Prompts

from Brian Kalbfleisch
to Adrian Wagner

remote sensing
capitulation
confluence
Urban Creation

Finding our way back

Artists still find their ways, back to the streets to celebrate, the dancing, the feeling of feet on concrete, sleeping... awaken to our time. Here we are, playing from our heart. Our line...

Life doesn't do well in silence.

Glade Waterfalls

Facing the fear of solitary performance

Fear... such a curious creature. I can feel it as I step towards experiences that ultimately make me feel more vivid and alive. This juxtaposition of feeling afraid of the unknown and the power of exploring the new. And so in this moment, I felt fear... to keep creating in new places, in new ways. But also a rush of life – a power that is not mine to hold – but to let arise when I am not afraid to explore onward – in this magic of life we all share.

The Back-Country Experience

Transforming experience into sound

I toured up above Goat Slide with 40 lbs of audio gear, batteries, cameras, lenses, and tripods – to try to capture, in music, the feeling of touring. The silence and magic of those places, and that feeling before flight... ❄️

Recording in deep snow was more challenging than I thought it would be, even on a bluebird day, but I'm stoked to explore the merging of music, art, and remote places.

About the project

The Boss RC-505 is a portable audio production looper and mixer. Using a USB power adapter developed by BIRDCORD, this project explores the liberation of the confines of traditional audio production.

I seek to create music in an environment that influences the performance. Exploring improvisational vocals and instrumentation, this project at its core is about the experience of place and its effect on music. From urban landscapes, to deep mountain snowpacks... performance and creative exploration can happen in a wide range of places.

All audio captured live, on location.

Adrian Wagner


Adrian Wagner began exploring composition and improvisation on the piano at the age of 5. He grew up surrounded by both classical choral music and southern gospel jazz. Living in one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the US, he simultaneously sang in a choir and was pianist for a dominantly Black gospel choir and jazz orchestra.

At the age of 17, he moved to New York City to study classical composition, jazz piano and improvisation. He later furthered his studies of jazz and audio production at the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, MA. In 1999, he travelled to Zimbabwe, where he spent 6 months writing a thesis on improvisation in traditional Shona music.

This project seeks to explore the influence of the environment on performance. What is the inner creative dialogue that forms between artists and the space they inhabit? How far can this relationship be taken, so that the work itself is prominently influenced and given life to by the environment?

The medium of music and improvisation using battery powered electronic audio production and looping allows for the entire work to be created in the moment, existing as a reflection of the time and more importantly the space in which it was created.


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