Blank Forms T-Shirt (natural) vinyl record

Blank Forms T-Shirt (natural) vinyl recordUSA made Bayside 5. 4 oz., 100% pre shrunk cotton shirt adorned with the Blank Forms logo designed by sound artist Akio Suzuki. Black ink on natural shirt. Akio Suzuki is a Japanese artist whose work has foregrounded the act of listening since a 1963 performance contemplating the sounds of a bucket of junk thrown down a flight of train station stairs. Often considered a sound shaman or quester after sound and space, Suzukis minimal interventions

comprising musicians from America

antiquated electronic instruments abound—7 employs the Ondioline

1975 concert by the New Direction Unit at Yasuda Seimei Hall in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district

homemade technologies

then the composer’s wife

cover art (depicting an audience of cats and mice at the Leas Club

just intonation

Joseph Jarman (1937 – 2019) was a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of trailblazing avant-garde jazz group Art Ensemble of Chicago

features two pieces for cello and humming written specifically for Hamann by composers Sarah Hennies and Anthony Pateras alongside Hamann’s own “Humming Suite” and “Study for cello and humming

a segment of which appears here

and a rare return to pianoforte for the virtuoso player

and Steve Lacy