Thollem / Interference by Thollem's Astral Traveling Sessions

This was a recording session organized by the folks who run the Interference Series and Nonessential Records in Flagstaff. Zachary Good was also traveling through, so we had a pretty dynamic sextet with him, two percussionists, two keyboardists and electronics. As a first time meeting between most of us, we freely explored a myriad of sonic possibilities. Thanks to Owen, Rob, Euen and Alex for all they do to bring adventurous touring musicians to their community and then outwards from there. www.interferenceseries.org

Rob Wallace (percussion) is a Lecturer in the Honors College at Northern Arizona University. He co-curates the Interference Series and has recorded and performed with a variety of artists from across the soundscape.

Owen Davis is a composer, percussionist, improvisor, noise artist, educator, and curator based in Flagstaff, AZ. He is currently the general music teacher at Sturgeon Cromer Elementary School in Flagstaff Unified School District. He also maintains a growing private percussion studio teaching the percussive arts weekly to students of all ages at the Flagstaff School of Music. His artistic work is animated by noise - searching out ways to find and make it in composition, improvisation, and other artistic endeavors. He is an active recording artist, improvisor, and new music performer nationally and internationally frequently collaborating or composing for projects and performances.

Zachary Good is a Chicago-based instrumentalist (clarinets and recorders), improviser, and performer from Pittsburgh, PA. He is clarinetist of the sextet Eighth Blackbird, a founding Co-Artistic Director of the performance collective Mocrep, and one-third of the clarinet/percussion/cello trio ZRL.

Alex Wilson is a Flagstaff based composer and sound artist interested in musical experimentation and exploration. Drawing inspiration from multiple genres, Wilson creates sonorous worlds of familiar and unfamiliar tones. As an artist, Wilson primarily pushes his own musical boundaries to discover new sounds and spaces in order to create an immersive concert experience in which audience members can loose themselves within the soundscape, allowing for personal emotional reflection.

Euen Brosseau is an artist, musician and educator.