Wayward Music Series: Sue Ann Harkey & friends

Sue Ann Harkey, prepared guitar & recordings
Lori Goldston, cello
Greg Kelly, trumpet

What Happens If I Do Nothing – Field recordings to improvise to

Drawing from these sites-and-sounds:
– The Central Line between Bethnal Green and Liverpool Street
– Brighton’s shingle beach
– Puppy antics
– Greenhouse Effect cut-up tape cr. 1984
– Gridlock (Rainer and 23rd)
– LES NYC 1989 walk
– London’s Columbia Rd. Flower Market
– more or less…

A note from the composer: For years I have been collecting sound recordings. Sounds of wild dogs roaming the Goa night. Sounds of cicadas along the Woodstock stream. Sounds of receding waves on Brighton’s shingle beach. Sounds of the screeching Central Line between Bethnal Green to Liverpool Street stations. Sounds of the Cockney barkers at Columbia Street flower market. And relics from my past – extracting the cut-up tape track from my 1985 recording The Green House Effect (what we called “climate change” 32 years ago). I took these recordings because they sounded like music to me. Ambience, rhythms, dissidence.

About Wayward Music Series

Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present 10 concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center: contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.