On Repeat: Demo, Jazz, Sine

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ There’s upstream, and then there’s up upstream. As you find your curiosity pulling you deeper into the making of music, you take pleasures in demos of new functionality for pre-existing gear. A “no-talking” (YouTube category of demo) performance for a couple minutes on an instrument called the Tonverk is also a master class on ambient glitch, with a minor in dub influences. I played this on loop for an hour while reading at night. The performer is Keinseier, a film composer based in Hamburg: ▰ Nothing makes me happy as a listener quite the way jazz musicians teaming up with electronic musicians do, and a key example is the trio of Jason Moran (piano), BlankFor.ms (aka Tyler Gilmore, electonics), and Marcus Gilmore (drums), together for their second full-length outing, titled…