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Rosenbong

by ELKA BONG

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Bird Feeder 10:20
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2.
Bird Seed 10:00
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3.
The Neighborhood 10:22
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4.
Tide Pool 10:14
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Michael Rosenstein is an improviser who works with sound-gathering devices, amplified surfaces, salvaged instruments, and simple oscillators. He records extensively at ocean beaches, bogs, subways, city walks, in everyday domestic settings and as part of architectural investigations utilizing microphones, photo diodes, contact microphones, hydrophones, and electromagnetic sensors. He develops the sounds he gathers, utilizing them as raw sonic sources or transforming, distressing, and combining them, probing the unstable sonic results.

He performs solo as well as in ongoing collaborations with musicians including Jesse Kenas Collins and Howard Martin,  Steve Norton, Angela Sawyer, Andrea Pensado, and Vic Rawlings, as well as ad hoc performances with musicians such as José Rivera, Arkm Foam, Seamus Williams, Mickey O’Hara, and Abdul Sherzai.

He also works on fostering opportunities for New England artists and visiting national and international musicians to work together and perform in a variety of contexts. He is a Board Member, Treasurer, and Operations Manager of Non-Event, a Boston-based concert series devoted to presenting experimental music from New England and around the world. He has been co-producing the music series at Washington Street Arts in Somerville since 2012 and has produced the Variations Music series at Bromfield Gallery in Boston since 2018.

He writes about improvised and composed music for the web sites Point of Departure and Dusted.

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released June 18, 2022

Al Margolis - snare drum [1]; kalimba [2]; violin [3]; bass guitar with eBow [4]
Walter Wright - Board Weevil [1,3]; objects, contact mic [2,4]
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Michael Rosenstein - contact mics affixed to bird feeder [1]; contact mics placed on the ground and covered with birdseed [2]; electromagnetic listening device capturing a walk around the neighborhood [3]; contact mics placed amongst rocks in a tide pool at York Beach [4]

Mixed by Al Margolis.

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ELKA BONG Chester, New York

AL MARGOLIS
“... is some sort of evil genius working with sources radically altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact determination.”
~ Massimo Ricci

WALTER WRIGHT
is an interdisciplinary artist, his practice includes computer programming, music, and video performance. His focus is on “improvisation as a way of being present in the world.” ... more

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