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The Wisdom to Know the Difference
The Wisdom to Know the Difference
The Wisdom to Know the Difference is an electroacoustic solo project exploring the limits and possibilities of control and agency on both a sonic and spiritual level. Using Ableton Live, contact mic drum triggers, and samplers, I process acoustic drums and vocals, blend them with lush textures, and trigger other sonic events from the drumkit at varying degrees of randomness. Song-structured webs of intended and unintended sonic consequences emerge in compositions that explore grief, ancestral communion, astrology, social anxiety, archetypal parts of self, and other themes related to mental health and healing.
During the pandemic, I self-engineered a record of the first set of compositions from this project. "The Wisdom To Know the Difference Vol. 1" - the self-produced debut full length album of this project - was released in July of 2024. The 11-track album highlights and integrates my artistry as a drummer, composer, improviser, producer. I toured the project to promote the album in summer and fall of 2024 through of the rust belt, east coast, eastern Canada, and the midwest.
Since its premiere in 2016, I've had over 50 performances of The Wisdom to Know the Difference in over 30 cities across the Eastern US and Canada. This has included performances at the Detroit Institute of Arts and The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
In Spring 2023, I collaborated with Detroit-based performance art duo Thank You So Much for Coming and filmmaker Zach Zweifler to produce a music video for "Fire" - a single from the upcoming full length album. "Fire" is a playful tongue-in-cheek song about social anxiety, its hyperbolically self-depracating thought spirals, and the struggle not to be consumed by them. The video portrays these thought spirals through absurd condemnations of an inconsequential social blunder. The video was released along with the album single in April of 2024.
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