1/12 Beauty Pill
I started working with Chad Clark from Beauty Pill back in 2008 when we were both having some pretty serious health problems – these discussions and late-night meetings fruited into brass tracks for BP’s upcoming release – the first since 2004. Being 2012, a band like Beauty Pill (and a thoughtful guy like Chad) can’t simply release a record. Instead the band (made up of some of my favorite musicians in DC: Jean Cook, Drew Doucette, Basla Andolsun, Devin Ocampo, & Abram Goodrich) – created a project called the Immersive Ideal, finishing the record in 3 weeks of intensive recording inside an artspace-turned-studio, and now have create a sound installation where folks can explore the process of making the record. On top of this, the whole thing is controlled by MONOMES! – an adaptable device that my friend Brian Crabtree designs and builds. This whole project has been a colliding of two distinct worlds. LOVE. Also, as a DC native — it was a total pleasure to work with one of my favorite bands. Check out this track of Afrikaner Barista – with horns by Brian Walsh, Brandon Sherman, Andrew Conrad, and myself. Recorded at CalArts in 2009.
BEAUTY PILL “AFRIKANER BARISTA” by beautypill
SCHEDULE OF INSTALLATION FOUND AT ARTISPHERE’s SITE