Andy is musician, photographer, and scientist — usually not all at the same time. He travels the spaceways, ranging from acoustic guitar improvisation to musique concrete constructions, with many points non between.
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Where the stars are different
New sounds, assemblages, meanderings joined, linked, merged, and otherwise evolved June to September 2020. An ode to being able to be distant elsewheres; a distillation of the now as it emerged.
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o(w)n
Assembled at home during the (ongoing) duration: box table, home decor, mallets, processing. Also available on Where the stars are different.
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Three for
All acoustic guitars, no overdubs, only live flubs, each created with someone in mind. Recorded with a Santa Cruz 000 and Collings Baritone.
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Remember the Details
Keyboard pieces: pensive, simple, spates of melodic wandering, capturing a time and place with the worn roundness of memory.
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Non between
Two pieces. The first, "Non So,"" inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni film L'Eclisse. The second, "Between," inspired by that between state of being as one transits through airports thousands of miles and many time zones away from home. Original releases on and/OAR, Translations Of Opacity - For Michelangelo Antonioni and Room40, Airport Symphony.
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Imagining a different door
Re-imagined re-assembled across the years: 2020 arrangement of ambient sounds against 2011 paper strip 'programmed' music box, glass jars, and straw.
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(the danger of) everyday objects
Cambridge 2010. a long form piece finally revisited and sorted during 2020 quarantine: dishrack, magnetic spoons, 4 track cassette manipulations, BugBrand boxes, Ngoni, processing, room feedback, see what you hear.
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Gyre
Single-take string(s) of consciousness improvisations of one sort or the other. Played on various acoustics, captured in progress on a Zoom handheld at various times of day with sundry domestic accompaniment.
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Proximity
From a cold, windy, winter's night downstairs in the house in Cambridge. EM fields, sine wave, and post box: ghosts at play.
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For Wenchuan
"Night train to Xi'an," 2008-2020: hulusi, sheng, buddha machine, hydrophones, water-filled glass jars, metal dishrack, field recordings (Zhengzhou train station; overnight train from Zhengzhou to Xi'an; community performance next to Xi'an city wall). "For Wenchuan," 2008-2010: piano, visual score derived from Sichuan Wenchuan earthquake gravity wave tracings, VOA broadcast edits — in remembrance. Originally released on a 2011 split cassette from Arachnidiscs.
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Before knowing remembers
Acoustic guitar, piano, sugudu, shortwave radio, lapsteel, computer. Field recordings: Singapore; Hounslow, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK; Xinxiang, Shenzhen, Lijiang, Xi'an, China; Tokyo, Japan; Koto Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Waynesville, NC, US. Hydrophone recordings River Cam.
Assembled and composed December 2009-June 2011, Cambridge UK. Originally released on Tape Drift Records in 2012.
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Ophelia Wanders
Acoustic guitars, wind chimes, field recordings: improvisations recorded as the particular notion emerged together with the attendant sounds of place and time, 2004-2007 whilst visiting my folks in Waynesville NC.
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Waiting for Oscar
Assembled from electric guitar, tapes, acoustic guitar, processing, and recordings of wee heartbeats - 2010, the night before the early morning of.
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Wrack
Oud improvisations, reactions, and abstractions. Recorded August to September 2007 in Cambridge, UK; originally released on Sloow Tapes in 2008.
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Did you find it?
Two long form pieces - "Did you find it?" a pulsing analogue tapes lapsteel journey; whilst "Sine qua non" burns down guitar, laud and buddha machine. Recorded in Cambridge UK. Originally released on Earjerk records on cassette back in 2008.
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Refusing the Sirens
A journey of sorts — from hammered, bowed, and plucked Trés, through a pure acoustic improvisation, a long-form ode to that disconnected, somnambulant jet-lag state with voice, ending with prepared acoustic guitars, bowls and bells. See what you hear...
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Nine Seeds
Originally released as a split cassette on Folkwaste records, perhaps circa 2010. Recorded in Cambridge, UK, Yunnan, China and mixed/assembled in Cambridge, UK, in 2009.
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Deadman's Bell
ship's bell ('liberated' by my grandfather as a teenager from Capt. Deadman's steamboat, Black River, Point Caswell, NC late 1800's), 4 track cassette recorder, electric guitar, melodica, field recordings, telephone, erhu, ipod, battery-powered ipod speaker, empty Chinese biscuit tin, acoustic feedback, contact mic, cd player, lap steel guitar, processing
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Like twilight bleeding
Single take acoustic guitars, ebow, 4-track cassette, recorded three late evenings downstairs in the house in Cambridge UK September and December 2006. Originally released on New American Folk Hero, way back in 2007.
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