Attorneys General (featured players: Shane Parish, Zoh Amba, and Raven Bauer Durham)

Attorneys General is a project led by Matthew Byars of Baltimore, MD. A formative experience for Byars as a listener was hearing the work of soundman Martin Swope of Mission of Burma on their seminal 1985 live record, The Horrible Truth About Burma, in which Swope, using a reel-to-reel tape machine, captured, looped, manipulated, and destroyed elements of the band’s sound in spontaneous and unexpected ways. Byars has adapted this approach to having three-four people (different players every time, mostly) generate utterly improvised sound through a mixing board he controls, which allows him to capture, loop, manipulate, and destroy the sounds they create using a TC Electronic Ditto Looper, a Korg Kaoss Pad, a Korg Mini Kaoss Pad, and a TC Electronic The Prophet Digital Delay. Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous, but the inherent risk involved is, ultimately, the point. Players for this event were remote and connected with Matthew via an Internet connection, along with all accompanying unintended digital artifacts, dropouts, and hiss.
Players for this session were, in order (each played for a half-hour):
-Raven Bauer Durham (Alexandria, VA)
-Shane Parish (Athens, GA)
-Zoh Amba (NYC)
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Attorneys General (featured players: Shane Parish, Zoh Amba, and Raven Bauer Durham) 10.8.23 2354pm of course... more noise, please...

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You might this one I did better--much noisier: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWTcomeEa9GCfpY