is sound. is connor bell. is in louisville, ky usa.
Here are some songs compiled on an EP called Louder Than Life. Download direct on my Releases page or check it out on Bandcamp. Tim Furnish took the picture and Dustin Marcum did the collage. Grateful for their friendship.
New release available on Bandcamp, but feel free to just download for free on my Releases page here too. This is the third in my series of modular synth releases called This Is My Horn where I’m really trying to focus on building an immediate and physical relationship with the synthesizer, as if I were a jazz musician playing a horn. The emphasis is on building a deeper relationship with the instrument as opposed to endless reconfiguring, which plagues many synthesizer users.
I decided to finally share some songs from over a decade ago now. Since most of the songs were loosely inspired by a handful of Piotr Szulkin movies from the 1980s, I figured that’d be a suitable name for the release. As always, you can download it for free over on my Releases page or preview and download on Bandcamp. The cover is a photo by my pal Billy Gomberg, who routinely shares beautiful music and photography. Definitely check out his work.
Hi all, excited to share this before the year comes to a close. Flocking 23 is a collection of recordings assembled from live sampler performances from the shows I played in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison in the fall of 2023. No step sequencing. No ‘pressing play’. Just me and a sampler. I asked my friend Josh Mason if he wanted to take a stab at some art and I’m happy it’s all come together.
As normal, you can download this in MP3 and WAV format if you go to my releases page. Feel free to send some money my way if that’s important, it’s certainly appreciated, but don’t feel it’s necessary. Otherwise, if you want to sample or purchase through Bandcamp, it’s available there too. Info and words from Josh below his art.
23.09 develop
23.10 record
23.11 breathe
23.12 edit
24.01 sweeten
24.02 breathe
24.03 re-sweeten
24.12 art
Assembled from live sampler performances from the following shows:
23.10.19 @ tritriangle, chicago, il, usa
23.10.20 @ the jazz gallery, milwaukee, wi usa
23.10.21 @ communication, madison, wi usa
Sound by Connor Bell
Sweetening by Greg Davis
Art by Josh Mason
i was thinking about when connor had asked me to make some digital flyers for a run of shows he was playing in the midwest (which ended up being the source material for this release) and it reminded me of all the hours i spent in kinkos as a younger person over the years making flyers for shows, and given that i wanted to do something with my hands for this (and eschew the speed of digital construction almost entirely, which he graciously tolerated over too long a time period) i decided to still work with “photocopiers” by employing toner transfers with solvents in order to create an assemblage of what felt like handbills (and was loosely, or subconsciously influenced, by constructivist works) and took it a step further by drawing parallels to the angularity of the flocking material…hard cuts, waveform discontinuities, etc.