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St Celfer deploys a kaleidoscopic assortment of varied electronic textures with associated melodic motives in a free, improvisatory fashion, recalling landmark jazz fusion and minimalist albums of the late 1960s and early 1970s such as Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew and Terry Riley’s A Rainbow in Curved Air - A.M.L.S
BANDCAMP New & Notable 2022: Seattle’s St Celfer returns with four more boundary-breaking electronic compositions sparked with sudden bursts of melody. https://t.co/RX1PRhO68q
— bandcamp (@Bandcamp) June 6, 2022
June 6, 2022 (@Bandcamp - https://t.co/RX1PRhO68q ) archive: https://archive.ph/rAzu7BANDCAMP New & Notable 2023: St Celfer returns with tracks culled from a series of live shows, each one a showcase for his inventive experimentalism. https://t.co/0JhQ4u6VHA pic.twitter.com/xAMLm8LOEH— bandcamp (@Bandcamp) June 26, 2023
archive: https://archive.is/3s2nY
BANDCAMP New & Notable 2024: Always inventive, always challenging sound artist St Celfer returns with another album of glitchy experiments to dazzle & fascinate
archive: https://archive.is/0P2X3 & https://web.archive.org/web/ 20240611050229/https:// bandcamp.com/
New & Notable: Always inventive, always challenging sound artist St. Celfer returns with another album of glitchy experiments to dazzle & fascinate. https://t.co/zOwASzgdBg
— bandcamp (@Bandcamp) June 10, 2024
Jared Pappas-Kelly, invert/extant, Transmissions, In Our Own Words:an ongoing feature where artists and writers are asked to speak about their new work, ideas or projects in their own words
Wave Track #7 comes to us from St Celfer, a Korean-American sound artist and musician who splits his time between Sao Paulo and Seattle. His track, Fifty One, wastes no time announcing itself, beginning with a sequence of machine-like, harsh sounds that rise in volume before slowly giving way to a melancholic rhythm, interspersed with soft tones that combine to create a nostalgic, almost cinematic quality. In just under three minutes, St Celfer manages to elicit a strong yearning for elsewhere, a sensibility that encapsulates–and communicates with–the other works presented in Infrasonica’s Wave #7. We hope you enjoy listening. INFRASONICA.ORG
— bandcamp (@Bandcamp) June 6, 2022
June 6, 2022 (@Bandcamp - https://t.co/RX1PRhO68q ) archive: https://archive.ph/rAzu7BANDCAMP New & Notable 2023: St Celfer returns with tracks culled from a series of live shows, each one a showcase for his inventive experimentalism. https://t.co/0JhQ4u6VHA pic.twitter.com/xAMLm8LOEH— bandcamp (@Bandcamp) June 26, 2023
archive: https://archive.is/3s2nY
BANDCAMP New & Notable 2024: Always inventive, always challenging sound artist St Celfer returns with another album of glitchy experiments to dazzle & fascinate
archive: https://archive.is/0P2X3 & https://web.archive.org/web/ 20240611050229/https:// bandcamp.com/
New & Notable: Always inventive, always challenging sound artist St. Celfer returns with another album of glitchy experiments to dazzle & fascinate. https://t.co/zOwASzgdBg
— bandcamp (@Bandcamp) June 10, 2024
Jared Pappas-Kelly, invert/extant, Transmissions, In Our Own Words:an ongoing feature where artists and writers are asked to speak about their new work, ideas or projects in their own words
Wave Track #7 comes to us from St Celfer, a Korean-American sound artist and musician who splits his time between Sao Paulo and Seattle. His track, Fifty One, wastes no time announcing itself, beginning with a sequence of machine-like, harsh sounds that rise in volume before slowly giving way to a melancholic rhythm, interspersed with soft tones that combine to create a nostalgic, almost cinematic quality. In just under three minutes, St Celfer manages to elicit a strong yearning for elsewhere, a sensibility that encapsulates–and communicates with–the other works presented in Infrasonica’s Wave #7. We hope you enjoy listening. INFRASONICA.ORG
— bandcamp (@Bandcamp) June 26, 2023
New & Notable: Always inventive, always challenging sound artist St. Celfer returns with another album of glitchy experiments to dazzle & fascinate. https://t.co/zOwASzgdBg
— bandcamp (@Bandcamp) June 10, 2024
Wave Track #7 comes to us from St Celfer, a Korean-American sound artist and musician who splits his time between Sao Paulo and Seattle. His track, Fifty One, wastes no time announcing itself, beginning with a sequence of machine-like, harsh sounds that rise in volume before slowly giving way to a melancholic rhythm, interspersed with soft tones that combine to create a nostalgic, almost cinematic quality. In just under three minutes, St Celfer manages to elicit a strong yearning for elsewhere, a sensibility that encapsulates–and communicates with–the other works presented in Infrasonica’s Wave #7. We hope you enjoy listening. INFRASONICA.ORG
December 7, 2022: Energy Bars March 8, 2023: Marathon Drummer Salmagundi August 2, 2023: Dark Matter November 29, 2023: The Color of Noise March 20, 2024: Controlled Re-Entry June 26, 2024: Unpredictable & Inevitable on WFMU
December 7, 2022: Energy Bars March 8, 2023: Marathon Drummer Salmagundi August 2, 2023: Dark Matter November 29, 2023: The Color of Noise March 20, 2024: Controlled Re-Entry June 26, 2024: Unpredictable & Inevitable on WFMU
[16:04] St Celfer: Suite #6 - Etude. From Suites #1–9 (Bandcamp, 2020) with St Celfer AKA John Parker.
