biscuits for… freeze-framers

an experimental dj-set all about pitching drum ‘n bass and hard-driving tracks down 12-50 bpm below their native tempos.

Sam Link: The Breath — 2022
Maroki: Boiler — 2022
D Palace: Offline — 2022
Stenny: Wipeout — 2022
Swimful: Translation to Heaven — 2022
Imogen: Up to No Good — 2022
Lord Jalapeños: Structurally Disordered — 2022
Acid Ultras: My Reflections (Altered Natives mix) — 2021
Grey Man: Take U Down — 2022
Suchi: Lotus (Priori remix) — 2022
Tatyana Jane: Vertigo City — 2022
Tom Jarmey: Valley — 2021
The Sauce & Critical Impact: Grimiest Ever — 2022
MILF Melly: I’m Pullin’ Up — 2022
Hassan Abou Alam: Shmoolaire — 2022
Two Shell: No Reply — 2022
CTRL + OPT: Fresh Grown — 2022
Amy Dabbs: Baddest Gal — 2022
Nikki Nair: Eyes on You — 2022
Hodge: Sub 100 — 2022
Justin Jay & AK Sports: Game Recognize Game — 2022
Thugwidow: Overall Failure — 2022
Istari Lasterfahrer: Fuck the Computer — 2022
Céilí: Petrol or Diesel — 2022
Unity Vega: Aqua Gold — 2022
Bakongo + Scuba: Over Again (Hassan Abou Alam Percussive Tool) — 2022
Will Miles: No Cover — 2022
Forest Drive West: Break — 2022

Big Ears Festival, 2020

Knoxville, TN March 24-27

As opposed to most of the drawings below, the sketches from this event were made live, in pencil, rather than in ink and after-the-fact from photographs I took.

Kronos Quartet; So Percussion˚; Tomeka Reid & Nikky Finney; Black Monument Ensemble; Fennesz; MSSV˚; Low˚; Kris Davis & Julian Lage (talk); Craig Taborn Trio; Claire Rousay; Kris Davis Diatom Ribbons; Sons of Kemet˚; Ensemble dal Niente with Ken Vandermark; Kim Gordon˚; Ben Lamar Gay, Damon Locks & Angel Bat Dawid (talk); Brian Marsella Trio; Ches Smith / We All Break; Yasmin Williams; Sarah Davachi; Ben Lamar Gay; Circuit des Yeux; Annette Peacock; Dead Rider˚; Sarah Davachi; Hanif Abdurraqib (talk); Bill Frisell Trio; Sudan Archives˚; John Zorn New Masada

˚-not pictured.

Big Ears Festival, 2019

Knoxville, TN

Rachel Grimes; Joan la Barbara; YoshimiO / Ibarra / Lowe; Mercury Rev; Lonnie Holley with Messthetics; Larry Grenadier; Harold Budd + Nief Norf; Evan Parker Trance Map; The Comet Is Coming; Absînt (Berne + Frisell); Spiritualized; Jlin; Fire!; Nate Wooley; Amirtha Kidambi and the Elder Ones; Kayhan Kalhor; This Is Not This Heat; Jon Mueller; Abstract Black; Bill Frisell (livescore to Bill Morrisson); Sons of Kemet; Alvin Lucier & Ever Present Orchestra; Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin; Arvo Pärt’s Passio performed by the St. John’s Episcopal Choir; Sun of Goldfinger; Art Ensemble of Chicago + guests

Joan al Barbara

Comet Is Coming

Amirtha Kidambi and Elder Ones

Alvin Lucier

biscuits for… neck bracers

This mix of new-release electronica is meant to shift wildly between half-and-double-time.

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Low End Activist: Engineer’s Origins
Farron: T9CE
Varuna: Autotrophic Biomass
M-Zine: The Dread
DJ Andy: Take It Back
Fumio Itabashi / Henrik Schwarz / Kuniyuki: Watarase (Henrik Schwarz version)
Asquith: Sofa Living
Acado: Hera
Iron Curtis featuring Lisa Toh & Johannes Albert: Nektar Leftie (Erdbeerschnitzel remix)
Agents of Time: Jimmy the Jester
Eleonora featuring UnderHer: All Together (version)
Saive & Kleiber: Out of Silence (ZUma Dionys remix)
Estella Boersma: Final Lap
Nicolas Duque: Bristol Love
De-Tu & Congi: Shallow Waters
Arkham Sound: Mercy (Gnisschrew mix)
Sentinel 793: a Stranger Rings
Sharp Veins: Glue Forest
D-Operation Drop: Liberation (Babe Roots & Don Fe remix)
Pleasure Jail: No Justice, No Peace
Amy Dabbs: Take It
8Ball: Only Time Will Tell
Superabundance: Fuzzy Math
Kamus: Wallce (Nikki Nair remix)
Halber Ball: Rift 3
Brain Rays & Quiet: Tigress Canisha
Sun People: Spirits
Sorrow: Paramount
Switch Back Smith: Room 2
Nicola Cruz: Aima (Auntie Flo mix)
Velmondo & Ironize Aka: Kyushu
Valentino Mora: Membrane