Kantoendrato – 3 Moving Parts from Joe Belknap Wall on Vimeo.
Ambient playtime with three moving parts, more or less:
1. Kantoendrato
2. Roland Juno-6
3. Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai and w/mod for footpedal control of left button
© 2015 Joe Belknap Wall, aka Kantoendrato
A little play with one of my Nord Micro Modular boxes to calm the nerves.
Highlights from the KEVSAB set at the National Electronics Museum 2016 Electronica Fest.
KEVSAB is a collaboration between alternating.bit and Kantoendrato.
Music from KEVSAB is available on Bandcamp.
With apologies to Eno, who made music for airports, I’m making music IN laundromats. Recorded this morning at the Sunshine Laundry in Laurel, Maryland, while I washed and dried two weeks worth of laundry. All sounds programmed or sampled on the spot, and the piece was composed and recorded on-site.
Music From Laundromats – 01 by Kantoendrato is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Kantoendrato: improvisation studies for a Sunday:
• study for a project, “A Red Yes,” 2015-03-15.
• improvisations, “Shoots From Snow,” 2015-03-15.
2015-03-05 – “Blue White Night”
I had the great pleasure to perform a short ambient set at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, Maryland as a part of the Sonic Circuits Broken Mic Night for July 30th, 2012. I’d just come in from a long road trip, got home in time for the derecho storms that knocked out power and generally tore up the area, and made my way south the very next day, which was no mean feat, given that every traffic light in the county was out and lines at the gas stations that still had power were up to an hour long. There was a full house, the audience were cool and properly into experimental sound, and I had a great time.
I was a bit tense, though, and there was a hum in my gear I couldn’t quite shake, so I went with it. Essence of the moment.
Listen:
See an annotated photo of the rig I used here.
© 2012 Joe Belknap Wall, aka Kantoendrato
Had another great gig as part of the Baltimore Electronic Music Summerfest 2010, an annual 13 hour festival of electronic, DIY, and unclassifiable music at the lovely and lamented Hexagon. Great company, great music, and lots of fun. Yes, I am dressed as a nun. When your particular musical style involves long stretches of near-motionless attention to a small black box full of gear, you need a hook, don’t you think?
Listen:
© 2010 Joe Belknap Wall, aka Kantoendrato
I performed an ambient set at the first annual Baltimore SDIY Group electronic music festival—an all-day, all-singing, all-dancing wonderment of many musicians and delighted fans held at the former lovely (and now lamented) Hexagon gallery/performance space on North Charles Street. With a constrained set of gear and a state of sweaty calm, I ran up a soothing set of improvisational ambient music, from Casio to modular. Everything you hear is done right on the spot, with no editing, prerecorded materials, or preconception (which is why there’s a glitch or two in the set to humble myself before the gods).
Listen:
© 2009 Joe Belknap Wall, aka Kantoendrato
[Photos courtesy of Logan Mitchell]