque-like music that speaks of passing away. Courageous, demanding, giving many thoughts and impressions... more beautiful every time I listen to it.
Puch Okruch 

Home d0.1

qahr - a Buffer Finger Ride (Live at The Lab)

These rough, harsh sounds are for me honest like a life... inherently unpredictable, imperfect, full of collisions and fluctuations in emotions.
Puch Okruch 

Thanks to my Brooklyn bandmates, Ron, Pat, Drew, Richard and Marc, who taught me how to play, often on the job - meaning: live on stage, including an experienced crowd at CBGBs (R.I.P.) or, worse, a noisy Williamsburg art party.

Thank you also to the people I met on the internet in typical places but also others, where you listened to my story and helped me put together this homemade instrument with ideas & materials.

Postscript: Thank you Mateusz for your correspondence and wisdom
"You cannot sell yourself to the wind. If you need money, work in another profession and create as a hobby." - Komendarek

Thank you finally to M.Po [tommoody.us], Bia, BS corp language and almost all communication nowadays for the Step.4D² titles. Also, the Saxen for the Kaoss.

I hope you enjoy. 

Let's Circle Back To That (Step.4D.370 - StC Lives.67 remix)

Demais (Parte Puch Okruch) (Wayward Music Series - Rehearsal)

St Celfer™ just started using Soundcloud!

New tracks tagged #Music Concrete