embral
Tag: experimental music
0 New embral live release
When embral (Adam Holquist and I) went on the road last November, our intention was to play no existing music, and to essentially treat the tour as a mobile R&D lab for the next studio release, recording every night and seeing which bits began to take shape.
This is not the next studio release. This is a ‘calling card’. It gives some hints at where the new music is heading, without (we hope) giving away too much.
Speaking of “the next studio release”, the music for the new studio release has been recorded and I’m in the process of mixing and mastering it. The plan is to get the music out in the Fall with a support tour in November.
In the mean time, enjoy a very cold night in Kansas City.
THIS WAY FORWARD:
0 Faux Pas Quartet Final Recordings Part 1
After 9 years, Faux Pas Quartet is coming to an end. This is Part 1 of our final recordings.
0 D. Miñoza & dRachEmUsiK at Elder Brew tonight.
D. Miñoza & dRachEmUsiK will be at Elder Brew tonight.
12-14-2017, 8pm, 24 6th St., Bristol, TN
Guitarist D.Miñoza https://dminoza.wordpress.com/ is a sound artist working primarily in the areas of drone, noise, minimalism and free improvisation.
“Deep, majestic sound design combines with eerie drones and what I can only describe as esoteric melodies, forming a moody yet beautiful sonic melange.”
-Darrel Burgan (StillStream Net Radio)
dRachEmUsiK http://drachemusik.com/
dRachEmUsiK combines a plethora of nuanced techniques in order to create groovy and meditative soundscapes; giving structure to improvisation.
This style manifests itself into an organic and natural composition of a free flowing design resulting in improvisations and structured pieces ranging from ambient to glitch-groove, noise to nujazz.
0 dRachEmUsiK & D. Miñoza tonight at Playground Productions
dRachEmUsiK and D. Miñoza tonight at Playground Productions dRachEmUsiK and D. Miñoza tonight at Playground Productions, Indpls., IN
D. Miñoza & dRachEmUsiK will kick off a joint tour of the mid-west and east coast at Playground Productions.
7pm, All ages, $5 at the door, Beer & Wine available with ID.
Playground Productions, 5529 Bonna Ave Ste 10, Indianapolis, 46219
Guitarist D.Miñoza https://dminoza.wordpress.com/ is a sound artist working primarily in the areas of drone, noise, minimalism and free improvisation.
“Deep, majestic sound design combines with eerie drones and what I can only describe as esoteric melodies, forming a moody yet beautiful sonic melange.”
-Darrel Burgan (StillStream Net Radio)
dRachEmUsiK http://drachemusik.com/
dRachEmUsiK combines a plethora of nuanced techniques in order to create groovy and meditative soundscapes; giving structure to improvisation.
This style manifests itself into an organic and natural composition of a free flowing design resulting in improvisations and structured pieces ranging from ambient to glitch-groove, noise to nujazz.
with video projections by
Pandas Throwing Rainbow Stars
0 Upcoming dRachEmUsiK shows with D. Miñoza
December 9th thru December 17th I’ll be on the road doing some solo dRachEmUsiK shows with my friend Guitarist Dan Miñoza. Dan is doing some wonderful Dark Ambient Soundscapes for Guitar and Electronics.
Hope you can make it out to one of performances.
Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones!
Dates listed below. Go here for details and to RSVP.
0 Two new Live dRachEmUsiK Releases
Downloads are available here
You may order the physical CD’s here
dRachEmUsiK
The last 6 years have been all about live improvisation for me. I finally came to the realization I will never take the time to recreate studio versions of the music.
Musically, I’m changing directions and it was important to document the period between 2011-2017. The plan is two release Vol. 3 & 4 in March. The recordings are unedited. Download includes album art, formatted and suitable for CD creation.
The music is free to download. Please consider making a donation.
Downloads are available here
You may order the physical CD’s here
As always, thanks for your support!
0 Week 1 of new dRachEmUsiK music
Today marks the end of the first week of actual work on the new dRachEmUsiK release. I’ve been contemplating this music and improvising for almost a year and it’s exciting to actually begin the process of bringing it to life.
Right now it’s all about core sound design for the instruments. My primary sources for the sound design are coming from what I call my “textural workstation” (first image below) which consists of four MarSynths, horndog, MFOS Sound Lab, and Koma electroacoustic field kit and my live performance rig (second image). It’s been slow going but that’s to be expected.
The sound design and instrumentation is particularly challenging for this music because I’m creating the music for real time, multi-speaker performance consisting of 16 discreet channels and 16 speakers. So I’m bouncing back and forth between sound design, composition and experimenting with the arrangement of speakers, routing and instrument placement within the speaker array.
More as things progress. Hope to have some audio examples next week.
Peace
0 Bob Bucko Jr. w/ dRachEmUsiK & Adam Riviere Live in Indianapolis, Oct. 5th
Bob Bucko Jr. w/ dRachEmUsiK & Adam Riviere Live in Indianapolis Oct. 5th
Bob Bucko Jr. Absolute Endings Tour with dRachEmUsiK and Adam Riviere
Wednesday, October 5th
Playground Productions, 5529 Bonna Ave. Ste 10
Indianapolis, IN 46219
Doors at 6:30
Music 7-10
All Ages, Cover $5.00
0 Music for the Tacopocalypse
Tacopocalypse - Live improvisations by urbster1, dRachEmUsiK, onewyaness, jmtta
SOMEHOW I figured now was a good time to get the Tacopocalypse music out into the universe.
Tacopocalypse was recorded on 5-19-2012 at Bela Dubby in Lakewood, OH. Bela Dubby was a wonderful art, music, food venue that closed the day after this recording. It was replaced by a Taco place. At some point during the night the closing of Bela Dubby was referred to as The Tacopocalypse.
The two tracks on the release are group improvisations done by Aaron Urbanski aka urbster1, Adam Holquist aka onewayness, Charles Shriner aka dRachEmUsiK and Jason Breitigan aka jmtta.
This is a free download.
New Release: Mirrors to the Bonfire
onewayness + dRachEmUsiK Mirrors to the Bonfire Release Date: 08.29. 2016 onomastic records | MCSD NetLabel
onewayness + dRachEmUsiK
Mirrors to the Bonfire
Release Date: 08.29. 2016 onomastic records | MCSD NetLabel
Mirrors to the Bonfire, the latest collaboration from the critically acclaimed duo of onewayness (Adam Holquist/Erie, PA) and dRachEmUsiK (Charles Shriner/Indianapolis, IN), replaces the exuberance and emotional optimism of their last full-length, 2014’s Immeasurable, with emotional ambiguity and complexity, swapping comfort and joy for unsettling, but ultimately rewarding, drama and melancholy.
Mirrors to the Bonfire is a series of meditations on human feedback and the powers of interpersonal interaction. The three long tracks sculpt a polished narrative of conflict and resolution that cycles in and out of warm nostalgia and dark, uncharted territory. Dark analog drones and electroacoustic concrète clatter give way to extended melodic duo explorations for acoustic guitar & electronic wind instrument.
Mirrors to the Bonfire is available as a physical CD or digital download from onomastic records and MCSD NetLabel
