Monday Roundup #230

Concert announcements:

The New Symphony Orchestra: Cease and Desist ["for this performance, the orchestra will use excerpts from iconic works in the classical canon as the inspiration for free-improvised pieces, this time accompanied by live collage from artists Madi Cassidy and Zoe Abbott"] (feat. Zack Goldstein/Sara Constant/Sara May/Arie Verheul van de Ven/Adrian Russouw/Connor Crone/Ben Mike/Ryan Kinney/Owen Kurtz) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-06-16 (Monday). $pwyc/$15 recommended. [more info]

Cassiar Records presents (feat. BLOOP / Josh Cole [solo double bass]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-06-17 (Tuesday). $15/notaflof. [FB event]

Music Hosted by Karen Ng (feat. Arie Verheul van de Ven / Aidan McConnell/Karen Ng/Adrian Russouw) / Wenona Lodge 2025-06-17 (Tuesday) [more info]

The Two Deaths of Ophelia [works by Linda Catlin Smith, Shawn Jaeger, Ann Southam, Wolfgang Rihm, Oliver Knussen, Charles Wuorinen, Thomas Adès, Luis Ramirez, Ryan Chase, Krzysztof Penderecki, Claude Vivier] (feat. The Happenstancers [Simon Rivard/Reilly Nelson/Danika Lorè/Jesse Blumberg/Dion Mazerolle/Luri Lee/Sienna Cho/Hee-Soo Yoon/Hezekiah Leung/Peter Eom/Travis Harrison/Lenny Ranallo/Joonghun Cho/Wesley Shen/Chris James/Aleh Remezau/Brad Cherwin/Nicolas Richard/Ryan Garbett/Declan Scott/Nikki Huang/Thomas Li]) / 918 Bathurst 2025-06-19 (Thursday). $33.28 (general admission), $free (students). [tickets & more info]

Music of Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden (feat. Lina Allemano/Ben Boye/Nate McBride/Karen Ng/Frank Rosaly/Nick Fraser) / The Emmet Ray 2024-06-19 (Thursday). $15. [more info]

Rock Plaza Central / The Baby G 2025-07-03 (Thursday). $22, 19+. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Toronto Electronic Music Open Mic (feat. Caustic Clouds / Garden of Magic / Hozerz / Eye-Duh Kho / Hexwave / Little Vanity/illicit Pulse / Lance Oullette / avisupchurch / dreamSTATE / Alissa Vox Raw / tomorrow tomorrow / BlackSmyth / Broken Pink Umbrella / Gruve Collective / Stefan Powell and Rob Cruikshank) / Handlebar 2025-06-09 (Monday). $11.30, all-ages. [more info]

Nick Adema [presenting his solo trombone album Buiksloterkerk] (Max Donaldson) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-06-09 (Monday). [more info]

Wesley Shen [works for solo piano by Anna Höstman and Emilie LeBel] / Array Space 2025-06-10 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Olivia Boring / Adam Waito / James Irwin / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2025-06-10 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

A Failed Entertainment (feat. Anh Phung/Tara Kannangara/Leland Whitty/Luan Phung/Chris Pruden/Julian Anderson-Bowes/Mack Longpré) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-10 (Tuesday). [more info]

Selkie Sessions [Isla Craig/Sean Donald/Ivy Mairi/Andrew Patten] / Island Cafe 2025-06-11 (Wednesday) [more info]

Brodie West's Double Basses Quintet -1 [Brodie West / Josh Cole / Rob Clutton / Patrick O'Reilly] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-06-11 (Wednesday – early)

Never Was [Brandon Davis/Bea Labikova//Patrick O'Reilly/Adrian Russouw/Joe Sorbara] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-06-11 (Wednesday) [more info]

Isla Craig & the Sorry Brothers [Isla Craig/Kurt Newman/Karsten Stryker] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-06-12 (Thursday). $pwyc.

