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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Band As Community, Community As Band

As I mentioned in a previous post, the Good Graces are more of an evolving collective of great musicians, rather than a solid lineup of a few people. What I love about Atlanta is the community feel of the music scene and the mutual admiration and support a large group of musicians and bands give each other. Almost to the point of incestuousness.

A couple of recent events have highlighted this fact:

1) Thunderbox, one of the main rental rehearsal spaces in Atlanta, closed, a victim of in-town redevelopment activity. Bands in other rehearsal spaces reacted and reached out to help with everything from helping folks move their gear out, to temporary storage for displaced bands' equipment, to offers of rehearsal spaces.

2) Organizers of The Happenstance just announced there would be no 12th event. The collective musical shudder and sigh in the Atlanta area was palpable. The Happenstance was an 11-year holiday/charity/musical institution that for one day each year, created 6 new bands out of musicians who had never played together before, had them go off and create 3-4 new songs and learn a cover tune, then come back in the evening and perform to a standing room-only audience whose entry fees went to fund local charities. The connections and friendships formed through this event bound many of us from across musical genres together in ways that is hard to describe.

I participated in three Happenstances; 2006, 2011, and 2013. Kim Ware was a drummer in the 2006 event and, though we weren't paired in the same band, it was my introduction to her. She would shortly release her first Good Graces album and I would shortly join her collective.

On this tour, in addition to Kim, I will also share the stage with two other incredible musicians; John McNicholas (guitar, bass, vocals) and Tracy Clark (bass, guitar, glockenspiel, melodica, percussion, vocals).

I first met John just after he arrived in Atlanta from Tampa, Florida. I was a co-host of the Atlanta Songwriters Series, then a weekly singer/songwriter event held at the Aurora Coffee location in Virginia-Highlands (moved later to Kavarna), and John performed one of his first Atlanta shows at our event. I instantly fell in love with his songs and guitar work. John joined several bands, including Mary O. Harrison's band the Tiny Tears that Kim Ware was the drummer.

John was one of the first to join the Good Graces when Kim was putting together a live group. He has been a constant presence in the Good Graces ever since, both live and on recordings. John has also contributed to one of my Sensitive Chaos tunes, Seeker After Pattern's "Simon Stilites Dreams of Rain." And I joined John's band, The Sunset District, for both live shows and recordings. John is also a Happenstance alum.

When I first started Sensitive Chaos, my idea was to make it a duo, in the mold of Yaz. Synth-pop electronics with vocals. The vocals part of the equation never got off the ground and until recently, Sensitive Chaos has been totally instrumental. But one of the people I spoke to about the idea (though she may not remember it) was Tracy Clark, bassist/multi-instrumentalist and singer for Silent Kids, the Blue Hour, Mary O's Tiny Tears/Virginia Plane, Chickens and Pigs, and The Preakness, among others. Tracy is also a Happenstance alum. And she has been one of the Good Graces collective for awhile.

So a band from the same community of friends. A group of friends from the same bands. So far so fun!

Saturday, July 13, 2013

WPRB Music With Space Revisits Sensitive Chaos "Seeker After Patterns"

Music With Space

Music for the space between your left and right ears

with Michael Hunter

other showsSaturday, July 13, 2013
00:00 to 03:00
Electronic, Drone, Ambient & Avant-Gardemike@musicwithspace.comhttp://www.musicwithspace.com

Artist	Song	Album	Label
Klaus Schulze	Licht Und Shatten	Shadowlands	SPV
Hunter & Harrison	Solid Returns to Liquid - Melting	Phase1	Music With Space Recordings
Sensory++	Thre are 10, not 4	Boundaries of Infinity
Robert Rich	Ceramic Tincture	Humidity	Soundscapes
Robert Fox	Illegible Stone	The Fire and the Rose	AD Music
Sinke Dus	Fortitude	Akrasia	Cyclic Law
Sensory++	Now More Than Ever	From Mars to Earth	Self Release
Oöphoi & Louisa John Krol	Let The Night Sky Envelope Us	I Hear the Water Dreaming	Prikosnovénie
Patrick O'Hearn	Forsaken Beauty	Glaciation	Self Release
Robert Henke	Studies for Thunder	Signal To Noise	Imbalance Computer
Numina	Empire of Nothing	The Deception of Reality	Hypnos
Sensory++	Remember the Rovers	Music For Mars Missions	Self Release
Nathan Youngblood	Shearwave	Asunder	Projekt Records
Ron Boots	Cougarland	Dreamscape	Groove Unlimited
Sensitive Chaos	Seeker After Patterns	Seeker After Patterns	Subsequent Records
Neina	Polyhedron	Formed Verse	Mille Plateaux
Sensory++	Gamma	Particles	Self Release

Monday, April 30, 2012

WYSO 91.3FM keeps Sensitive Chaos "A Piece of Stars" in rotation

Alpha Rhythms

Sunday, 8 - 11pm

Justin Vanderberg, Jerry Kenney and Juliet Fromholt

Alpha Rhythms are patterns of smooth, electrical oscillations in the brain that reflect a transcendent and dynamic state of being. Sunday nights on WYSO, we bring you the music that will transport your mind, inhabit your body, and transform your soul.

The songs span the globe and universe. You'll hear danceable grooves from India and the Middle East and celestial soundscapes ideal for meditation or creative inspiration. It's a sonic journey that takes you to distant and exotic locations and reshapes your musical perspective.

In the first half of the show, Juliet brings you beats from around the world perfect for dreaming or dancing. Whether we travel to another hemisphere with artists like Karsh Kale and Dj Cheb I Sabbah or stay close to home with Douglas Bluefeather, you can tap your feet or tap into something deeper.

In the second half, Justin creates a unique blend of sounds to expand your aural palette. With artists such as Dead Can Dance and Ludovico Einaudi, he’ll capture your imagination. Mixing in some pulsating electronic grooves from musicians like BT or The Orb, he will stir the fantasy of the future within your mind. Finally, Justin will bring you back down to earth and simultaneously free your soul to the universe with music from sound sculptors such as Steve Roach or Jonn Serrie.

With special interviews and new music features from Jerry Kenney, we bring the people that create the music and the places that inspire it to your radio.

Every journey is different for every person. Please join us Sunday evenings from 8-11 EST for a trip that gives you the escape you’ve been looking for, at a price that everyone can afford.

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April 29, 2012

8:01 PM

A Piece of Stars

Artist : Sensitive Chaos

Album : Seeker After Patterns