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: 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: 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.