Go download it for free.
I wrote it for a poetry reading by Aaron McCollough, who wrote a collection of poems inspired by John Fahey.
Elana Estrin and Raine Munkens played violin, I played guitar, Adam Clark engineered our little home recording session, and Blake Walker mastered it.
Frolic Architecture - Susan Howe and David Grubbs
I’ve been thinking through my next big effort, and this piece has been pulling me in. It’s hypnotizing—at once fragmentary, broken, lush, and enveloping.
Get the record over at Drag City. You can only watch this YouTube for so long.
This is an improvisation between Chris Cogburn (percussion) and me (guitar / electronics / voice).
We performed it on Feb. 28 as part of the Salonotheque experimental music series I organize every month or so. Higher quality audio from the entire program can be found here.
North Shore Tow Co.
Christopher Douthitt and Chris Cogburn
Here are a couple songs I played at the house show with Chris Cogburn playing atmospheric, textural percussion. I set my camera up on a loudspeaker right before we played; that’s why you can hardly see him and what he’s doing. It’s too bad, because he’s a fascinating musician to watch. Next time we do something like this I want to get good video and audio recordings.
Both songs date back to my Chicago days, and were co-written with Blake Walker, Nat Kudnanis-Grow, and Chris Warren.
