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sacro sanct
by Matt Smiley
Colorado
March 18, 2020
a multi-tracked recording of electro-acoustic sounds mixed in with field recordings, circuit bent objects, cassette tapes and other misc. noises.
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Matt Smiley is a bassist, composer, and educator from Staunton, Virginia, now residing in northern Colorado. In his work as a performer and a composer, Smiley focuses on developing systems and modes of playing at the nexus of composition and improvisation that reference elements of established American vernacular and experimental music traditions, while simultaneously and idiosyncratically deviating from them. His multifaceted and studied approach to both the bass and composition enable an adroit facility in both idiomatic and non-idiomatic settings. Since moving to Colorado, Smiley has worked with a number of diverse and prominent performers and composers including Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Stephen Drury, Jean-Claude Risset, Terrell Stafford, and Greg Osby. In addition to his rigorous performance schedule, he teaches at both Denver School of the Arts Jazz Camp and The Gift of Jazz, a non-profit focusing on enriching the community through the creation, promotion, and preservation of the art of jazz in the Rocky Mountain Region.
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Dirt is Always the Same
by Scald Hymn
Belchertown, MA
March 25, 2020
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The music of Puerto Rican guitarist and composer Federico Balducci can be described as a mixture of classical and ambient music with unusually intricate harmonies.
federicobalducci7.bandcamp.com
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slow karaoke
by clay b. ardito
New York NY USA
April 2020
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karaoke is usually a social activity, usually done at a bar, and usually with friends, often intoxicated. but now, is this surrealist reality, many of us have taken to doing karaoke at home alone, or with the people we live with. i personally have taken this opportunity to practice songs that are challenging and i would never have the nerve to do in front of strangers or my friends. these are mostly slow songs, sung by particularly talented vocalists, which i am not. i recorded some of these songs, and, although i practiced them a lot, they are full of mistakes and notes that i just cant possibly reach. so here they are things i am certainly embarrassed by but also nothing has any meaning anymore so, wth.
Instagram: @chain.twyler
Boot Struck + siren
by Chain Twyler
New York NY, USA
March - May, 2020
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country/noise/pop project by clay ardito
Instagram: @chain.twyler