Gathering (selections) by Smash and Teeny with John Butcher

Smash & Teeny
Nilan Perera - prepared electric guitar & effects
Sarah Peebles - laptop & shô
with John Butcher (track 2) - soprano and tenor saxophones

1. looking glass 6:46 (Perera & Peebles)
2. hummingbird midnight 26:26 (Butcher, Perera & Peebles)

3. "Kaladar Kodex" (CDII video track online): https://vimeo.com/user913199
By Cinnamon Sphere trio (1998): Nilan Perera, Sarah Peebles (improvised music) & Chung Gong Ha, calligraphy performance.

Nilan Perera https://synapticcircus.bandcamp.com/
John Butcher https://johnbutcher1.bandcamp.com/
Cinnamon Sphere (1996 - 2000) http://sarahpeebles.net/cinnamon.htm

Full album available from the Canadian Music Centre via https://cmccanada.org/shop/cd-spl-305/
Released on spool FIELD 5 SPF305 (2004). Release details at http://www.sarahpeebles.net/gathering.htm

"Gathering" brings together the most exceptional music and video art works of the Toronto-based duo Smash and Teeny, created live in performance, in studio and at site-specific outdoor locations in Canada, the U.S. and England, between 2001-2003. In this double-CD debut of Smash and Teeny with special guest John Butcher, prepared electric guitar, manipulated natural and urban sounds, de-tuned shō and soprano and tenor saxophones conspire and collide, weaving impossibly beautiful improvised sonic landscapes. A stunning blend of saxophone science meets a universe of crafted sampled environments and ancient reed cries, all blended with guitar that has been lovingly altered to resemble massed percussion and string ensembles. Credits below.

Tracklist

1.	looking glass	6:46

2.	hummingbird midnight	26:31

Credits

released November 29, 2023

looking glass performed at the Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, NM, May 12, 2001; recorded by Steve Peters. “Looking Glass” was the American Strategic Air Command aircraft continuously airborne from 1961-1990 which mirrored ground-based command, control, and communications systems.

hummingbird midnight session Snake Ranch Studios, March 2, 2003; produced for BBC3 "Mixing It" & recorded for BBC3 by Gerry O'Riordan at Snake Ranch Studios; remixed at the Noisetree, Toronto. Vocal mnemonics samples performed by Kohei Nishikawa (recorded by Peebles).

All music was created spontaneously in live performance or in studio. Cover photo by Sarah Peebles; design by Amy Heggie.

Released on spool FIELD 5 SPF305 (2004). Release details at www.sarahpeebles.net/gathering.htm

© 2004 Nilan Perera (SOCAN), Sarah Peebles (ASCAP for the world except Canada, SOCAN for Canada), John Butcher PRS/MCPS)

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