Buddha Box 2.0

Last year I composed a new piece for Obey Convention IV called Buddha Box 2.0 for four electric guitars and electric bass. The piece is very simple to play and I've uploaded it for all to download and in my dreamy hopes, perhaps in some circumstance, a group of beings might want to play it.

You can listen to the performance here on soundcloud. I think I had more fun making the score than the piece - The score is actually mostly text based. The graphic score exists mostly as an accompaniment to help the performers "get in the vibe" although neither the text or graphic score existed at the time of the performance, I just told them what to do. I am planing on doing some screen printed versions of the score as well.

Thanks to Emily Robb, Ryan Kirk, Jason Eastwood, and Luke Corrigan who all helped realize this piece and a special thanks to Darcy Spidel for programing it and Lukas Pearse for recording it.

You can download all the files you need HERE.

PS. This is Avant-Lard's 100 post! Thank you all for following!

-Z

Buddha Box 2.0 by zacharyfairbrother

RA-DAWN SUN CULT - A GUIDE TO THE NEXT AGE - AVL - 01

The Ra-Dawn Sun Cult was a project that lasted between Fall 2007 and Winter 2008. The project was basically headed by myself, Ryan Kirk, and Daniel Miller. Occasionally we would get together chant and drone out. This project reached its climax when we got to open for Nadja, and the Shearing Pinx at the Obey Convention II. The Cult had 9 members strong at the time, we all donned robes and face paint, and covered "Sunshine Girl" by Faust and "We Will Fall" by the Stooges, interspersed with freely improvised vocal chants, oh ya, we also had a pigs head with insense burning from it's nose, it was pretty bad ass. Anyways, we made a CD-R, did some artwork, and tried to sell some of them, I don't think we had much luck, so I am releasing it as Avant-Lard's first digital download release. I hope you enjoy it! Artwork is below! Download here...

http://rapidshare.com/files/274826882/Guide_to_the_Next_Age.zip

-Z


Photos by Tobias Rochman


Photos by Elana Mayers