Sonic Collaborations
Katie Kroko and Andrew Israelsen
Consider the 3PM Moon
Experimental Music
July 20, 2015
Performed by Katie Kroko and Andrew Israelsen at Art Farm.
Katie Kroko: Viola, Bells, Lampshade Gong, Large Metal Chain.
Andrew Israelsen: Double Bass, Recorder, Bowed Cookie Tin.
3 Sentient Radios.
A meditation on the eeriness of a prominently shining 3PM moon in Marquette, NE. Serenity is usurped by the machinations of increasingly agitated sentient radios.
Kroko and Israelsen explore the strange subtlety of the 3PM moon through extended periods of silence punctuated by brief dissonant textures.
The three radios come to life, asserting their consciousness through synchronized bursts of noise. They overthrow their human overlords by reharmonizing their brain waves with amplitude demodulation, thus attaining thematic control of the improvisation.