Billy Gomberg Exclusive

Really enjoying this fresh mix installation presented by the talented Billy Gomberg focusing on experimental and abstract genres…

This mix traces a range of the contemporary forms of music which interest and inspire me. I am looking to weave between styles and genres (a gap that sometimes is awfully narrow), following a thread of acoustic sensibility that shifts from piece to piece, whether or not there is great difference or similarity from moment to moment depends on perspective. This is a collection of tactile music, rendered by hand, tape, machines real and virtual, forced into motion by these musicians. – Billy

The image is from mpld’s performance w/Bryan Eubanks.

Track List:

• “Remodelled LI” / Shinkei + Mise_En_Scene / Scytale (mAtter)
• “Square (excerpt)” / Keith Rowe + Sachiko M / Contact (Erstwhile)
• “Backseat Manager Part 1″ / Sebastien Roux + Sogar / Rücksitz (Tsuku Boshi)
• “Malmö (excerpt)” / Tetuzi Akiyama, Erik Carlsson, Toshimaru Nakamura & Henrik Olsson / In Search Of Wild Tulips (BombaxBombax)
• “Repetition is Continuous” / John Davis / There’s Always Tomorrow (Students of Decay)
• “Pianobguitar” / Mou, lips! / Untree (mOAR)
• “Cloud Spotting” / Offthesky / Creek Caught Fire (The Land Of)
• “Illusionen” / Burkhard Stangl + Kai Fagaschinski / Musik – Ein Porträt in Sehnsucht (Erstwhile)
• Track 3 / Robbie Lee / Three Constellations (No Cat Records)
• “Lucy Song” / Jason Lescalleet + Graham Lambkin / The Breadwinner (Erstwhile)
• “Sup Pralad” / Taiga Remains / Beneath The Weeping Beeches (Ekhein)
• “Part 2: Indentions on Summits of Hands (excerpt)” / Celer / Close Proximity and the Unhindered Care-All (Sentient Recognition Archive)
• Track 3 / Stephen Vitiello / Listening To Donald Judd (Sub Rosa)
• “June 10, 2008 (excerpt)” / Kenneth Kirschner / Filaments & Voids (12k)
• “Babys Breath (Original)” / Lovesliescrushing / Girl Echo Suns Veils (Projekt)
• “Vista (excerpt)” / Asher + Jason Kahn / Vista (and/OAR)
• “091114-ff4 (excerpt)” / Bryan Eubanks + MPLD / http://fotofono.net
• Live at Gallery Homeland, Portland OR (excerpt) / Anne Guthrie, Richard Kamerman + Kelvin Pittman / unreleased

About the artist:

Billy Gomberg lives and works in Brooklyn NY. His studio practice incorporates analog synthesis, digital treatments, acoustic recordings and custom programming that gives rise to electronic sound caught gazing at its own physicality, acoustics in love with their own abstraction. Formed from equal parts of futuristic electronics, exacting improvisation and sensual spaces, his CDs Comme (mOAR), Days (The Land Of) and Flyover Sound (Experimedia, a collaboration with Offthesky) have all been met with fascination and surprise.

Billy has exhibited or performed in New York, Boston, Providence, London, Lisbon, Graz, Zurich and elsewhere. August 2009 saw the successful west coast tour of Delicate Sen, the trio of Billy Gomberg, Anne Guthrie, and Richard Kamerman. A committed improvisor, he performs solo, w/Anne Guthrie (as Fraufraulein), w/Richard Kamerman (sometimes as Other Vultures), in trio w/Joshue Ott & Robert Dick.

Make sure to read the recent interview Billy did with Tokafi magazine here

www.myspace.com/billygomberg
www.fraufraulein.com