no.237 | Happy New Ears (and Eyes) Featuring Gregory Brooks, Austin, TX, 1.1.2025
Gregory brought his ukelele to the porch on the evening of the 26th. We recorded a few tunes, but this one felt the most open. We are tuned in an open C chord (FACGCE) a tuning I discovered from Loren of miss and Ultra Bloom. Loren used this tuning for PSO no. 208 in the spring of 2023.
Gregory is also no stranger to PSO. He played stand-up bass on PSO no.15. You can hear that backyard version of a Mountains in Stars song we recorded at his place back in 2018 along with Loren's song, glimmer in this week's PSO Newsletter.
PSO is about making things with and for friends. It’s about sharing a sip of time and a breath of color made in collaboration with the world's chaos. PSO has been a healing place for me and it is such a privilege to share these pieces with you. Thanks for being game for this unfolding experiment.
At the beginning of 2024, PSO curated a showcase of 8 artists over two weekends at Co-Lab Projects, and in the fall, we played a special show commissioned and created especially for the French Legation in Austin all while publishing lots of new pieces, podcasts, and newsletters along the way.
In this spirit, I want to keep expanding PSO’s explorations of images and sounds with friends and friends to be.
Let’s make something together.
I love to collaborate, remotely or in person, but if you have a piece you would like to feature on PSO (without contributions by me), by all means, please reach out!
Email us at info(at)porchswingorchestra.org
Gregory is also no stranger to PSO. He played stand-up bass on PSO no.15. You can hear that backyard version of a Mountains in Stars song we recorded at his place back in 2018 along with Loren's song, glimmer in this week's PSO Newsletter.
PSO is about making things with and for friends. It’s about sharing a sip of time and a breath of color made in collaboration with the world's chaos. PSO has been a healing place for me and it is such a privilege to share these pieces with you. Thanks for being game for this unfolding experiment.
At the beginning of 2024, PSO curated a showcase of 8 artists over two weekends at Co-Lab Projects, and in the fall, we played a special show commissioned and created especially for the French Legation in Austin all while publishing lots of new pieces, podcasts, and newsletters along the way.
In this spirit, I want to keep expanding PSO’s explorations of images and sounds with friends and friends to be.
Let’s make something together.
I love to collaborate, remotely or in person, but if you have a piece you would like to feature on PSO (without contributions by me), by all means, please reach out!
Email us at info(at)porchswingorchestra.org
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Porch Swing Orchestra is an art project begun by Barry Stone that explores the interplay between still images and sound.Since 2018, PSO has collaborated with dozens of musicians, artists, poets, writers, and activists to publish over 200 unique combinations of images and sounds.
Most PSO pieces are made on Stone’s front porch in Austin, Texas, but PSO has traveled to Spiral Jetty in Utah, the border town of Del Rio, Texas, Maine, the San Juan Islands, and performed live in the James Turrell Skyspace, The Color Inside as a part of The University of Texas Landmarks Songs in the Skyspace Program.
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