[18:24] St Celfer: Suite #3 - Dirge 1. From Suites #1–9 (Bandcamp, 2020) with St Celfer AKA John Parker⠀
Voice break with Charles Dodge: Earth's Magnetic Field
[29:30] St Celfer: Suite #7 - Serenade No Cry. From Suites #1–9 (Bandcamp, 2020) with St Celfer AKA John Parker⠀
[8:30] St Celfer AKA John Parker: Prelude. From Suite #5 (Bandcamp, 2019)
[27:55] St Celfer: Divertimento. From Suite #2 (Bandcamp, 2019)
SET 1: Sorey, Crispell and early Crumb, 1. St Celfer: Impromptu. From Suite #2 (Bandcamp, 2019)
https://www.mixcloud.com/radioeclectus/radio-eclectus-015-haas-sorey-crispell-crumb-oct-24-2019/ *
::SEATTLE September 28, 2024, SPAM New Media Festival, Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle Seattle BIG BLACK played here on August 11, 1987 (1 2 3 4 5) + Kurt Cobain attendedJUNE 15, 2024 Wayward Music Series Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., 4th Floor, Seattle
:: APRIL 13, 2024 :: The Shed, 6631 Ellis Ave S, Seattle WA
::NEW YORK:: MARCH 21, 2024 Fire Over Heaven1665 Norman St,
Ridgewood NY 11385
:: OAKLAND :: TAC Temescal Art Center, November 4
:: SÃO PAULO :: 2x SHOWS
- Casa LOCOMOTIVA, 20/9
- Instituto de Artes da UNESP, Sala de Expo, Barra Funda, 22/9
:: SAN DIEGO :: 26/8 Facebook
:: SXSW :: Overflow Fest, Super Happy Funland, Houston, 18/3
:: SEATTLE :: Have You Eaten? 18/2
:: SEATTLE :: January, Friday the 13th, Wayward Music Series
:: APRIL 13, 2024 :: The Shed, 6631 Ellis Ave S, Seattle WA
::NEW YORK:: MARCH 21, 2024 Fire Over Heaven
Ridgewood NY 11385
:: OAKLAND :: TAC Temescal Art Center, November 4
:: SÃO PAULO :: 2x SHOWS
- Casa LOCOMOTIVA, 20/9
- Instituto de Artes da UNESP, Sala de Expo, Barra Funda, 22/9
:: SAN DIEGO :: 26/8 Facebook
:: SXSW :: Overflow Fest, Super Happy Funland, Houston, 18/3
:: SEATTLE :: Have You Eaten? 18/2
:: SEATTLE :: January, Friday the 13th, Wayward Music Series
St Celfer (John MacDougall Parker) ft. Christin Call as part of the Wayward Music Series at the Chapel Performance...
Posted by St Celfer on Friday, January 20, 2023
St Celfer Performance at ICOSA Collective, December 12, 2020
Austin, TX
St Celfer’s musical work “March of the Covids” will be performed at the ICOSA space in an unusual way – as an abstract, encoded YouTube video. The song made its original appearance at the Casagaleria art space in São Paulo, Brazil as a 16 channel audio composition “distributed” in the gallery through directional speakers. At ICOSA the work will be presented virtually in the form of video projections, in a new, collaborative incarnation. “Covids” will be “played” as one of a suite of recent compositions by St Celfer, who is currently based in Seattle, and his long-time collaborator Tom Moody, a New York artist and musician.
Eleven tracks by the two artists have been converted to video using Pitahaya, a software program created by John Romero. Pitahaya turns the audio (which can still be heard) into a stream of random pixels resembling TV snow and QR codes. Uploaded to YouTube, the 35-minute video will be played by the gallery and may be watched like a Stan Brakhage-like abstraction, with fluctuating, chaotic correspondences between picture and sound. The video has embedded content but there is nothing subliminal or mystical about it: instead, Pitahaya has been used to convert a CD-quality version of the eleven songs, which can be downloaded and decoded as explained at http://jollo.org/LNT/doc/pitahaya/.
The audiovisual performance runs from 3-6 PM Central on December 12, 2020.
Biographical information
St Celfer has drawings (http://stcelfer.com/) that have been recently acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art, São Paulo and has an upcoming release of “9 Suites” (https://stcelfer.bandcamp.com/). He has exhibited and performed primarily in New York as John Parker (https://eyekhan.com/) among other aliases.
Tom Moody is a New York-based artist (https://tommoody.us) and musician (https://tommoody.bandcamp.com/). Most recently his work was seen in the exhibition "PAUSE (prelude)" at Künstlerverbund im Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
John Romero is an artist and programmer who was a member of the Computers Club collective (under the name Rene Abythe) and was profiled on Rhizome.org at https://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/dec/08/artist-profile-rene-abythe/
His website is at http://jollo.org/LNT/home/fanfare/
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Guide to St Celfer's Musical Styles Review of St Celfer's New Project
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READ THE CONVERSATION WITH TOM MOODY HERE
with Jess Henderson as part of the project, "Band of Burnouts"
with Christin Call and The Shed, Seattle
READ THE CONVERSATION WITH TOM MOODY HERE