Releases

Luke Martin and LCollective - «PRACTICES IN THE IMAGINARY: EACH DAY I MUST THINK OF 20, 50 PEOPLE »

Across eight weeks in the autumn and winter of 2020-2021, a group of friends—separated from one another as a result of the pandemic—performed a simple, shared activity. Using Luke Martin’s elegant score as a guide, Doug Farrand, Assaf Gidron, Rachel Mangold, Teodora Stepančić, and Martin each made concise lists of those individuals—whether living or dead, real or imaginary—with whom they found themselves conversing in their heads. They jotted down names, fragments of memories, locations, and dates. Once each week, they recorded themselves reading the accumulated texts aloud or silently, arranging the lists, and writing new ones. At each new iteration, options were given for reading the lists, making a sustained sound, or remaining silent for each previously completed page. The lists were photographed, and each week’s recordings were subsequently layered to create a palimpsest of voices, silences, memories, and distances. The patient unfolding of these recordings reveals surprising and often beautiful juxtapositions as networks of overlapping influences, mutual friendships, and shared solitudes are delicately traced.

This release includes a book presenting images of each of the lists, the score by Luke Martin that guided the process, and a download code to access the recordings for each of the eight weeks.

Evidence, Boards, Guitars

Three recordings from wintery concerts in December 2018 and January 2020, performed by LCollective as part of the Piano+ concert series at Spectrum NYC

Jesse Greenberg's 'Boards' for fixed pitch resonant metal bars and slowly detuning sine tones

Maya Verlaak's 'Evidence Based' calls for an ensemble to decipher remnants of an unknown piece of music, performed on piano, trumpet, guitars, electronics+

Matt Lau's work for piano and guitars based on correlations between frequencies of letters in words and pitches in music

With Douglas Farrand, Naeemah Maddox, Jesse Greenberg, Rahul Nair, Elliot Simpson, Teodora Stepančić, Assaf Gidron

shared space - electronic

Digital and cassette tape release of the first “shared space” concert at mise-en place, curated by Teodora Stepancic. Electronic music pieces by Douglas Farrand, Sohrab Motabar, Cindy Giron, Assaf Gidron, Ana Gnjatović, and Sam Sfirri.

Tape artifacts from John Lely - All About The Piano

Tape artifacts generated from a performance of John Lely's "All About The Piano" in Brooklyn NY on April 13th 2018 by Douglas Farrand, Assaf Gidron, Jesse Greenberg, and Teodora Stepančić.

Individually dubbed cassette tape with dry leaf.