Bang Klang and Rbkä

2022 - Ongoing

Bang Klang is a performance project in which multi-media artist A.P. Bergeron and myself improvise sonically to specific moments in specific places with instruments brought and devises available.

Rbkä is a collaboration between A.P. Bergeron, synthesizer builder Rivka Marie, and myself, that follows the same live principals as the Bang Klang project, while also incorporating methods of post processing towards the music’s released record.

Bang Klang was interviewed by the photographer and podcaster Peter Holiday for his podcast The Land Behind. Listen to us talk to Peter during our residency at the Orient Point Lighthouse here.

— Yet to be released —

2025 - Rbkä: sessions at Electro Spiral Sound, New Douglas, IL

2024 - Bang Klang: Polumbo Ranch, Joshua Tree, California

2023 - Bang Klang: After the Lighthouse & The Plum Gut Archive, Socrates Sculpture Park, CARDEA space, and The Orient Point Lighthouse, New York

— Released —

2024 - Rbkä: Spikehorn, Joshua Tree, California

2022 - Bang Klang: An Arctic Requiem, Multiple Locations, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Rbkä - Spikehorn

Composed of improvised performances recorded live off the floor at a mystical desert ranch, Spikehorn presents wide swaths of raw and bristling soundscape punctuated by fleeting oases of light and life. A spontaneous musical reaction to time and place, Spikehorn’s scorched but shining pieces invoke the desert world they sprang from.

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Associated Media:

An Arctic Requiem:

During the Arctic Circle Residency program’s Summer expedition three performances were documented by fellow artists in residence Wendi Yan, Rebecca Adorno, and aAron Munson:

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Villa Oxford, Within an old trappers cabin of the same name, AP and Leander’s first collaboration:

Live from Texas Bar, A concert for fellow artists in residence, the birds, and a polar bear:

Arctic Church Requiem, A eulogy within the northernmost church in the world: