A Few Concerns (2021)
My most recent album of songs with The Rhythm Method on Gold Bolus Recordings; meditations on subway breakdowns, political nightmares, post-war dramas, witch hunts, and loving entanglements.
With Marina Kifferstein and Leah Asher, violins / voice / toys, and Wendy Richman on viola / voice / stuff, and Meaghan Burke on cello / guitar / vocals; recorded and mixed by Bernd Klug, and mastered by Martin Siewert
Che si può fare? (2019)
After Venetian composer and cortigiana onesta Barbara Strozzi’s gut-wrenchingly beautiful aria of the same name, a quiet, glacial rendering, still asking after all these years, what is to be done?
From The Rhythm Method’s debut self-titled album on Gold Bolus Recordings; performed by Marina Kifferstein, Leah Asher, violin/voice, Wendy Richman, viola/voice, and Meaghan Burke, cello/voice; recorded, mixed, and mastered by Bernd Klug
Siren Song (2018)
Inspired by Margaret Atwood’s eponymous poem and Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey; a song adrift, for those left on the island, ribbons in their hair.
Live at Roulette, with Marina Kifferstein and Leah Asher on violins, voices
Kitchen Quartet (2021)
Part of The Wandering Womb, a larger work of music-theatre I’ve been developing over the past several years; the interior wanderings of ‘confinement.’
Live at South Oxford Space, with Marina Kifferstein, Leah Asher, and Carrie Frey on mixing bowls, spoons, and voices
Everyone sleeps alone in the funhouse (2017)
Music video from my second album, ‘Creature Comforts’; my ‘Nirvana bonus track’; rage, madness and dress-up games
Video by SimpMusic; performed by Didi Kern, drums, and my many selves; recorded by Oliver Brunbauer at FeedbackStudio; mixed and mastered by Martin Siewert; very special thanks to the sprites and spectres of Vienna’s Prater
Forever House - Spiders (2018)
From my beloved avant-grunge / sloppy math band Forever House’s debut album, ‘Eaves’; surveillance state paranoia, the nightmares of the ‘90s come home to roost
Video by Peter Wise; performed and written by James Moore, guitar, James Ilgenfritz, bass, Peter Wise, drums, Meaghan Burke, vocals/cello
Fenster (2021)
A sound walk/binaural listening experience for two violinists and two sound engineers; conceived as part of my ‘Care Pieces’ series, written for friends during the lockdown phase of the pandemic. This piece was expanded and reimagined for Prospect Park, our home away from home during that strange time, and presented by MATA Presents.
Performed by Leah Asher and Marina Kifferstein, violin; recorded and mixed by Bernd Klug and Meaghan Burke; video by Adele Fournet and Felipe Wurst; edited by Adele Fournet
And then one day… (2020)
For a quartet of readers; a small epiphany realized through hand games.
Live at Broad Statements, with Leah Asher, Marina Kifferstein, Wendy Richman, and Meaghan Burke
Forever House - Eaves (2018)
Forever House’s debut album on Infrequent Seams; the sloppy math of late capitalism, vasectomy waltzes, lost diner dreams and saddened saints
All music written and performed by Forever House (Meaghan Burke, James Moore, James Ilgenfritz, and Peter Wise); recorded and mixed by Andrew McKenna Lee; mastered by Martin Siewert
Creature Comforts (2017)
My second album of songs, a wild phantasmagoria of musical friends and stylistic explorations and a couple of continents; toxic love letters at the bottom of the Gowanus, methadone friends, and amateur ornithologists.
Featuring Carlos Cordeiro, clarinets; Marina Kifferstein and Lavinia Pavlish, violin; Leileihua Lanzilotti, viola; David Schweighart, guitar, drums; Didi Kern, drums; Simon Usaty, vocals; Andreas Humpel, sousaphone; Bernd Klug, double bass; Werner Kitzmüller, vocals; recorded by Shahzad Ismaily at Figure8 Studios in Brooklyn and Oliver Brunbauer at FeedbackStudios in Vienna; mixed and mastered by Martin Siewert