Audiopollination [please come out to help celebrate Mike Lynn, on his last night hosting the series after thirteen years of crucial community-building!] (feat. David Sait/Marilyn Yogarajah/Magick / cheryl o/Neil Wiernik / Heraclitus Akimbo/Laura Swankey/Judy Zhu / Mickle32 & Rod Campbell) / Array Space 2025-06-13 (Friday) [FB event]

Second Fridays (feat. Lithophonica [Gayle Young/James Harley] / Matt Brubeck & Caylie Staples / Korba Sun Collective [Georgia Korba/Yuzi Sun/Matt Aasen/Dylan Pilcher]) / Canadian Music Centre 2025-06-13 (Friday). $22.63 general admission, $17.31 student. [more info]

Not Dead Yet presents (feat. Kara-Lis Coverdale [record release] / Joseph Shabason) / 918 Bathurst 2025-06-13 (Friday). $31.56, 19+. [more info]

Hooveriii (The John Denver Airport Conspiracy) / Blood Brothers Brewing 2025-06-13 (Friday). $24.98, 19+. [FB event]

Musica Universalis (feat. William Hunt & Colin Fisher) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-06-13 (Friday) [more info]

The Marker Starling Band (Derrick Anthony Vella) / BSMT 254 2025-06-14 (Saturday – early). $20, 19+. [FB event]

New Chance [A Rock Unsteady record release] (Bile Sister) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2025-06-14 (Saturday). $28.27. [more info/tickets]

Batuki Music Society presents (feat. Coup de Coeur [Sadio Sissokho/Assane Seck/Seydina Ndiaye/ILAM/Pape Ndiaye/Carlo Birri]) / Hugh’s Room Live 2025-06-14 (Saturday). $36.63 (general admission)/$24.42 (students/arts worker/underemployed). [more info]

Art of Improv (feat. Germaine Liu & Mark Zurawinski / future proof [Bea Labikova & Raphael Roter] / Germaine Liu/Mark Zurawinski/Bill Gilliam/Eugene Martynec/Bill McBirnie) / Annette Studios 2025-06-15 (Sunday). $20/pwyc. [FB event]

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It happened this week...

• ...on June 13, 2016 at Ratio (Burn Down The Capital Presents).

Cory Latkovich & Robert Grieve - [excerpt 1]

• ...on June 15, 2016 at Monarch Tavern.

The Burning Hell - Men Without Hats

[Do remember that you can click on the tags below to go back and find the original posts (and often, more stuff) from these artists.]

Recording: Royal Jelly

Artist: Royal Jelly

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #95), September 3, 2024.

Royal Jelly - unknown

This expanded/all-star edition of cellist Cory Harper-Latkovich's Jelly Ear project saw him joined by Kurt Newman (guitar), Allison Cameron (banjolele, melodica, synth), Sara Constant (flutes) as well as Germaine Liu and Yang Chen (percussion). It was the latter pair, with rocks and other percussive implements spread around them on the floor (à la The Titillators) that gave this a slightly different cast to the medieval (and new-but-medieval-sounding) pieces the group played, adding scrapes and other gentle clatter to mildly decenter the stately proceedings. This night was a bit of a farewell party as well, with Harper-Latkovich heading off to delve deeper into compositional studies in early music, so new/old wrinkles are sure to arise next time an ensemble like this is assembled.

You can check out the full set over on youtube:

[Track Could Bend is back at Wenona next Tuesday (October 1st) with sets from Josh Cole + Mira Martin-Gray and Laura Swankey/Brittany Pitt/Dan Pitt.]

^* It's not impossible that this is the end of one piece going into another. Does anyone know the title(s)? Please leave a comment!

Recording: Jelly Ear

Artist: Jelly Ear

Song: two unknown songs^*

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), June 12, 2023.

Jelly Ear - unknown #1

Jelly Ear - unknown #2

Closing out a half-year's residency at The Tranzac, Jelly Ear brought out a large version of its rotating ensemble, with Cory Harper-Latkovich (rebec) joined by Allison Cameron (organ), Yang Chen (percussion), Sara Constant (flutes), Andrew Noseworthy (guitar) and Seb Shinwell (guitar). Working, as usual, from the songbooks of Machaut and similar medieval composers, the group navigated the pieces' drones, drifts, dips and turns without ever worring about RenFaire "authenticity". Hopefully there will be more to hear from this group — some proper recordings of their repertoire would be most welcome indeed.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

^* Does anyone know the titles to either of these? Please leave a comment! My notes only tell me that the first one is about Theseus and the second about an angel with three wings.

Recording: Jelly Ear

Artist: Jelly Ear

Song: O Strength of Wisdom [composer: Hildegard von Bingen]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #71), September 6, 2022.

