Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
On Wednesday, August 2nd, we proudly hosted experimental electronic musician Matthew Byars’ (MD) project Attorneys General with experimental musician Brian Harnetty (CMH) as the featured player, and a duo between spoken word artist Christopher Appel (CMH) and experimental musician Chris Weldon (CMH) as the opening act. Performance took place at the Old First Presbyterian Church (1101 Bryden Rd. 43205). Video credits: Rachel Rew Wagner.
Our 2023 touring musician program is supported by New Music USA.
About the artists: Attorneys General is a project led by Matthew Byars of WYPR radio show and podcast Essential Tremors. In Attorneys General Byars and several collaborating musicians generate utterly improvised sound through a mixing board he controls, which allows him to capture, loop, manipulate, and destroy the sounds they create. Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous, but the inherent risk involved is, ultimately, the point.
Brian Harnetty is an interdisciplinary sound artist who uses listening to foster social change. He is known for his recording projects with archives, socially engaged sound works, sound and video installations, live performances, and writings. His interdisciplinary approach has been compared to “working like a novelist…breathing new life into old chunks of sound by radically recontextualizing them” (Clive Bell, The Wire).
On Wednesday, August 2nd, we proudly hosted experimental electronic musician Matthew Byars’ (MD) project Attorneys General with experimental musician Brian Harnetty (CMH) as the featured player, and a duo between spoken word artist Christopher Appel (CMH) and experimental musician Chris Weldon (CMH) as the opening act. Performance took place at the Old First Presbyterian Church (1101 Bryden Rd. 43205). Video credits: Rachel Rew Wagner.
Our 2023 touring musician program is supported by New Music USA.
About the artists: Attorneys General is a project led by Matthew Byars of WYPR radio show and podcast Essential Tremors. In Attorneys General Byars and several collaborating musicians generate utterly improvised sound through a mixing board he controls, which allows him to capture, loop, manipulate, and destroy the sounds they create. Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous, but the inherent risk involved is, ultimately, the point.
Brian Harnetty is an interdisciplinary sound artist who uses listening to foster social change. He is known for his recording projects with archives, socially engaged sound works, sound and video installations, live performances, and writings. His interdisciplinary approach has been compared to “working like a novelist…breathing new life into old chunks of sound by radically recontextualizing them” (Clive Bell, The Wire).
