A fellow theremin player
Hands off, as the instrument asks. The Founder considers this correct technique, and the correspondence is ongoing.
Recordings
The birds are recorded through glass, the theremin is played at a distance, and the pad is mostly a night thing. None of it is released. Recommended listening is anything where the horn goes somewhere and doesn't explain itself, played in the dark.
Heard in the lounge
- Pharaoh Sanders, with the lights off.
- Mulatu Astatke and the Ethiopian jazz of the 1970s, mid-afternoon.
- Alice Coltrane, when the weather turns.
- Sun Ra, for the long evenings.
In progress
Nothing here is finished, and the Founder would like that understood as a position.
- Magpie, 6:12am. A field recording, through the glass. Eleven minutes. Still being listened to.
- Starlings, Gutter. A field recording. The tail is audible if you know to listen for it.
- Theremin Sketch, Hand Hovering. No contact required. The instrument that suits him best.
- Pad Study No. 4. Chaos pad, paws only. Not a mistake.
- Untitled (Door). Recorded the evening of the argument. Do with that what you will.
Collaborators
The Club does not work alone. These are the colleagues whose work he respects, and who haven't been asked.
The keyboard player
A pioneer. Before anyone gave cats a stage, this one took a seat at the keys and played in public, with composure, to people who were not yet ready. The scene owes a great deal to that. The Founder does not speak of the early years of the keyboard, and the silence is a mark of respect.
Sayings of the Founder, as recorded by the Familiar