MUSIC
Transcontinental underground communication no. 1
"That tree is deeper than it seems"
Lyric + Vocal: Joanne Nucho
Music: Michael Garofalo
Limited Edition 10" Vinyl Mini-LP, Edition of 300. A sonic meditation on the relationship between human and nonhuman animals. Written and performed by Michael Garofalo with help from crickets in Berkeley, CA; a nest of unknown baby birds in Old Saybrook, CT; tree frogs in El Junque, Puerto Rico; a woodpigeon and a stray tomcat outside of Catania, Italy; and red-winged blackbirds in Jamaica, Queens, NYC.
Buy the vinyl here.
Cover painting by Sayaka Nagata.
*"Listening through a Sound Microscope to Birds around a Maryland Farmhouse: Songs Known Only to the Birds, Tohee" by n/a from the recording entitled The Birds World of Song, FW06115, provided courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 1961. Used by permission.
This project is made possible with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film Program, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
EP. Shortwave and weather band radio recordings + synthesizers + samples.
Written, performed, and recorded by Michael Garofalo.
IN DETERMINING JOHN CAGE (2012)
Adaptation of Cage's 1959 performance-essay "Indeterminacy" produced for "120 Hours for John Cage," a celebration of Cage's works for radio organized to mark Cage's centennial and curated by Wave Farm/free103point9 and the John Cage Trust.
The piece consists of 10 stories and 10 musical compositions written independently from each other and paired at random. Because the pairing of story and music is determined by chance, it is unlikely that any two versions will be exactly the same. This version was broadcast in September, 2012 on WGXC radio.
Text + Voice: Shonni Enelow
Music: Michael Garofalo
Direction: Josh Hoglund
Concept: Enelow, Garofalo, Hoglund
Latitude/Longitude (Selected Works)
Latitude/Longitude was Michael Garofalo, Patrick McCarthy, and Jason Labbe.
DUSK RADIO is their final LP.
All songs Garofalo/Labbe/McCarthy. Recorded by Josh Clark at Seaside Lounge and by Latitude/Longitude at the Kaoss Pad, in Brooklyn, NY between 2008-2009. Mixed by Patrick McCarthy at Seaside Lounge. Mastered by Paul Gold.
SOLAR FILTERS/MOTHER EVENING (2007)
Double A-side 7" record released by free103point9 as part of their audio dispatch series (AD031).
SOLAR FILTERS was part of a song cycle about the sun and its influence on Earth's atmosphere. That project got scrapped, but SOLAR FILTERS survived and the shortwave radio textures that open the track (essentially, the sounds of the atmosphere) point to its origins.
MOTHER EVENING began as a live improvisation. The lyrics came from spam email, cobbled together into a sort of collage-poem, incorporating this digital detritus (literally, junk mail) into the song.
The etchings on either side of the vinyl records refer to the lost song cycle and the subject line from a spam email.
Written and Performed by Michael Garofalo and Patrick McCarthy. Recorded at Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn, NY by Patrick McCarthy. Mixed by Patrick McCarthy. Cover art by Michael Shrouds. Imaging by Bryan Zimmerman.
ABSOLUTE LOCATIONS (LIVE SONGS + IMPROVISATIONS 2004-2007)
Latitude/Longitude performances were primarily improvised and songs came out vastly different from their recorded versions. This collection features highlights from live shows leading up to the recording of DUSK RADIO.
Michael Garofalo: synthesizers, guitars, mbira, kalimba, stylophone, toy piano, drum machine, fm transmitters, radios, walkie-talkies, miscellaneous
Jason Labbe: drums, percussion
Patrick McCarthy: guitars, banjo, pedal steel, vox, synthesizers, fm transmitters, radios, walkie-talkies, miscellaneous