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 the creative persona. It’s freeing.

In search results I don’t think people looking for my music want to see the stuff they’re always going to get from my real name, like my job and family.

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 vibe:

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 AI tries that didn’t make it:

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.

We were at Mayor’s Park in Cold Spring NY, next to the train tracks along the Hudson River.

Dedicated site for the project with Ben: smallworldelectronics.com

A real actual actively maintained blog for a real actual band, on BLOGSPOT no less:

http://WET TUNA

A 60 second Youtube of Fishkill Creek in Beacon NY by the Beacon Hat Factory (I made this):

A benign ambient drone using the three It girls of 2024: Microcosm, Cosmos, and Lyra-8 (I added it to my OPM playlist ):

A dark ambient drone (“FALSE FATE – Ambient drone with SOMA Rumble of Ancient Times, Lyra 8 and Hologram Microcosm”):

I did a major reset of the piece from August 11, my version of Josefin’s Waltz by Vasen, which I’m calling “I am at least trying to forgive.” It is better but still not good. The final product is more chaotic than I intended, and I don’t think I can fix that without redoing the base layer.

There is some good music among the bad. I learned how to do re-amping. In some ways the new voices are have a lot of flavor and feeling.

Also, I improved the video a lot. I was able to keep the feeling of calm but make the cuts more energetic. I got a little better at making videos while I was doing this one.

Even though the video is a lot better I think the music doesn’t gel well enough to find a place in people’s hearts.

https://youtu.be/9sL6DaGRdpk

I’m enjoying the new Dream Logic album by Lee Evans/Hippies Wearing Muzzles, which he described as:

I’m very excited to share my new album, Dream Logic, with you all. It’s a weird one centered around multiple experiments over the last year or so and it gets into some sonic territory my previous releases haven’t.