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Porch Swing Orchestra Podcastno.226 | Ziggy Ice Plant + Site Reading: Marfa, TexasOn today’s pod, we are celebrating PSO’s first solo art show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York City with a listen to Side B of the lathe cut LP produced in a limited edition of 20 for the show. Side A includes eight of the nine past PSO pieces whose images are framed, and Side B is a suite of 4 movements recorded among trains and the dust of the famous West Texas town of Marfa.The second movement was featured on porchswingorchestra.org as PSO no.226, Ziggy Ice Plant, Marfa, Texas, March 13, 2024.The...2024-05-2621 min
Porch Swing Orchestra PodcastVAST IS THE SEA: A CONVERSATION WITH MARK MENJIVARThis week I spoke with Mark Menjivar. This episode continues our series of conversations with artists participating in VAST IS THE SEA, a series curated by @porchswingorchestra, consisting of 8 presentations from artists whose diverse works are united by their explorations of images, sound, and community presented by Co-Lab projects in Austin, Texas. Mark will present his work at 7pm on Saturday, January 27Each event is ticketed separately. You can purchase tickets on a sliding scale starting at $5 at https://www.co-labprojects.org/Mark Menjívar is a San Antonio-based artist and Assoc...2024-01-2533 min
Porch Swing Orchestra Podcastno.219 | Prelude to Lost PinesThis week’s PSO features a live recording new piece we opened with in our performance at the Turrell Skyspace. Paul Stautinger joined me and added a ton of color and melody, playing both finger-picked intricacies and sweeping tonalites made with an E-bow. Mark Menjivar provided an array of bird songs and sounds processed through a modular synthesizer. On the POD, I talked to Mark about the archive of field recordings he (re)activated for this performance and his other myriad projects and practices. Among other topics, we discuss the distinctions between sound and song, the deep po...2023-10-3038 min
Porch Swing Orchestra Podcastno.218 | Practice Makes PracticePSO no.218 is a 6-minute preview taken from me and Paul’s preparation for our hour-long performance at the James Turrell Skyspace on the UT campus on Sunday, October 15th beginning around 6. The event is fully booked, but there is a standby policy that you can read about on the Landmarks James Turrell web page. Artist and PSO collaborator Mark Menjivar will join Paul and me and play processed field recordings sourced from the Texas Bird Sound Library, a treasure trove of recordings he discovered during his time as a visiting artist at Sam Houston State University. Inc...2023-10-1126 min
Porch Swing Orchestra Podcastno.212 | Quilted Daze and DelaysThis episode begins with the newest PSO, no.212, which was recorded in the traditional manner on my porch but with a twist. After spending some time in Mark Menjivar’s studio talking about field recordings, bird calls, archives, innumerable sound gadgets, and exciting new projects, Mark lent me a curious piece of sound hardware crafted by Brooklyn-based electronic savants Critter & Guitari, the Organelle M. Thanks, Mark! You can use the Organelle to make beats, as a synthesizer, or to process sound, which is what I did. For this week’s piece, I routed the audio recorded on the...2023-07-0523 min