burn a fire

Dec 6, 2024

A cassette tape. The cover shows a triple-exposure photo of the artist playing guitar.

I have a new tape out today. Sunday December 8th there will be a tape release show at Lost Bag in Providence.

I will try to write more here later, and add some more photos.

burn a fire to old rotting things.
burn a fire to feel the warmth and glow.
burn a fire to survive the night.
burn a fire to my entire life.

Voices on Tape

Nov 20, 2024

Experimenting with texture and warmth by putting music onto reel-to-reel tape …

Vocals isolated, playing back from the tape.

The machine was old and the reels I was taping over were Christian sermons from the early 80’s. Sometimes the sermons would mix with my music, in reverse.

Sample of the sermons getting scrambled.

Living Room Floor

Aug 24, 2024

My last Mariassunta album took months to record. In a windowless room, alone with a narcissist.

We had a ritual in which my music was slowly sanitized and my sense of reality distorted.

The artist sitting on the floor holding a guitar in one hand and reaching towards something in the foreground with the other.
Guitar pedals, a laptop, and an open journal spread out over a carpet

I recorded my next album on the living room floor, the vocals in the bedroom.

It took a couple hours. I’ll keep the imperfections because I love them.

Sample of a new song, recorded at home.

Old Ways

Aug 10, 2024

Mar track, work in progress.

“DONE WITH THE FAKES”

This footage is from a livestream of “a Prairie Rattlesnake rookery (MegaDen) at an undisclosed location in Colorado. At this rookery, hundreds of snakes overwinter, shed their skins, and bask in the sun. Dozens of pregnant snakes spend the summer here preparing to give birth and care for their babies.” In this edited recording, a snake sheds her skin while a companion assists.

Serpent Goddesses and Dead Saints (Summer Reading)

Jul 24, 2024

A stack of library books on a wooden shelf, with titles like 'Goddess' and 'Cult of the Dead'.
A snake in a tree and a woman gaze intimately at each other, the latter holding an apple in her palm.
Closeup of 'Eve' by Lucas Cranach the Elder

I’m the Snake

Jul 15, 2024

Mar track, work in progress, set to a scene from Vagabond (1985, dir. Agnès Varda).

Snake Worship

Jul 10, 2024

A brown snake in a simple pose curled around the head
Brachyorrhos amaemus
A person with a snake coiled around their face and head
Port-au-Prince, 2004
Snake woven tightly into itself
Coluber Alleghaniensis
A woman with a blissful expression and long flowing hair embracing someone at her chest, her limbs curled like a snake
Top portion of Water Snakes I by Gustav Klimt
A person in a red head covering gazes into the camera behind a small snake curled on their face
A healing snake.
A man with long hair spills out from the mouth of a large snake, with a woman in elaborate dress looks on holding a staff and a bird
Athena watches a man reborn from the mouth of a serpent. She wears snakes on her back and the head of Medusa on her chest.
A tangle of snake bodies in a bed of dry leaves, multiple heads visible
Group of snakes mating
A woman stretches her body out with a relaxed expression, the lower half of her body mutating into snakes and the face of a tortured man
”Serpentine Super Woman“
A snake artfully coiled looking off to the left
Coronella rhomba-maculata