This month, I hung out with my personal faves G. Lucas Crane who is a sound artist, designer, performer, and musician whose work focuses on media-chop-up collage, tape manipulation, sonic mind-control and time travel. His cassette-tape based archival sound practice explores the wild liminal spaces of hybrid analog sound worlds and new performance techniques for allegedly obsolete technology. His uniquely haunting Tape DJ style has been lent to a wide range of bands and projects over the last 25 years. In New York City, he has variously performed at the Museum of Art and Design, Pioneer Works, Roulette Intermedium, Issue Project Room and the Brooklyn Museum, and he has toured nationally and internationally as a tape-manipulation extraordinaire. He has been recognized for his sound design and compositions with a Henry Hewes award and a Bessie nomination, and was the co-founder of Silent Barn, one of the largest collectivist art space projects in recent history. He received a masters in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the Universitat der Kunste in 2023.
I finally did the math and realized that we have been having the on again off again conversation about collaborating on something for 11 years and now that we live in closer proximity, I have come to learn about our shared love for the tarot. Which ironically we didn’t chat that much about on air but our conversations did spark the ‘game’ we decided to play on air which was essentially that Lucas would pull the cards and I would pull a corresponding tape from the magical suitcase he brought and then we would align the card meaning with the narrative behind each tape which actually became less about the sound on the reels (which we did play) but more about the archive of memory it revealed in the telling.
Below is an image of how we were spreading out the cards with the tapes.
Stay tuned for more, we’re just getting cooking here. xx.
