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Finished up a long-paused project, 12 Minute Travelogues, which started out, back in 2008, as a podcast of ambient recordings composed on the road, in mountain cabins, laundromats, motel rooms, and other liminal spaces. Available on Bandcamp at a set-your-own-price level, and incorporates twelve twelve-minute ambient soundtracks to imaginary films. Best with headphones, or playing quietly in the background.
—Joe
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Kantoendrato streaming
Streaming tonight—Joe B. Wall, aka Kantoendrato.
If you want to see me making instrumental manoeuvres in the dark, plus tune in to my short set tonight at 8:30PM on Nick’s International Virtual Garage! It’ll be slow and quiet—the perfect way to wind down for a three-day weekend!
Visit Nick’s International Virtual Garage to watch and listen.
Was delighted to play a streaming set on Nick’s International Virtual Garage, a fantastic channel where electro-acoustic performers play in the diasporan space we’ve been working in throughout the pandemic (and thanks, Nick, for inviting me!).
I did an hour set of music and stories, with a top-down video showing my instruments as I improvised my set, after which I edited and mastered an album version of the set, which is available via Bandcamp:
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I Skugga (In the Shade)
Was inspired by the beautiful weather today and sat on the porch to edit some recent material into a collection on Bandcamp, appropriately titled I Skugga, which is Swedish for “in the shade,” since I’m revisiting my college Swedish lessons during the pandemic. It’s an abstract collection of recent ambient experiments and field recordings.
It’s priced from 0 to pay-what-you-will, but I’m content with zero.
It’s a pleasure to share.
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Kantoendrato porch jams 5/30
Novation Bass Station II, Zoom CDR-70, Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man, TC Electronic Hall of Fame, Tascam U-44, iPad 6th-gen running Loopy HD, Zoom H1N
Linnstrument 128, Waldorf Blofeld, Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man, TC Electronic Hall of Fame, TC Electronic Ditto X4, Zoom H1N
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KEvsAB at NEM with TD 2019
Played another joyous live set with alternating.bit at the National Electronics Museum Electronica Fest 2018. Just simple rigs and plenty of well-practiced rapport.
Showed up with my increasingly stable rig (details below) for another run with the Baltimore SDIY Group‘s concerts at the Electric Maid Community Exchange in the Takoma neighborhood of DC (and MD). It’s always a bit of a mystery of what I’ll come up with in these experimental improvisational episodes, and I followed a nice melodic, relaxed modular set from Hovercraft, so I felt like I could delve into slightly glitchier, pulsing, wavelike territory as a counterpoint. I think it came out quite well.
—Joe Wall
[The rig for this set: Novation Bass Station II -> Electro Harmonix Superego+ -> Electro Harmonix Stereo Memory Man w/Hazarai -> Mackie MS-1202 mixer (and Zoom H2 digital recorder) to the PA.]
LISTEN:
© 2018 Joe Belknap Wall, aka Kantoendrato
Played a meditative set in a rainstorm at Electric Maid on Saturday. Simple rig, nothing prerecorded or prepared—just my monosynth and a few pedals, improvising in a great listening room.
Listen:
© 2017 Joe Belknap Wall, aka Kantoendrato