Loren Connors: Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations Vol. 10 vinyl record

Loren Connors: Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations Vol. 10 vinyl recordBefore the spectral, romantic electric guitar miniatures for which he is celebrated today, Loren Connors recorded a string of nine solo acoustic guitar improvisations under the name of Loren Mazzacane between 1979 and 1980. The records feature Lorens contorted impressions of Delta and country blues, persistently kneaded into sidelong guitar excursions entangled with wordless, mournful vocal utterances, hummed and moaned in imitation of the dogs that

foreboding vocal delivery and its lyrical portents of departure

Fresh blood

Cory Arcangel

obsessively-documented life as a performance art group

1979) represent a culmination and transformation of Hunt’s investigations from across the decade

never-before published

represents an early high watermark in the collision of minimal and rock sensibilities that started to become prevalent in the late 90s and is an ear-opening listen even for those familiar with the musicians’ other projects

at a towering but overlooked figure in the postwar musical as well as artistic avant-garde

as a teenager and lived unhoused for long stretches of his adult life (in his words

and a penchant for atmospherics

Its bubbling computer noise

Joan Brigham presents Scott Fisher’s account of his career working with virtual reality and 3D stereoscopic imaging (photo examples included) and its intersections with Amacher