CREDITS
for this compilation:
Producer/Graphic Design: Meerenai Shim
Mastering Engineer: Jett Galindo
Program Notes: Meg Wilhoite
©Ⓟ 2023 Aerocade Music.
The Aerocade Music Compilation
by Various Aerocade Artists
Herein find an exemplary sampling of the Aerocade aesthetic, carefully cultivated over the past seven years.
New perspectives on underrepresented genres from artists typically underrepresented in their geography and/or demographics provide for a rich soundscape in this compilation. You will hear an homage to the plucky Sumatra chicken, encounter clocks as sympathetic characters, and experience improvisatory drone-based alchemy.
PROGRAM NOTES by Meg Wilhoite, continued…
“I Am Not Perfect, Neither Are You,” written and performed by the Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker features deep drone pulses underpinning an evocative electronic kaleidoscope of sounds. Keyboardist/vocalist/composer Alchymie and contrabassist/improviser Gregg Skloff also use drone to great effect in “Pluto,” the pull of the bow on the bass strings creating deep space vibrations as shimmery electronic sounds lull you into a trance. A/B Duo similarly mix the electronic with the analog in Matthew Joseph Payne’s “Echoloquacious” for flute, vibraphone, drum kit, and Gameboy (LSDJ) in a vigorous dance.
“1232 Lyfe,” written by Alexander Lloyd Blake and performed by Blake and choral group Tonality invites us to a different kind of dance, as individual voices entwine into complex patterns that coalesce into compelling beats to underscore an urgent social message. A similar tapestry of individual rhythmic patterns intertwining to create a complex, clocklike choreography is heard in Jennifer Bellor’s “Dance of Hands,” performed by percussion ensemble Clocks in Motion. Cellist Hannah Addario-Berry weaves her own web of sound in her performance of Gloria Justen’s “Sonaquifer,” the sinuous gestures creating the illusion of a multitude of voices.
“Cock Flight” by Kimberly R. Osberg pits two piccolos—performed by Elizabeth Robinson’s flute quartet—against one another to evoke the “plucky” energy of the Sumatra chicken. Lanier Sammons seemingly pits two reeds against each other in the corybantic “Strata,” performed by Post-Haste Reed Duo. This is followed by a stark mood change in the tranquil ebb and flow of Sammons' “Bound.”
Nestled in the middle of this compilation, and perhaps epitomizing the Aerocade aesthetic in its pleasing subversion, we hear Isaac Io Schankler perform their bizarrely wonderful “remix” of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, in which, yes, “the bass is a bar late and the melody is a bar early.”
MORE ABOUT EACH TRACK
Track 1
Of Maker and Movement: III. Dance of Hands
composed by Jennifer Bellor
from Clocks in Motion’s 2022 Aerocade release, Oneira.
Credits:
Percussionists: Megan Arns, John Corkill, Christopher G. Jones, and Sean Kleve
Producer: Meerenai Shim
Mixing Engineer: Alberto Hernandez
Recording Engineer: David E. Myers
Mastering Engineer: Jett Galindo
Ⓟ2022 Aerocade Music and Clocks in Motion.
Clocks in Motion (L to R: John Corkill, Christopher G. Jones, Sean Kleve) (Photo by Ryan Berndt)
Track 2
I Am Not Perfect, Neither Are You
composed and performed by The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker
from Baker’s 2022 release, Chaotic Neutral.
Credits:
Sounds by The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker
Mastered by Melissa Harris Chambers
Ⓟ2022 Elizabeth A. Baker.
Check out Elizabeth A. Baker’s 2018 Aerocade release, Quadrivium.
The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker
Track 3
Fowl Play: IV. Cock Flight
composed by Kimberly R. Osberg
from Elizabeth Robinson’s 2023 Aerocade release, Aviary.
Credits:
Flutists: Elizabeth Robinson, Emlyn Johnson, Erin K. Murphy, Nicole Riner
Producer: Meerenai Shim
Engineer: Alberto Hernandez
Mastering Engineer: Anne-Marie Suenram
Ⓟ2023 Aerocade Music and Elizabeth Robinson.
Elizabeth Robinson (photo by Tammie Mohr)
Tracks 4 & 5
Some Thoughts About Time: Strata
Some Thoughts About Time: Bound
composed by Lanier Sammons
from Post-Haste Reed Duo’s 2016 Aerocade release, Beneath a canopy of angels… a river of stars.
Credits:
Post-Haste Reed Duo:
Javier Rodriguez, bassoon
Sean Fredenberg, saxophones
Produced by Lanier Sammons
All tracks recorded and engineered at California State University Monterey Bay by Lanier Sammons, Victor Gil, and Stevo Burschinger
Mastered by George Horn and Anne-Marie Suenram
Ⓟ2016 Aerocade Music and Post-Haste Reed Duo.
Check out Post-Haste Reed Duo’s other Aerocade release, Donut Robot! (2019)
Post Haste Reed Duo (L to R: Sean Fredenburg, Javier Rodriguez) (Photo by Jason Quigley)
Track 6
The Moonlight Sonata but the bass is a bar late and the melody is a bar early
re-composed and performed by Isaac Io Schankler
from Schankler’s single released in 2018.
Credits:
re-composition of “Moonlight Sonata” by Ludwig van Beethoven by Isaac Io Schankler
Download the Sheet music here.
Ⓟ2018 Isaac Io Schankler.
Check out Isaac Io Schankler’s 2019 Aerocade release Because Patterns.
Isaac Io Schankler (photo by Chris Schell)
Track 7
1232 Lyfe
composed by Alexander Lloyd Blake
from Tonality’s 2021 Aerocade release, America Will Be.
Credits:
Produced by Alexander Lloyd Blake, Jett Galindo, Joseph Trapanese
Engineered by: Jett Galindo, Joseph Trapanese
Mastered by: Jett Galindo
Ⓟ2021 Aerocade Music and Tonality.
Tonality (Photo by Michael Owen Baker)
Track 8
Pluto
composed/improvised/performed by Alchymie & Gregg Skloff
from Alchymie & Gregg Skloff’s 2016 Aerocade release, The Kuiper Belt.
Credits:
Jennifer Theuer Ruzicka: keyboards, vocals, programming, arrangements
Gregg Skloff: contrabass
Recorded & mixed by Jennifer Theuer Ruzicka
Mastered by Andrew Weathers
Ⓟ2016 Aerocade Music and Alchymie & Gregg Skloff.
Check out Alchymie & Gregg Skloff’s other Aerocade release: The Oort Cloud (2018)
Alchymie & Gregg Skloff
Track 9
Sonaquifer
composed by Gloria Justen
from Hannah Addario-Berry’s 2016 Aerocade release, Scordatura.
Credits:
Cello: Hannah Addario-Berry
Producer/Recording Engineer/Mixing/Mastering: Jason O’Connell
Ⓟ2016 Aerocade Music and Hannah Addario-Berry.
Hannah Addario-Berry (Photo by Tara Luz Stevens)
Track 10
Echoloquacious
composed by Matthew Joseph Payne
from A/B Duo’s 2013 EP, Things We Dream About.
Credits:
Meerenai Shim, flute
Christopher G. Jones, vibraphone and drum kit
Produced by A/B Duo
Engineered by Alberto Hernandez
Mastered by George Horn
Ⓟ2013 A/B Duo
Check out A/B Duo’s Aerocade release: Variety Show (2016)
A/B Duo (Christopher G. Jones, Meerenai Shim) (Photo by Human Artist Photography)