Vibrating Skull Trio

VS3's debut release on Gilded Records
A selection of improvisations culled from a summer's worth of recordings

Recorded by Eli Namay
Mixed by Eli Namay and Phil Sudderberg
Mastered by Dan Pierson

released October 15, 2016

Vibrating Skull Trio is...

John McCowen -- clarinet and drum resonator
Eli Namay -- upright bass and prepared guitar
Phil Sudderberg -- drumset

Alex Grimes - The Only Improvisation is Being Born

A piece by Alex Grimes, recorded live at The Option Series at Experimental Sound Studio. This piece features tablature notation for the bass part, and a set of instructions on how to relate to an fixed audio track for the clarinet part.

Eli Namay - amplified upright bass

Emily Beisel - amplified bass clarinet

Entropy EP & An Object that is Not Oriented - Namay /Sudderberg

Entropy Ep was recorded in the Bridgeport Neighborhood apartment of Eli & Phil, spring 2015. AOtiNO was recorded in their Bridgeport practice space shortly thereafter. AOtiNO was written for the duo by Alex Grimes. It consists of decoupled physical parameters depicted on several staves for each instrument, utilizing a proprietary mix of traditional notation and line tablature.

credits

released February 2016

Eli Namay - upright bass
Phil Sudderberg - drums & percussion
Alex Grimes - composition (An Object that is Not Oriented)

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Eli Namay.