Popular Monitress

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austin ashe a music, not as a vehicle of individual expression, made possible by the historically contingent tools of the present. such a timely project, yet entirely unique: a hint of a music to come. Favorite track: Appalachian Gendy.

michrose This is a real gem, exciting, unexpected, fun, interesting and sounds like a bright day somewhere inside a beehive in 2079. Favorite track: Every Piano.

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1.	Instant Canon 00:20	buy track
2.	Authenticated Krell 03:30	buy track
3.	Appalachian Gendy 02:34	buy track
4.	Lent Foot 03:16 video	buy track
5.	Synaptic Padberg 01:47	buy track
6.	Consensual Tune 00:42	buy track
7.	Motown Electronium 03:39	buy track
8.	Training Lullaby 00:09	buy track
9.	Every Piano 04:55	buy track
10.	Grossi Polyphony 01:57	buy track
11.	Futility Funktionen 00:30	buy track
12.	Simulmakfratra 00:19	buy track
13.	Illiac Ergodos 7! 01:38	buy track
14.	Wurfelspiel 01:15	buy track
15.	Cope By Design 01:15	buy track
16.	Dusthorn Sawpipe 01:16	buy track
17.	Help Desk 01:54	buy track
18.	Thoughtful Refrigerator 06:17	buy track
19.	Popular Monitress 04:50	buy track
20.	Trillionth Riff 07:50	buy track
21.	Leapday Voyager 03:45	buy track

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released February 5, 2021

Voices captured and edited 2015-2020.

Special guests: Mark Hosler - Guitar on “Lent Foot”. Drew Daniel - Rhythm programming on “Every Piano”

Mastered by Thomas Dimuzio. Album artwork by Max Allison.

Thanks to: Evans Hankey (for the loan), Zeena Parkins, Jennifer Walshe, Doug & Max, Seth & Seeta, Drew & Martin, Emma & Méabh and especially my parents.

Like its predecessor ‘Monitress’, this is an album about machine listening. Once again my mobile phones and tablets are running pitch trackers and synth apps, converting the sounds they hear into error-prone melodies. The trackers are solely reflexive — they can’t learn, or remember — but they output sounds of unarbitrary complexity, or — music. But one less defined as a form of self-expression, and more as a model of relationships within society, specifically those relationships being formed between ourselves and our tools.

If the last album focused more on improvisations and abstraction, this time around I prepared more in the way of ‘tunes’ ahead of time before turning them over to the trackers. I also let myself push the results around a little more. The title is less ironic than a long standing sense that the music you don’t like yet is the music most likely to come in handy.

Referenced: The Barrons, David Tudor, Max V. Mathews & John Pierce, Lejaren Hiller, Pierre Barbaud, Iannis Xenakis, Herbert Brün, James Tenney, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Pietro Grossi, Sister Harriet Padberg, Gordon Mumma, Roland Kayn, Raymond Scott, Joel Chadabe, Douglas Leedy, Laurie Spiegel, David Behrman, The League of Automatic Music Composers, Don Slepian, The Hub, Maryanne Amacher, David Cope, George E. Lewis.

Equipment used: Sonnus G2M, Midimorphosis, MIDI Guitar 2, TC-11, Phawuo, GrainBender, Scythe, Manetron2, PPG WaveMapper, djay Pro, Taqsim World Piano, ARK-1 Arabic Keyboard, Shire Whistle, FieldScaper, Animoog, Virtual ANS, Cube Synth, microTERA, Tera Synth, AudioLayer, Phasemaker, iVCS3, iLectric Piano, Synth One, Infinite, NeoSoul Keys, ComboOrgan, Ruckers 1628, VoxSyn, iMonoPoly, World Scales, Moog Model 15, Moog Model D, ODYSSEi, Streetlytron Pro, tardigrain, Korg Module, Dedalus, SampleWiz, Quanta, Sylo Synth, Shoom, Thor, Steel Guitar, ReSlice, Fractal Bits, Maschine 2, iConvolver, GliderVerb, Poseidon, bitKlavier, iSEM, SoundyThingie, DXi, iOptigan, FM4, iCathedral, SingingFingers, Galileo, iMini, Stria, iPulsaret, 76 Synthesizer, iPolysix, Burea, Turquoise DS, SeekBeats, bent.fm, Alina, AUFX: Dub, Oriental Strings, iSymphonic, MegaCurtis, MicroTones, Moon Beam, Photophore, Samplr, Stone Echo, Syndt, Jussi, Baervaag, Enkl, Fugue Machine, Audio Reverb, Drums, Drums XD, Ripplemaker, FunkBox, DRM-32, FM 304, Elastic Drums, DrumKick, DM1, DM2, Argon, AD 480 pro, Attractor, Movement I-V, Drumatron, Wilsonic & aardvark -- plus Mackie 1404 & Pro Tools HD.

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Wobbly San Francisco, California

Born in Washington D.C. in 1970, and residing in California since 1983, Jon Leidecker improvises with people, recordings and machines that listen.

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