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The April Northwest tour with Rob Price and David Grollman was great and the final destination of the trip, the Boise Experimental Music Festival, was most excellent. My duo guitar improv with Joe Rut - otherwise known as Lumper/Splitter brought the house down with a set capped off with a hilarious presentation of Improvisational Surgery for Dummies.

My pal Steve Gerlach emailed to say that Lumper/Splitter is mentioned (w/ a pic) in the June 2007 issue (Andy Summers) of Guitar Player magazine! This apparently in association with our performance at the Y2K6 Loopfest in March. No link until next month, but it is currently on newstands (page 36-7). Seems we have arrived.

3 sets at the 2nd Boise Experimental Music Festival!

1st was a trio improv with Joe Rut on guitars and things, Krispen Hartung on Max MSP warped vocal and myself on Noise Swash. Very fun.

2nd was an improv with Rob Price and Dave Grollman, who I had been touring in support of for the past week. We did a short set and definitely added a little extra NYC to the festival after the amazing set they did Friday night.

3rd was Lumper/Spitter (Joe Rut and myself) in a headline evening spot. We did four distinct improvisations, focusing on different aspects of our playing. We started with some acoustic ambience (metal sculpture and objects), cycled thru a Glenn Branca influenced piece (me on unison tuned guitar, Joe on his new ‘microphonaphone‘ invention), morphed into a dual guitar improv and ended with our skit, ‘Improvisational Surgery for Dummies.’ Surgery involves us performing sonic surgery on an ‘ill guitar patient’ on a stagefront ‘triage table’ - brought to the room’s attention in dramatic fashion by our buddy Jeff Kaiser. All I can tell ya is we tore up. Joe and I both felt it going in, while playing and afterwards.

A good feeling and a good day, indeed.

photo by Jeff Kaiser