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Live at The Wulf

by Steve Flato & Richard Kamerman

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Live at The Wulf (September 12, 2015) 21:36

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Recorded & performed September 12, 2015.

I've been playing with Richard Kamerman for a long time; 2007 or so. This is the last set we played together as of 2021-- a live set in Los Angeles at The Wulf. Towards the end of the piece, Richard introduces some spoken word that feels oddly prescient given that this was 2015, pre-Trump, pre-COVID, and it seems like a different time altogether. I defer to him:

"With nearly 6 years of distance from this recording, it is mostly divorced of personal context. I hear certain sounds and I go "oh yeah, I remember that supercollider patch! I wonder if I'll ever get the computer it lives on running again?" or a certain mechanical rattle will burst forth and I'll recall exactly which long-broken vibration motor it was. but I mostly find very little to clearly distinguish my contributions from Steve's (except I know he was definitely responsible for the ASMR samples). And I struggle to follow or predict the internal logic of the work. These are all good things.

And then I hear myself start to speak. To read. And it centers me like I'm at The Wulf again. It took me a minute to find the text in question but I wanted to cite it correctly here. Turns out to have been an anonymously published account of a March 2010 protest in Portland in response to - to put it mildly - ongoing police violence.

Evidently, it's included in this anthology: "Queer Ultraviolence", Ardent Press 2011 issuu.com/esco_bar303/docs/baroque_and_eanelli__eds.__-_queer_

It's depressing but not surprising that it sounds like it could have been written just as easily in the midst of the 2020 George Floyd protests. The state still sanctions the murder of people by police; all cops are still bastards and black lives still matter. No justice, no peace.

This is not just music. This is a sounding of protest."

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released August 13, 2021

Steve Flato - Electronics
Richard Kamerman - Electronics

Cover Photo: Luke Schleicher
Graphic Design: Steve Flato

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Steve Flato Buffalo, New York

Steve Flato is a composer and guitarist that lives in Buffalo, NY. His music encompasses many styles and techniques including microtonal electric guitar, generative process pieces, minimal text-based scores utilizing broken electronics, cut-up musique-concrete, and a piece written for the Spreckels Organ in San Diego, CA (the largest outdoor pipe organ in the world). ... more

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