On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.
This week, all live performances:
▰ Andrew Tasselmyer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) gets quietly catastrophic with this dubby seven-minute live piece:
▰ A full hour-long set from synth legend Suzanne Ciani (Bolinas, California), just uploaded, but recorded last April in Milan. It goes everywhere — wispy space music, Tron-style pulse-raising beats, utter chaos. It’s something else.
▰ Jamuary — that’s not a spelling error — is the gift that keeps on giving, as electronic musicians upload work throughout the first month of the year, like this percolating set of looped elements from lap steel guitar, by Magnetic Loops of Bristol, UK:
