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Layne Garrett works with found objects, found sounds, guitars, and self-built instruments. Recorded output ranges from assemblage-drenched americana to a new cd of improvisations on guitar and prepared guitar; a record of improvised duos (with Scott Allison, Christian Brady, Ryan Jewell, Janel Leppin, Sam Lohman, Anthony Pirog, and Jenny Tucker) is on the way shortly. Solo performances have lately hovered in the heady realm of freely improvised explorations on prepared resonator guitar and homemade light-sensitive electronics. Other recent activities include: organizing a large-scale tape-loop intervention in Rock Creek Park (Washington DC), hosting shows at the Lighthouse in DC, and completing several construction projects, including a version of Glenn Branca's harmonics guitar, a set of hanging car-metal gongs in the shape of a map of the USA, and a large freestanding playable structure about which a collaborator said: "man i would really love to play that big baby for 12 hours straight it is obviously a meditation key."
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releases:
growing through : 2009 : cd : $10
"a precious sound document" (-thomas stanley, wpfw)
...the lost spaces, reconstructed... : 2006 : 2xcd (sockets) : 9$ ppd
"truly original and at times mind-blowing" (-foxy digitalis)
space superiority is not our birthright, but it is our destiny : 2005 : 2xcd : 8-15$ sliding scale
bull tongue top 80 (+1) of 2005 "long, patient cosmo-dronez with ear juice
acoustic guitar improvisations and just fine clackery." (-t.moore/b.coley)
projects, happenings, etc:
re-construction of a monument, w/ tape : april 5 2009
large-scale tape loop intervention, rock creek park
self-built instruments
i will build you something!
the cutest puppy in the world : improv duo with bryan rhodes
"wildly humanistic ministrations" (-germ ross)
etc:
video
audio at archive.org
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