Jelly Ear - O Strength of Wisdom

Taking up the rebec as a pandemic downtime project, cellist Cory Harper-Latkovich has pressed it into action in this new medieval ensemble. Performing works by Machaut and others and performed with on-the-fly arrangements for a flexible lineup, this isn't overly beholden to "period" purity — and as the lilting minimal drones of this piece indicate, some of it sounds downright contemporary.

You can see some more of this set over in the TCB playlist on youtube:

[Track Could Bend will be back at Wenona next week (Tuesday, October 4th) with a special appearance from Denmark's Jonas Olesen as well as awesome locals Kayla Milmine & Mike Gennaro and Stranger Still.]

Recording: Les Trois Lynx Roux

Artist: Les Trois Lynx Roux

Songs: [excerpts from two pieces]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #60), March 3, 2020.

Les Trois Lynx Roux - [excerpt from 1st piece]

Les Trois Lynx Roux - [excerpt from 2nd piece]

Montréal-based trumpeter Émilie Fortin had a few extra days in town after her Bakarlari collective played the Music Gallery, so cellist Cory Harper-Latkovich assembled this grouping. He showed an obvious sense of delight in having a chance to introduce Fortin and percussionist Germaine Liu to each other — two deeply inventive players who also approach their work with a lot of playful joy and laughter. The resultant ruckus indeed had some excited whistles and swells, but also plenty quiet drone'n'squeak.

[Track Could Bend's previously-planned fifth anniversary celebration will obviously not be happening. Keep an eye out at the series' FB page for news of things re-emerging when the gathering-together status has changed.]

Recording: Tatsuya Nakatani & Dreamed Meat

Artist: Tatsuya Nakatani & Dreamed Meat

Songs: [full set, in two parts]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Furniture Music), October 22, 2019.

Tatsuya Nakatani & Dreamed Meat - [part 1]

Tatsuya Nakatani & Dreamed Meat - [part 2]

This night closed with a short meeting between all the night's performers. Cory Harper-Latkovich seemed to be less interventionist here, reducing the intensity of his processing and letting Rob Grieve's organic guitar sounds share the space with Tatsuya Nakatani's percussion, but overall this was a quite satisfying encounter.

[Adjusting for holiday downtime, Furniture Music will be holding a special co-presentation with JAOIM on the second Tuesday this month — that's Tuesday, December 10th — with a couple unsanctioned rounds of the improvisational game Cobra conducted by Joe Sorbara. Scheduled participants include Mingjia Jessica Chen, Bea Labikova, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Rob Grieve, Ashley Urquhart, Andrew Furlong, Raphael Roter, and Alex Fournier.]

Recording: Dreamed Meat

Artist: Dreamed Meat

Song: [excerpt from second piece]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Furniture Music), October 22, 2019.

Dreamed Meat - [excerpt from second piece]

Reactivating this duo from Cory Harper-Latkovich and Rob Grieve puts it into that category of side-excursions that have outlasted the project they were spun off from, though this time out Harper-Latkovich's manipulations of Grieve's fingertapped guitar (processed via laptop and ipad) involved some less-noisy textures, working mostly along the shimmer/sputter continuum.

[Adjusting for holiday downtime, Furniture Music will be holding a special co-presentation with JAOIM on the second Tuesday this month — that's Tuesday, December 10th — with a couple unsanctioned rounds of the improvisational game Cobra conducted by Joe Sorbara. Scheduled participants include Mingjia Jessica Chen, Bea Labikova, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Rob Grieve, Ashley Urquhart, Andrew Furlong, Raphael Roter, and Alex Fournier.]

Recording: Clarinet Panic

Artist: Clarinet Panic

Song: Hard Dads [excerpt]

Recorded at Pioneer Village Station (Intersection Day 1: Music For Subways), August 29, 2019.

Clarinet Panic - Hard Dads [excerpt]

A couple years back, Intersection made its first step into presenting creative sounds in unconventional environments. This sequel moved from the core to the end of the line, exchanging a jam-packed greenhouse for plenty elbow room in the city's newest subway stations. Skipping over the hurly-burly of York University, the travelling concert moved on to the very edge of the city. At Pioneer Village Station (whose sprawling, station-spanning half-million dollar interactive art installation has never been turned on) the mezzanine level above the trains has a large open area that's quite perfect for throwing a concert in — in a better world there'd be a band playing there every night.

