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Listening back to a 2005 sound project at the Headlands Center for the Arts
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Video Premiere of “The Workbench”
Plus: Bandcamp Friday & Early Press
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Out Today: The Workbench
A new EP called The Workbench is out today, on Winesap Records. It is a digital-only release, and you can listen to it here. I’ve already written about…
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2023 Year In Review
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"The Workbench" — A Sonic Portrait of My Father
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Video Premiere of “The Workbench”
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Watch Now: Live From Thomas Merton’s Hermitage
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Out Today: The Workbench
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"The Star-Faced One" at 10 Years
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2023 Year In Review
I wake up most days thinking, I haven’t done anything, I haven’t done enough, what am I doing with my life?, and so on. I have a hunch that we all do…
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"The Workbench" Premieres Tonight and This Week
In Columbus, Athens, and New York City
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"The Workbench" — A Sonic Portrait of My Father
Premieres next Tuesday, November 7
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On “Rawhead & Bloodybones”
Plus: A Solo Show This Thursday
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"The Star-Faced One" at 10 Years
Looking back to the origins of a special project
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Watch Now: Live From Thomas Merton’s Hermitage
See the full band performing “Words and Silences” in November, 2022
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"Shawnee Revisited" at Errant Sound in Berlin
Opening tomorrow, Tuesday June 20
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Sound Is Magic
Sound Is Magic
On sound and music and how they touch us deeply. Open and curious writing and recordings exploring archives, place, memory, myth, and the radical power of listening.
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