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APPALACHIAN VORTEX TOUR Album

I am very excited to share this album I made with Andrei Jay, titled: APPALACHIAN VORTEX TOUR. Near the end of summer, we went on a camping road trip through the Appalachians in search of caves, hollows, and other basins of vortex energy in the forest. I brought my field recorder and my shortwave radio, and Andrei brought two Volca FM synthesizers, and we recorded a series of jams at various locations along the way. We were able to pick up electromagnetic interference within the shortwave bands from the built-in amplifier circuits in the Volcas, making the radio act as a kind of extra amplifier which added unique distortions and textures.

The sounds of the environment also became part of the recordings, so you can hear crickets, running water, wind, other humans, natural reverb of stone and metal, and the spatialized presence of the built-in speakers of the volcas, intertwined with signals drifting in and out from shortwave broadcasts.

The album art, a map of the vortexes we toured, was drawn electronically and then plotted with a robotic drawing machine in the expanded media department at Alfred University.

🔈 Listen to the album: Bandcamp

A waterfall in Appalachia Portable music equipment on a picnic blanket

Télépresence III

On June 1, we held the third edition of Télépresence at La Lumière's collective space in Montreal. It was so lovely to hang with my fellow video artists, and to perform as 1/2 of Fugitive Dream Recovery during the evening's a/v show. Here are some photos from people's setups during the tabling portion, as well as the performances.

Rob Feulner's tabling setup Fugitive Dream Recovery's tabling setup Fako Andro's tabling setup Cskonopka's tabling setup Cskonopka performance Fugitive Dream Recovery performance Sid Frank + Rob Feulner performance Le Désert Mauve performance

Performance at 6 Unusual A/V Sets

On Friday, March 22, I did a set at Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn, along with 5 other amazing solo a/v acts. This was an exciting show for me because it brought together a group of artists who each have a unique approach to audiovisual performance. The show was co-organized by all the performers around a visit from Helsinki-based artist and educator Derek Holzer.

Photo of me performing My performance