Friday April 3rd, 8PM
$15 adv / $20 door

https://seretanandthayer.bandcamp.com/album/sunbeam-of-no-illusion

Sunbeam of No Illusion is Thayer and Seretan’s first official collaboration on record, though they’ve performed together in a wide variety of contexts since 2023. Drawing on the resplendent natural world of their shared home of upstate New York, the pair calls forth the specters of the valley, spinning up an offering that's frequently sublime and often a little sorrowful.

Imperfections, signal noise, ground buzz, blips, plonks, glitches, and stutters accrete over clumsy, delicate loops of Fender Rhodes piano, accumulating into something that very evocatively emulates the sparkling white noise of water or the calm swell of a breeze. Sunbeam is a fine slice of hyperreality, a nuanced, BGM-inflected postmodern pastoral that's a heady blend of Yoshimura, Fennesz, Badalamenti, and Harold Budd. The poet Richard Brautigan dreamed of a cybernetic forest, computers in the trees - here the wind is digital, trees rustling in binary. At peace with change and permeability, the metal resonance and electrical impulses of the Rhodes hum in the field of the studio as the Earth orbits the sun, an imperfect looping.

John Thayer is an audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist (chiefly drums and percussion) whose experiential compositions are inspired by a deep attention to the sounds of the natural world. His recordings, centered around a hybrid of studio techniques and improvisatory performance, range from long-form, multilayered ambience to polyrhythmic electro-acoustic collage. Having been a very active member of the New York experimental scene, his compositions and installations bear wide-ranged influences drawn from his many collaborators over the years.

Ben Seretan (Climax, NY) makes music that is always very something: loud, cathartic, gentle, serene, open-hearted, off-the-cuff. Centering joy, his work takes many forms - a 24-hour-long atlas of guitar clouds, secular praise exploding into crash cymbals, tremendously gentle piano chords on a bed of bugs. He also maintains a correspondence project called My Big Break featuring new sounds and new writing every Thursday

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Grayson in the mirror is the ambient drone project of Gray Schiller composed of voice, long-form drone guitar, and homegrown instruments.

https://pssiye.bandcamp.com/track/two-clocks-forever-touching-2

Ben Seretan + John Thayer (album release show) / Grayson in the mirror

Ben Seretan + John Thayer (album release show) / Grayson in the mirror