Entries by studio

September 2012

This month Guilford Sound offered up its services to VPL lab artist Karen Sherman. Matt and Dave worked with Karen and her artists here at the studio to develop the sound score for her newest work, and helped out with show production at a local grange. I am thinking Karen should probably just move to […]

August 2012

Dave and Sara traveled to San Francisco to check out the bevy of talent at Outside Lands. Dave noted that though he got to see some big names he hadn’t seen before (Stevie Wonder, Foo Fighters, Neil Young), what he most appreciated was the opportunity to see some great music in more intimate settings, like […]

June 2012

Produced by superstar Doug Perkins, Guilford Sound hosted 30 percussionists who gathered in the Vermont woods to perform John Luther Adam’s environmental composition, Inuksuit, a flexible piece designed to be performed by 9-99 musicians in an outdoor venue where nature plays its own part. It was a huge undertaking, but the rain held off, the […]

May 2012

So Percussion returned to Guilford Sound in May to record Where (we) Live, featuring Grey McMurray on guitar and vocals. The recording is a distillation of So’s performance work, Where (we) Live, which uses artists from different mediums as outside inputs to the creative process. Where (we) Live was recorded at Guilford Sound as part […]

January 2012

Guilford Sound hosted a fabulous session with So Percussion, who was recently commisioned by composer Dan Trueman to record his composition, Neither Anvil nor Pulley. So Percussion was chosen as Princeton University’s Ensemble-in-Residence for 2011-2012, and they recently played with Dave Douglas at the Jazz Standard. They will be returning to Vermont in May for […]