John Wood
with
(but not always and certainly not limited to)
Oscar Schedin,
Mike G,
Bram Inscore,
Jason Golday,
Drew Jorgensen,
Gabe Noel,
Lisa Tremain,
Andrew Epstein,
Lewis Keller,
Cat Lamb,
Charles DeCastro,
Joe Tepperman,
Sam Robles,
Max Markowitz,
Damon Zick,
Corey Fogel,
Noah Harmon,
Scott Farr,
Marcel Camargo,
Devin McNulty,
Davin Givhan,
Douglas Pipes,
Peter Slocum,
Daphne Chen,
Gus Seyffert,
John Kirby,
Beth Schenk,
Matt Wrobel,
Alex Silverman,
Alex Noice,
Aaron Arntz,
Alex Lily,
John Gillilan,
Zach Harmon,
Alice Linn,
Keith Karman,
Mahatma Gandhi
......
"A merging of artistic techniques dating from several relatively distinct eras of human history– as old as the 17th century B.C. and as recent as 1982." -jw
LMM 2.11 - Fifteen Two Part Inventions for 2010
(artwork by Christopher David Ryan)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The story of the Jeopardy three-way tie, set in ancient Greece, with an all-star cast." - jw
LMM 2.10 - (a telling of) The Greatest Event In Sports History
(artwork by participants of the Learning Music Workshop at Machine Project, Los Angeles, March 2009)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Stories from various homes in the form of keyboard-laden, minimalist, hypnotic pieces that change slowly over time (horizontally, without the common verse/chorus, male/female dramatic structure)." - jw
"Rethinkings of winkings that were already really good." - jw
LMM 2.7 - Friends Who Are
(artwork by Jeffrey James Mohr)
September's issue of LMM is a selection of remixes by John Wood and Lisa Tremain. The album features songs by Mooey Moobau, Charlie Wadhams, The Sweet Hurt, Video, ForgetMeNauts, The Years, Willoughby, Electrocute, The Hair PUddle, The Peter Pinguid Society, and Joe Davancens.
"Ninety nine 20-second tracks, meant to be played in random order, composed only of sounds made by the human body and manipulated samples of objects I found in the kitchen." - jw
LMM 2.6 - Frequency Histograms for Predictor Variables
"Co-producers Jeff Eliassen and Dave Devine took Learning Music to Denver, CO. They artfully reworked these nine songs from the first season of LMM." - jw
Learning Music Monthly is a subscription based album-a-month series.
Download a free compilation of songs from LMM 2.1 - LMM 2.6 (originally released from March - August 2009):
www.grilled.ch/eese
Learning Music began as a collaborative album-a-month project. Started in November 2006 by John Wood (keyboardist for Inara George, Sebastien Tellier, Mike Andrews, Kelly Osbourne, Anni Rossi, etc.), the series included an album recorded entirely on handheld cassette recorder, a collection of music videos, an autobiographical musical written by a robot, and dozens of homemade electro-acoustic folk-pop anthems.
Twelve months and twelve albums later, Wood decided it was time to get out of the house. Inspired by the early works of Terry Riley, the Talking Heads, Storm & Stress, and Woody Guthrie, Learning Music became a live band, which has included as little as four to as many as twenty musicians at one time (usually averaging around fifteen people).
One year after the original series concluded, having established the band with two month-long residencies in Los Angeles and a handful of other performances, the album-a-month schedule now resumes.
What is Learning Music Monthly?
Learning Music Monthly is a collaborative, subscription-based album-a-month series. As a subscriber, you receive a brand new full-length album of original music every month. You can choose to receive your monthly issues on CD (delivered to your mailbox in beautiful handmade packaging, with cover art by a different artist each issue), or in downloadable high-quality mp3 format. Subscribers also receive unlimited access to our online archive of music, including a newly re-mastered album from the original twelve Learning Music albums released each month. Additionally, you are invited to collaborate in the creation of Learning Music Monthly, with remixes, covers, and sound donations, regardless of whether you are a subscriber or not.
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Yes sir, I'm glad that you asked - in fact, John Wood IS fearless! He was born without certain glands and cells that promote instinctual fear, something out of a marvel comic book, but real. John Wood is real. So, fearless promotion is nothing new to Won Ju, eurasian basketball phenom. 7 habitat for humanity builds, sponsors 3 aboriginal tribes simply from the royalties he accrues from the naughty by nature videos he produced. For John Wood, in the words of Frank Sinatra, it was a very good year.
your new music is amazing! i love electric letter, but am generally in love with all your music...gets stuck in my head for days and never gets old! can't wait for the first monthly installment to arrive at my door! cheers! jordan
sonova B****! i'm sitting here listening to your album, getting sentamental and out of the blue wanted to tell you guys how much i love the album and how proud i am to know you guys and ask when you're playing again. you're freakin playing right now and i'm missing it! way to inform me of your shows! can i be on a list or something, damnit?! hope your show is great... love randolph
There are people Who would keep a Weary eye upon a peep hole Of a door Looking for Someone to befriend before Saying simply I am guilty Of the want to have you with me So it goes We are those Who will say aloud in prose Thanks to thee For finding we The wacky Atma Family We won’t run From what you've done We accept you as our chum We won't hide If you come by We accept you in our Pride Of Lion Cubs Smoking dubs Or if your sober, we don't judge Thanks again, Know its been A creamy treat to call you "Friend"
Hey John Falsetto Teeth is playing at Tangier in Los Feliz this Monday 9/29/08. We are doing an early show, 7:30pm and its only a $5 cover, so come on out and get crazy with us on a Monday night. Falsetto Teeth @ Tangier Monday September 29. 7:30pm 2138 Hillhurst Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027 $5 cover. 21+
