Audio interview with Jan St. Werner for Trickhouse.org. 

Before the first interview Eric Jordan had with Jan St. Werner, possibly best known as one-half of Mouse on Mars (Andi Toma being the other half), Jan's tour manager advised him: "Be careful, he wanders." Nothing of the sort happened however. The day was slightly warm and sunny and they went only across the street for coffee. Thinking back, it was Eric that initiated the jaywalking. 

At the risk of unnecessary parallels to other sound work and compositional form, to describe St. Werner's work becomes tricky, as lines are drawn through and around disciplines and practices, which is a fantastic strength. The sound is alive and at times very wild. There is an awareness, sometimes referential, other times of their own language. Some of it is immediately recognizable as being of a certain hand. From early releases up to present time, there is a progression, strengthening, and refinement of sound and structure. Even while some ideas dovetail back to earlier pieces, they seem more of another aspect to that idea, something passing beyond time to speak its mind in another way.

The initial interview was lost to a fussy memory card. This phone interview  approximates what transpired.

Trickhouse Podcast: Jan St Werner Interview

Title card music for Yardmeter Editions, NYC.

Sourced from Ray Talley Dancers performance in Brooklyn at a Yardmeter Ed. show in October 2009.

Yardmeter Editions Bumper 01

Title card music for Yardmeter Editions, NYC.

Yardmeter Editions Bumper 02

5:00 - 5:59

3 tenor sax mouthpiece + neck parts: doubled, two of which were pitched down 7 steps, one was down 9

More on this 134th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose music to accompany one minute of a dance video by Cori Marquis” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/07/24/disquiet0134-MusicFromChoreography/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/


Eric Jordan: Disquiet0134 - MusicFromChoreography

Eric Jordan: electronics, processing
Renee Whipple: field recording

Entre Otras

Long After Dinner is Done 2 (W.I.P.)

Edit of Original Soundtrack for The Importance of Being Amber (2012)
Main Theme/Interviews/To Dream of Woods/A Return to Amber

Eric Jordan: sampler, piano, field recordings, compositions
Fiona Petra: violin
Miles Donovan: harp, viola

The Importance of Being Amber

The Importance of Being Amber OST (Edit)

Edit of a vocal composition
Kelsey McClure: vocals
Eric Jordan: percussion, field recordings, processing

A Tone Poem for Unknown Proximity (Edit)

Soundtrack to a painting by Shelton Walsmith (NYC)

Eric Jordan: electronics

sw frame rate

Frames 11 & Forgotten (W.I.P.)

Disc Jockey Babywipe - Mixed at Speck’s Records & Tapes, Portland, OR 
July Sixteen, Two-Thousand and Seventeen 

*Ravi Shankar - Raga Simhendra - Three Ragas
*Cummi Flu - J - Z
*Faust - Knochentanz - 71 Minutes
*Jodlerkleb Thun - Alpufzug - Brass Pins and Match Heads: International 78s
*BS 2000 - We Are BS2000 - BS 2000
*Black Manual - Mordendo Cut Hands Remix - Mordendo Remixed
*Liquid Liquid - Cavern - Optimo
*His Name is Alive - Loin Des Sambas - Friendly Science Enregisterments 02
*Lost Lockets - Houdini - Lost Lockets
*Sceamin’ Jay Hawkins and the Chicken Hawks - I Hear Voices - I Hear Voices
*Marti Brom & Her Jet Tones - Wicked White Lies - Mean!
*Beck - Steve Threw Up - Steve Threw Up
*Brigitte Fontaine, Areski, avec Art Ensemble of Chicago - Comme a la Radio - Comme a la Radio 
*Mouse on Mars feat. Laetitia Sadier and Mary Hansen - Schnick Schnack Part 2 - BBC Sessions
*Jan St. Werner, John Colpitts, & Andrew Barker - Enigmatic Whisper - Printed Cinema #17
* Cummi Flu/Raz Ohara - Herbal - Y
*Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Rocket Number Nine - Rocket Number Nine
*His Name is Alive - Red Haired Girl - Ft. Lake
*This Mortal Coil - Not Me - It’ll End in Tears
*Wire - Advantage in Height - Snakedrill
*LiLiPUT - Ü - Kleenex/LiLiPUT
*Baleine 3000 - Fa Nal - Tour Manager E.P.
*Wendy & Carl - Program - Electronic Evocations Cavern of Anti-Matter - *Hi-Hats Bring the Hiss - Void Beats/Invocation Trex
*Faust - J’ai Mal Aux Dents - 71 Minutes
*Bauhaus - In Fear of Fear - Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape
* Scratch Acid - Cannibal - Scratch Acid
* Krzysztof Penderecki - Wymiary Czasu I Ciszy - Kosmogonia

Disc Jockey Babywipe Selects

At Speck's Records & Tapes - July Sixteen, Two-Thousand & Seventeen

Recorded 2006 | Forest Grove, OR and Austin, TX.
Mastered 2018 | Portland, OR
Teaser edit 2018 | Fredericksburg, TX

Eric Jordan | electronics, processing, mixing, mastering
Raphael Umscheid | electronics

Released into this Universe on Variable Rate| Feb 14, 2018
http://variablerate.bandcamp.com/album/mort-spastic-magic