Attorneys General: Live in Brooklyn w/David Grubbs, Ian Williams, and Ryley Walker (Headache Journals)
From the one-sheet:
“Attorneys General is a project led by Matthew Byars of Baltimore, Maryland.
A formative experience for Byars as a listener was hearing the work of sound engineer Martin Swope of Mission of Burma on their seminal 1985 live record, The Horrible Truth About Burma, in which Swope, using a reel-to-reel tape machine, captured, looped, manipulated, and destroyed elements of the band’s sound in spontaneous and unexpected ways.
Byars has adapted this approach to having three-four people (different players every time, mostly) generate utterly improvised sound through a mixing board he controls, which allows him to capture, loop, manipulate, and destroy the sounds they create. Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous, but the inherent risk involved is, ultimately, the point.”
Attorneys on this record include:
-Ian Williams (modular synth)
-David Grubbs (guitar)
-Ryley Walker (guitar)
Recorded live on Saturday, March 11, 2023 at The P.I.T., Brooklyn, NY
From the one-sheet:
“Attorneys General is a project led by Matthew Byars of Baltimore, Maryland.
A formative experience for Byars as a listener was hearing the work of sound engineer Martin Swope of Mission of Burma on their seminal 1985 live record, The Horrible Truth About Burma, in which Swope, using a reel-to-reel tape machine, captured, looped, manipulated, and destroyed elements of the band’s sound in spontaneous and unexpected ways.
Byars has adapted this approach to having three-four people (different players every time, mostly) generate utterly improvised sound through a mixing board he controls, which allows him to capture, loop, manipulate, and destroy the sounds they create. Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous, but the inherent risk involved is, ultimately, the point.”
Attorneys on this record include:
-Ian Williams (modular synth)
-David Grubbs (guitar)
-Ryley Walker (guitar)
Recorded live on Saturday, March 11, 2023 at The P.I.T., Brooklyn, NY
From the one-sheet:
“Attorneys General is a project led by Matthew Byars of Baltimore, Maryland.
A formative experience for Byars as a listener was hearing the work of sound engineer Martin Swope of Mission of Burma on their seminal 1985 live record, The Horrible Truth About Burma, in which Swope, using a reel-to-reel tape machine, captured, looped, manipulated, and destroyed elements of the band’s sound in spontaneous and unexpected ways.
Byars has adapted this approach to having three-four people (different players every time, mostly) generate utterly improvised sound through a mixing board he controls, which allows him to capture, loop, manipulate, and destroy the sounds they create. Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous, but the inherent risk involved is, ultimately, the point.”
Attorneys on this record include:
-Ian Williams (modular synth)
-David Grubbs (guitar)
-Ryley Walker (guitar)
Recorded live on Saturday, March 11, 2023 at The P.I.T., Brooklyn, NY