Entwined, betwixt and twisted – beneath a silken sheet. A before and an after, with a coupling on the beat.
Fertility is but assured, as opposites will meet. This is a fecund evening, where creation is complete.
Featuring alto saxophone.
This album reflects on the feeling of a world devolving into chaos and the associated anxiety, while grasping desperately for some kind of sense of normalcy throughout. It’s also about the retreat into apathy or aimlessness.
Secondly, this is an exercise in making musical choices that can stand out in in a world where music can be prompted into existence; or the resentment of even having to think about that in the first place.
Breaking in isn’t always about burglary – it can also refer to the process of getting a new thing settled. Fresh, crisp – but not yet pliable. It takes use and time for many materials to reach their optimal point.
Featuring clarinet.
A single uninterrupted transmission from bruitkasten @ Ebertplatz Cologne during a concert in September 2025.
Anja Kreysing (accordion & electronics) and Stefan Strasser (guitar & electronics) navigate dense sonic geographies of abstract texture and harmonic traces, where signals erode, tonal fragments emerge and disappear, and noise moves like weather across concrete structures.
This soundtrack is shaped through realtime compositional interaction rooted in radical listening. Cinematic in scope and associative in form, the music of Stefan and Anja unfolds like an acoustic film without images – a voyage through unstable sonic landscapes that trigger a vivid cinema of the mind.
It’s easy to unfocus – it only takes a moment. That moment can stretch and blur and become something else. Yet there’s more to all this than just being along for the ride. The capacity to experience is an unparalleled wealth.
Featuring piano.
It asks a little of us here – it asks of us a certain height.
We must choose.
Featuring Eb clarinet.
Study, practice, preparation, meditation – lofty ideals and worthy goals. Yet in the moment, all we really want is to scream through a tube.
Featuring didgeridoo, flute, clarinet, and tenor saxophone.
You can go somewhere, come back – and not fully return. It is not a place you are attached to, but an idea – an experience, a feeling, a mind.
Featuring piano.
When one considers, what is one doing? Meditative effort is effort nonetheless, though how meditative it is is debatable. Inference informs that most forms of energy are neither fully at rest nor in motion.
Featuring soprano saxophone and reverb.
Precious things are often hidden. We choose to protect what we treasure by shielding it from prying eyes, and more. To a point, this is rational – but to a broader point, it’s inevitably best to share what we have.
Featuring alto saxophone.
Smell, like sound, permeates a space. But smell is physically inculcated onto and into the substances it reaches, where sound simply bounces off. Imagine experiencing music as a smell, allowing the sound to stay with you.
Featuring bass clarinet.
Coming from opposing directions, seemingly in disagreement – the triads belie tribalism. Within their cozy group the harmony is clear, but when considered in broader context it becomes uncertain. Yet this conflict is illusory – though they duel, the outcome of their combination is in fact a larger and more beautiful harmony than before.
Featuring electric keyboard.
Once upon a time there were two mice. Despite their size, they imagined a world where they could do whatever they wished – where all other forces submitted to their designs. They had this dream quite frequently – essentially, every night.
Featuring metronome and saxophone quartet – baritone, alto, tenor, and soprano.
Commencing Tomorrow
by Charles Rice Goff III & Michael LaGrega
1 Uniphonic Dawn
2 Fresh As Copperfield
3 The Way You Wish Them To Live
4 Ever Ever Ever
INSTRUMENTATION:
Goff:
Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer
Yamaha VSS-30 Sampler/Synthesizer
Voice
Stylophone
Artiphon Orba
Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator
JVC TD-W303 Stereo Cassette Recorder
Sound Samples From Random Cassette Tapes
Tascam 424MKIII 4-Track Cassette Recorder
LaGrega:
Moog Matriarch
Oberheim Xpander
E-MU PX7 Command Station
LR Baggs Venue DI Pre-Amp
Fourness Electric Violin
Eventide Space
Mackie VLZ 12-channel Mixer
SOFTWARE:
Cool Edit Pro II Multitrack Recorder
Audacity Multitrack Recorder
Several Plug-In Audio Sound Effects
Amazing MIDI Wave-To-MIDI Converter
Musescore MIDI Scorewriter
Roxio 2011 Sound Recorder
PROCESS:
Goff and LaGrega recorded ninety-nine minutes of unrehearsed improvisations on January 2, 2026, at the Taped Rugs Studio in Kansas City, Kansas, USA. The duo produced four individual recordings during the session, each following its own unique trail of interactive atmospheres and moods. Goff edited these recordings into their current forms between January and February, 2026, cutting the total playing time by roughly half of its original length.
The elements of “Uniphonic Dawn” were recorded first, as a single, digital, monophonic track. Originally intended as a test of the wiring set-up, this piece ended up displaying some considerable interactive artistry between the improvisers. Goff retained its monophonic attributes in his edit.
The other three improvisations were each recorded digitally as well as on cassette tape, through a Tascam 4–Track cassette deck. The cassette recordings broke the instrumentation into tracks that could be edited individually. Staying as true as possible to the ebbs and flows of the original improvisations, Goff removed some of the less compelling materials, moved some other elements forward and backward in time, and sparsely added effects to various bits. No materials from any of the four original recordings were transferred to any of the other original recordings. No new elements were added to any of the original recordings. No artificial intelligence (AI) was employed in the editing of this collection.
THEME (?)
As Goff painstakingly worked to refine these recordings, he became more and more conscious of how they acted together to subtly reveal the rudiments of a metaphorical jumping-off point for a journey into a new beginning. (Of course, this metaphor was conjured entirely by Goff’s imagination, which has often been known to stray from traditional human behaviors.) Goff’s whole “new beginning” idea was reinforced by the fact that this collection of recordings was literally birthed at the beginning of a new year.
What’s in a name? That which we call a channel, by any other name would be as off-topic.
Featuring improvised electric keyboard.
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
So it goes.
So *something* goes. For now – until it becomes something else. Yet, still – the same.
Featuring bass clarinet, and breathing.
released January 29, 2026
Periodically, things happen. The specifics depend upon whom they are happening to. Regardless, it can be understood as the union of two sets – that which is expected, and that which is not.
The expected is best met with preparation – practice makes perfect, when a thing can be practiced.
The unexpected requires something else – it asks of us a certain height. To achieve what we can, and to go beyond it, even – especially – imperfectly.
Featuring clarinet.
Local optima aren’t – plurality runs counter to true highs. Yet such sweet spots are satisfying nonetheless, and worth indulging in from time to time. Ideals, subjective or otherwise, are still a matter of perspective, and benefit from such reflection.
Featuring electric keys and effects.
A baffle makes all the difference. If baffled, consider – shifted. Though much remains similar, a new perspective offers altered wavelengths.
Featuring overdubbed tenor saxophone.
Things – even great things – are imperfect. But, when considered in context, and in space, they can still be appreciated. Reflections on surfaces, delayed over time, give rise to a variety of perceptions. By seeing the signal in the noise generated by the signal, we acknowledge the signal for both what it is and what it can be.
Featuring flute and effects.
