New Music Gathering: Dance Party & Cookies featuring Methods Body
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Methods Body: Dance Party as Form
About the Gathering: NMG 2023 will be three action-packed days, June 22nd through 24th, 2023 hosted by Portland State University in Oregon, with a fabulous "Welcome to Portland!" concert on Wednesday, June 21st and a glorious soundwalk on Sunday, June 25th!
More events throughout the day; view the full NMG 2023 schedule here: https://www.newmusicgathering.org/nmg2023
About Methods Body
METHODS BODY (Portland, OR, USA) creates original sound art and music using custom tuning systems, involuted polyrhythms, and the cadences of language. John Niekrasz (Ecstatic Peace, ESP-Disk') and Luke Wyland (The Leaf Label, Hometapes, Crammed Records) use bespoke live-sampling technologies and meta-cognitive compositions to inhabit waves of subliminal melody and deep, uncanny grooves.
Methods Body builds on the non-traditional tunings of Terry Riley, the experimental energy of Éliane Radigue and Silver Apples, and the refracted electronics of Aphex Twin to create a sonic language completely their own. Together, Wyland and Niekrasz have been pushing the bounds of rhythm and melody for more than a dozen years. Their duos, AU and Why I Must Be Careful, were lauded as groundbreaking and breathtaking. Both Niekrasz and Wyland are idiosyncratic innovators on their instruments and use performance as an arena for legitimate connection and energetic exchange. Methods Body’s first full-length album is born from long-term composing and recording sessions held in old-growth forests and remote deserts.
https://www.methodsbody.com/