Perhaps in tribute to the subway system's buskers, this section of the venerable "Hard Dads" had D. Alex Meeks and the other members of the ensemble flicking coins on the floor. Meanwhile, this "reduxx" phase of the Clarinet Panic's existence is seeing the project become a bit less of a "band" and more of an "ensemble" that can plug in different performers to tweak the pieces in various ways — this set saw saxophonists Olivia Shortt and Naomi McCarroll-Butler joining the core quintet, first beside them on the floor, then playing their way to the upper level, dramatically overlooking the players and audience assembled below.

Recording: Cory Harper-Latkovich

Artist: Cory Harper-Latkovich

Song: Verge/Resolve [two excerpts]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Jazz and Otherwise Improvised Musics), July 9, 2019.

Cory Harper-Latkovich - Verge/Resolve [excerpt 1]

Cory Harper-Latkovich - Verge/Resolve [excerpt 2]

More frequently seen wearing his composers' hat recently¹, Cory Harper-Latkovich came down to Wenona's basement to make some sounds. That this'd not be your standard solo cello set was made clear when Harper-Latkovich sat down on the floor in front of his cello, which was laying on its back. In an effort to re-connect with his instrument, Harper-Latkovich has been turning to electroacoustic investigation, using preparations and percussive techniques guided by small gestures and manipulations to make new sounds. Sometimes fading into near inaudibilty — the extracts here are two of the louder portions of the set — the personal connection and sense of internal investigation were underlined in the latter stages when Harper-Latkovich set a piece of paper on the cello's body and wrote a letter, the tap-scrapes of a pencil giving a quiet sonic modulo.

[Cory Harper-Latkovich will be making some less quiet and intimate sounds with his cello as part of Clarinet Panic's set at Pioneer Village station during Intersection's TTC crawl tonight (Thursday, August 29th).]

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¹ n.b.: not a literal hat.

Recording: Clarinet Panic Redux

Artist: Clarinet Panic Redux

Song: Hard Dads [first section]^*

Recorded at Burdock Music Hall, November 13, 2018.

Clarinet Panic Redux - Hard Dads [first section]

A second returning for the reactivated Clarinet Panic crew. Once more, I believe here they're fulfilling some past eschatological promises and expanding/re-working old material. This prelude to a suite is based more on the concept of gratuitous fluidity than most of Cory Harper-Latkovich's explosively-tricky note-filled pieces for the band.

^* Thanks to Cory for confirming the title to this one!

Recording: Clarinet Panic Redux

Artist: Clarinet Panic Redux

Song: R.W. [excerpt]^*

Recorded at The Baby G (TONE Festival and Mechanical Forest Sound present), June 3, 2018.

Clarinet Panic Redux - R.W. [excerpt]

It was a real honour to have a chance to co-present a show leading off the second incarnation of the wonderful TONE Festival. Even if there can be unexpected shifts in a lineup from planning to execution, I was very excited with the night that came together. The heart of this show was this reunion set from Clarinet Panic, reactivating on a planetary alignment that had all four members in the same city for long enough to get a grip on Cory Harper-Latkovich's quick-shifting chamber-prog. Hearing the velocity and intensity of this music again was a reminder of how much more "rock" it is than most "new music" — especially with saxophonist Karen Ng finding the same fast-squawking tone used by Linsey Wellman in art-punks FET.NAT.

[Rumours are rumbling underfoot about strange extensions of Clarinet Panic's reunion — keep an eye out for some interesting forthcoming news!]

^* So far as I can tell, this set-long piece is an extended redux of this older composition, though I don't know for sure if it still bears the same name.

Recording: DUST

Artist: DUST

Song: [set 1 excerpt]

Recorded at Gerrard Art Space, April 28, 2018.

DUST - [set 1 excerpt]

The return of "the quietest big band in the known world" (one of several projects re-ignited with the return of percussionist D. Alex Meeks to these parts) brought out a baker's dozen of old hands and new to attempt to collectively make as little noise as possible. The ensemble this time included Nicholas Buligan, John Oswald, James Bailey, Mike Smith, Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Lina Allemano, Cory Latkovich, Kayla Milmine, Brian Abbott, Mark Zurawinski, Sebastian Shinwell, Paul Newman and Meeks, all quietly blowing, rubbing or scratching at their instruments — or, just pausing to eat some fruit. As always, there's no proper way to replicate the aural experience via a recording, as the thing that is striking about DUST in the flesh is that bare minimum of sound interacting with the environment. If it needs to be (barely) heard to be comprehended, there is at least a greater chance of that now re-occurring.

