Author: traxlerstudios

Traxler Studios (NYC) mixed and mastered Timber LIVE @ the 2014 Bang on a Can Marathon, Winter Garden, NYC. Released with Michael Gordon’s Timber Remixed, an A-list of experimental electronic artists on Cantaloupe Records (2016).

Andy Meyerson “performs” my work, Structural Harm. Created at Traxler Studios (NYC), August 2015 for Slashsound Records.

I wanted to write a piece for Andy Meyerson that was truly collaborative – not just the resultant composition, but the process by which the piece was brought to life. I sent Andy home with three MIDI drum triggers and asked him to improvise. He sent me back a MIDI map consisting of only attack points on a five-minute drumset solo: kick, snare and tom. As if he punched holes in a floating progression of chords, Andy provided the rhythmic material through which I sifted a collection of sounds. I then edited and organized sections to form and taste.

We collapsed each other’s compositions to create something whole – a clear collaboration lacking control.

Without one another, all cards must fold.

Mantra Percussion & Jamie Jordan perform, The Days Are Nouns, for Paula Matthusen’s album, Pieces for People (2015). Recorded and mixed at Traxler Studios (NYC) for Innova Records.