Checking In

This weekend has been great so far. I have confirmed that the rather unique release of DJ Responsibility's Formalism will occur this April. I'll be scouting locations for an installation tomorrow and starting to write some press releases. The album is seven tracks long and features a few local musicians: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Nathan Hall, Kerrith Livengood, Ben Harris, and Brandon Masterman. Those last four + me also make up Vocal Assembly, who has a modified version of a piece called "Hard Music" on the album. I'll be posting more info on this project along with artwork and such soon. It will be a pretty unique release - not sure of any kind of official release show - but at the moment, you need to be in Pittsburgh to hear it, specifically, the Oakland branch of the Carnegie Library.

Other projects on the horizon include a 7" with my good friend Will Dyar. We're remaking one of my favorite tunes from 2005, "In Hell" and adding a new b-side, "Gentle In". Possibly a bit more too.

And Daryl Fleming and I are halfway through the mix of a new record where Daryl duets with violinist and vocalist Megan Williams. That should be out sometime this year. There are some really great pieces on there, including the darkest, most forked version of "America, the Beautiful" that I've ever heard.

To cap off this post, here are 25 randomized tunes from the ol' iTunes:

1. Yeasayer - Grizelda

2. DBLD - Fourteen

3. Fred Van Hove - Boven Alle Verdenking Verheven (Alfons)

4. Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight

5. Led Zeppelin - I Can't Quit You Baby

6. Matthew Shipp - Pulse Form

7. Conlon Nancarrow - Study No. 34

8. Blood, Sweat, and Tears - My Old Lady

9. Madvillian - Rhinestone Cowboy

10. Charles Mingus - Los Mariachis (The Street Musicians)

11. Paul Giger - Tropus

12. Vocal Assembly - Individual Burdens

13. Rufus Wainwright - Want

14. Moovers - Someone to Fulfill My Needs

15. Susan Ibarra Trio - A Glimpse

16. Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Fire and Rain

17. DJ Responsibility - As In Form

18. MF Doom - More Rhymin'

19. Josh Berman - Db

20. Genesis - The Cinema Show

21. Can - Bring Me Coffee or Tea

22. Zs - Mimesis

23. St. Vincent - The Strangers

24. The Frame Quartet - M.E.S. (for Merce Cunningham)

25. My Morning Jacket - Anytime