Arrival In Heaven, Pts. 1-2

I Can See Fred

A snippet of some barely audible talking got posted over in the BEEM Discord and a few people remixed it. I took the remixes as well as the original sample and made this. A long long long time ago I worked on CCMixter.org, an early 00s site for “mixversation.” It was a place that felt […]

April 12 in New Haven

Resisting Bits in the Time of Napster

Hand-made musical products from the time of Napster, around 2001. The CD case was hand-made out of sawed plexiglass with tin foil glued on for decoration and text hand-written with a marker. The CD was burned on my computer. The insert was printed on my laserjet. I made five, sold four at record stores, and […]

ASTOMATOUS track drop

ASTOMATOUS by Playing in Tongues

Philipstown Depot Theatre

Photos from my Saturday night gig…

Playing in Tongues

I’ve been using a few different names inconsistently – “Lucas Gonze”, “Playing in Tongues”, and “there is only”. I going to standardize on “Playing in Tongues.” I like that it’s only for my space music and not all the other stuff I do, like being a sideman, playing ultra-retro americana. It’s a nym to match […]

New Haven gig Jan 11

Update Jan 13 Video of the set by Heidi Rice Chuck: Another live recording from this set, shot (and posted) by Sam, who is part of the Never Ending Books coop: https://www.instagram.com/p/DEtQJoKtLl-/ Original post before the show To people coming to this site from that flyer, here are some sample tracks to give you the […]

Brooklyn gig Saturday night

It was fun to make this. I used the image generator in the Gemini mobile app. This prompt was “ambient music in a spacey dreamy bookstore on an alien planet.” The AI was incapable of doing text without hallucinations so I opened the image in Canva and added it manually. Here are some of the […]

Present Sounds Brooklyn Oct 3 2024

Such a fun gig. The smokiest room I’ve ever played in. Pitch black except for a clip-on light for my pedalboard. The crowd was listening so closely that at one point I played a clam and somebody ran out of the room in panic.