Recording: CHOBO with strings

Artist: CHOBO with strings

Song: [first section]

Recorded at Dundas Video (Track Could Bend #19), October 4, 2016.

CHOBO with strings - [first section]

When I saw Jessica Cho and Benjamin Boles performing their live techno highwire act CHOBO back in August, I asked what kinds of non-electronic sounds they'd want to try to incorporate into their mix. Cho immediately said strings, so when I asked them to come out to TCB, I called on cellist Cory Latkovich to join forces with them. Unintentionally soundtracking Run Lola Run, which was on the screen beside the stage, there was a definite sense of propulsion in what they came up with, even if Latkovich's own adventures in transportation left him with only three strings.

Recording: Imaginary Flesh

Artist: Imaginary Flesh

Song: Seven Haab Out of Xi Boötis, pt. 3

Recorded at Yonge-Dundas Square (Intersection Festival – Day 2), September 3, 2016.

Imaginary Flesh - Seven Haab Out of Xi Boötis, pt. 3

A lovely day, warm in the sun with a cool breeze, the Intersection Festival once again filled Dundas Square with music of all kinds, offering a counterpoint to business at usual in the ad-basked concrete canyon. With Tad Michalak (of Burn Down the Capital/Feast in the East) again taking a leading role in curating the day, the music had nods to the festival's more chamber music-intensive past while upping the noise and weirdness reverberating off the surrounding walls. That had a sort of push-pull effect on the passers-by, sometimes drawing them in, sometimes causing evident confusion and moving along.

A rare chance to check out Imaginary Flesh in the... um, something. Celebrating the digital release of their fab concept album, they played the expansive "Seven Haab Out of Xi Boötis" in its entirety. Ranging from deep-space synth wubbles to some ace kosmische grooves, this was an altogether tasty journey.

[I also created a remix that enfolds some some set's quieter parts upon themselves, which you can check out on soundcloud.]

Recording: Cory Latkovich

Artist: Cory Latkovich

Song: selections from two performances by In Synch

Recorded at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Camp Wavelength), August 20, 2016.

Cory Latkovich - In Synch [version 1, intro music]

Cory Latkovich - In Synch [version 1]

Cory Latkovich - In Synch [version 2]

Following and expanding on the template of last year's successful festival, Wavelength returned to the island with a meticulously-executed event that included an exciting range of music and a beach full of art beside festival headliner Lake Ontario. It also managed to be a stress-reducing rather than a stress-inducing time — rather like a weekend at the cottage, even if the city was just out of view.

Aubyn O'Grady's In Synch performance was a highlight of last year's Camp Wavelength, presenting an amateur synchronized swimming routine with equal parts whimsy and gravitas. Despite the burden of now having to deal with raised expectations, the troupe raised their game and presented an even more impressive performance this year, with more elaborate costumes, thoughtful staging as well as some live music. The latter was provided by Cory Latkovich on cello and MAX patch, mixing swooning strings with some slightly-menacing subsonic frequencies. The group performed the routine twice, so this is also a chance to listen to two different improvised takes on the same idea — the first has a smoother sheen while the second take sounds like it's moving into slightly choppier waters.

[In an entirely-different sonic galaxy, Latkovich's avant-prog/kosmische group Imaginary Flesh will be re-emerging on Saturday at the highly-recommended Intersection Festival.]

Recording: Cory Latkovich & Robert Grieve

Artist: Cory Latkovich & Robert Grieve

Songs: [two excerpts]

Recorded at Ratio (Burn Down The Capital Presents), June 13, 2016.

Cory Latkovich & Robert Grieve - [excerpt 1]

Cory Latkovich & Robert Grieve - [excerpt 2]

This pairing, whose work together has run the gamut from imaginary flesh to dreamed meat served as the pivot-point between the night's more rambunctious ensembles with their restrained tag-team work feeding Grieve's fretless guitar manipulations through Latkovich's custom Pure Data patches. There were a couple accidental noisebursts at the set's beginning and end (which I have reconfigured into the bizarro-world version of this set's proceedings) but this otherwise hit cruising altitude with a warbling glide.

