Chuck Johnson + Wednesday Knudsen
Sat, Oct 12
|Epsilon Spires
California-based composer Chuck Johnson approaches his work with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty using pedal steel guitar, alternate tuning systems and electronics. Multi-instrumentalist Wednesday Knudsen explores ambient improvisation and composition.
Time & Location
Oct 12, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Chuck Johnson is a California-based composer, producer, and musician. He approaches his work with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty, with a focus on pedal steel guitar, experimental electronics, alternate tuning systems, and composing for film and television. Recordings of his work have been published by Western Vinyl, VDSQ, Thrill Jockey, Temporary Residence, Kompakt, Ghostly, and Three Lobed, among others.
Between 2011 and 2015 Johnson released a triptych of solo guitar LP’s – A Struggle Not A Thought, Crows in the Basilica, and Blood Moon Boulder – that have become touchstones of 21st Century acoustic guitar. Balsams, his first album to platform pedal steel guitar, was described by Pitchfork as “singular,” and “a mournful hymn built out of layers of sliding strings, cascading with a zenlike stateliness…" The Cinder Grove delves further into the compositional possibilities of the pedal steel guitar in the context…