Shifting Gears

For the first part of my night of music for the upcoming Black Lab New Music Festival on Thursday Sep. 12 I am offering a realignment of the Phonologotronic.  

I am pleased to bring Nick Howell (trumpet), Jason Smith (drums), and Lane Garner (guitar) into the fold on.  The Future Dr. is still with us, laying down the low-end. We are now a quintet and I will focus more on alto.  I have dug through my vaults to bring forth a wide array of musics.  From 2 of my oldest tunes to a couple birthed specifically for this instrumentation, I am excited about the debut performance of this band.  

For the second half of my performance night Brad Van Wick and I are going to conduct an experiment upon any willing volunteers in the audience as we perform as Mnemosyne Duo.  There will be at least 3 ways you can participate in the "experimence" (a portmanteau of experience and experiment), More to come as I get details hammered out with all of the special guests.  

If you are adventuresome and willing to talk a bit about what you experience to us please come and help us figure out some physio-psycho-electro-acoustic-magic.  

Cast of Characters

 The Future Dr.

 Kid Voracios

Phonologotron


We got literary last Saturday thanks to some help from Will Leathem and company at Prospero's Uptown.   Not too many people came out, but we smashed into the silence nonetheless.

We can't all rule the world because the gravity of the situation is prohibitive.

I'll have more selections as I peruse them.  Please enjoy.  And if you do the like, like us on Book of Faces

Rehearsal recording.

It has been very useful of late to be recording our rehearsals and listening back to them.  Memory plays such an important role in how we become better as a group.  Remembering what we've done and being able to recast those elements every time in a new light is very important to me.  I don't particularly remember at the time we had rehearsal feeling particularly good about this run through, but, listening to it again, I can hear that I've been practicing, but still need to work more on it. 

Anyway, here is the link.  

I would love to hear comments from you readers who do happen upon here.  Thanks. 

Teasers Last

The improv turned into one of my favorite songs ever.  I wont tell you what it is, I'd rather like you to have the lightbulb go off.  Thank for listening, enjoy.

Teasers III

This one is how we warmed up that night for rehearsal.  Completely improvised

Teasers II

I loved this video as a teenager.  

Doesn't it make for such a great trio song?   The most challenging thing about a trio is that everyone needs to have a hand on the ball.  This of course is what makes playing in a trio so rewarding.

Teasers

These come from a recent rehearsal.  Andrew might be new to some of you, but as you can see, he is an excellent choice.  Clem is such a brilliant amazing musician that his gravitation towards more and ever different project was inevitable, but this new formation has been good for me.   We play at the Take Five Coffee + Bar  on January 18th.   Please join us.  Now for a flyer and some teasers.

The thing I like best about having this band is that we talk about what we've done, or what we're going to attempt, and continue that communication while we play.  Together the arrangements that we come up with for our repertoire are sometimes magical.