Recording: Temporary Ensembles

Artist: Temporary Ensembles, composed of Chris Adriaanse, Rob Diack, Cory Latkovich, Jonathan Luke, Paul Newman, Daniel Pencer, Joe Sorbara, Laura Swankey, and Logan Mills.

Songs: [excerpts form various improvisations]

Recorded at Array Space (Somewhere There presents), March 13, 2016.

Jonathan Luke + Laura Swankey - [temporary ensemble #1]

Rob Diack + Paul Newman - [temporary ensemble #2]

Daniel Pencer + Chris Adriaanse - [temporary ensemble #4]

Logan Mills + Daniel Pencer + Chris Adriaanse + Joe Sorbara - [temporary ensemble #5]

Logan Mills + Jonathan Luke + Joe Sorbara - [temporary ensemble #8] [excerpt]

Laura Swankey + Chris Adriaanse + Rob Diack + Daniel Pencer - [temporary ensemble #9]

Cory Latkovich + Paul Newman - [temporary ensemble #10]

"Temporary Ensembles are born, live short and potentially magical musical lives, and then sublimate into thin air." As a prelude to a session learning the signals and cues for John Zorn's "game piece" Cobra, this night began with an exercise in pure improvisation with the assembled musicians literally throwing their hats in the ring for audience members to randomly select playing combos while convener Joe Sorbara rolled dice to see how many people would play together at a time. Extremely informal, the night felt more like a workshop than a gig, but those who wanted to just listen were welcome along for the ride.

Recording: Dreamed Meat

Artist: Dreamed Meat

Song: [edited excerpts]

Recorded at Yonge-Dundas Square (Intersection 2015), September 5, 2015.

Dreamed Meat - [edited excerpts]

You can read my general notes on the festival here. This two-headed subset of Imaginary Flesh saw Cory Latkovich and Rob Grieve lead off the festival under a blindingly-hot mid-afternoon sun. Grieve's guitar and Latkovich's laptop manipulations established an abrasive tone mixing gravelwarble and synthy woops.

Recording: Imaginary Flesh

Artist: Imaginary Flesh

Songs: two sections from "Seven Haab Out of Xi Boötis"^*

Recorded at Handlebar, August 22, 2015.

Imaginary Flesh - Seven Haab Out of Xi Boötis [drone section]

Imaginary Flesh - Seven Haab Out of Xi Boötis [krautrock section]

Though not playing out too much (there was only one show in the interim), Cory Latkovich's Imaginary Flesh have been making immense strides through time and space since I last saw 'em. This Tad Michalak-curated gig saw the five-piece devote their entire forty-minute set to this ambitiously-sprawling new piece that heightens (and/or implodes) all previous expectations of the group — and its trajectory away from its previous incarnation. There's certainly a composerly architecture and plenty 'nuff fiddly moments to warrant the scores the musicians were consulting, but sonically more than ever this cashes out as rock music — even if one means that in the deliberately-arranged proggy way. Playing in a bar (rather than a more sedate experimental music space) also gave the band room to crank up the volume and explore the dynamics of the piece's peaks and valleys. Losing drummer D. Alex Meeks to educational leave probably means that pace of shows isn't going to pick up any time soon, but the band recently completed some recording sessions that will see the light of day by and by. For now, here's a couple sections as heard in the rough.

[Cory Latkovich and guitarist Rob Grieve will be performing as Dreamed Meat at this Saturday's Intersection festival.]

^* I understand there is a formal delineation of this piece's sections. I will update this accordingly if I can refine the titles.

Recording: Troubleshooting Trio

Artist: Troubleshooting Trio

Song: [excerpt from an improvisation]

Recorded at Array Space ("Somewhere There's Second Sunday Series"), July 12, 2015.

Troubleshooting Trio - [excerpt from an improvisation]

Quite literally the three people behind the monthly laptop-improvisation "troubleshooting" residency at The Tranzac (monthly on the first Wednesday, next instalment on August 5th) this set saw Cory Latkovich, Lisa Conway and Nick Buligan perform realtime manipulations with their Max and PD patches, extending their instruments into abstract space.

[The next show in the Second Sunday series (Aug. 9th) will pair Robert Cruickshank and Dafydd Hughes's audio-visual project Little Oak Animal with NYC visitors Aorist.]