Pattern Studies Radio

Episode 10: Hey Exit

erik@hecanjog.com — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500

This is episode ten of Pattern Studies Radio. I spoke with Brendan Landis AKA Hey Exit in the winter of 2015 and by the time I had made a pass at editing the episode together, he’d launched a thousand more musical ships into the world, so we spoke again. Then, I went back and re-recorded my half of the first interview while walking through the neighborhood near my studio and edited together an interview that never took place – the words are the same, though in a few places there are fewer words. After all that I didn’t use any of the follow-up interview because the first part just felt self-contained I guess. There is plenty of music though.

Links from the episode:

Hey Exit

Hey Exit on Bandcamp

Episode 9: Grandma Sparrow

erik@hecanjog.com — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600

This is episode nine of Pattern Studies Radio. This week I spoke with Joe Westerlund AKA Grandma Sparrow about his work with tape and concrete sound, the many stages of the Grandma Sparrow project - a psychedelic pseudo-children’s music band for adults - and his forthcoming Mojave Interlude project, a 10-years-in-the-making concrete audio film.

Links from the episode:

Grandma Sparrow at Spacebomb Records

Grandma Sparrow at tumblr

Performance video from Alverno Presents

Ask Grandma Sparrow, Episode No.2 - “Why Sonically, Of Course!”

Sounds of the South performance excerpt

Anrold Dreyblatt & Megafaun

Arnold Dreyblatt’s tuning system

Episode 8: Riley Lake

erik@hecanjog.com — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600

This is episode eight of Pattern Studies Radio. This week I talked to Will Charles Mitchell (AKA Riley Lake) about geometric harmony, the function of club music, his studio process (lots of gear talk!) and the music-first ego-last philosophy behind his new Liquid City Motors project.

RIP Pepper the cat.

Links from the episode:

Riley Lake on Bandcamp

The Geometry of Musical Chords by Dmitri Tymoczko

Tonnetz diagrams

Bok Bok

Crisis by Jam City

Klymaxx’s Meeting In The Ladies Room

Milo’s Things That Happen at Day

Episode 7: Marcus Rubio

erik@hecanjog.com — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600

This is episode seven of Pattern Studies Radio. This week Marcus Rubio AKA More Eaze discusses his poly-idiomatic solo work and extended technique jams with kids.

The interview segment contains a sample from Andrew Weathers’ Littlefield album on Full Spectrum records.

Links from the episode:

Kendra Steiner Editions

More Eaze’s Fine

More Eaze on Bandcamp

Marcus Rubio on Bandcamp

Episode 6: Derek Piotr

erik@hecanjog.com — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600

This is episode six of Pattern Studies Radio. This week Derek Piotr joins me to discuss his work with microsound and studio process, writing for woodwinds, and his upcoming drone album.

Links from the episode:

Wes Tank’s To Be Continued radio show on Riverwest Radio

Dust Hum and Conifers by Derek Piotr are available to download here

Resonance Extra which will premiere Derek’s new album plus much more in a 2 hour mix coming in December

Photo by Nick Fitzpatrick

Episode 5

erik@hecanjog.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600

This is episode five of Pattern Studies Radio. This week’s topics include ASMR, the sensuality of lowercase audio, and microsound.

Links from the episode:

May Waver’s Cathexis

Daniel Blinkhorn’s frostbYte project

Steve Roden’s Forms of Paper

Wire article quoting Bernhard Gunter’s “music like a tree” concept

Untitled I/92 from Bernhard Gunter’s Un Peu De Neige Salie

Episode 4

erik@hecanjog.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600

This is episode four of pattern studies radio. This episode gives a short recap of the process behind the last episode and demos some new pippi generators.

Links from the episode:

Fredo Viola’s The Turn

Liam O’Brien’s Faithless Followers

Episode 3

erik@hecanjog.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600

This is episode three of pattern studies radio. This episode was scripted with chance operations. Topics include: Pippi, stochastic synthesis, pulsar synthesis, chance operations.

Links from the episode:

Pippi, my computer music system

John Cage & David Tudor’s Indeterminacy

Lejaren Hiller’s Illiac Suite

Sergio Luque’s Stochastic Synthesis - Origins and Extensions