Always Becoming weaves the colors of sunshine pop and dreampop with Robert Kirkbride’s harp-like guitars and Melissa Grey & David Morneau’s crystalline orchestration and signature seductive beats, wrapping the listener in a sonic tapestry of ever-shifting patterns, pulses, and hues.
Complementing the music are nine hand drawings and an essay on humanity’s tilted view of seasonal cycles by Kirkbride, whose work explores the interplay of memory, ornament, and placemaking. These four tracks—Being, Always, Ever, Becoming—are designed to play in an endless loop.
guitars*
Robert Kirkbride
theremin, guitar feedback
Melissa Grey
trombone
David Morneau
composition
Robert Kirkbride, Melissa Grey & David Morneau
recording, sound design, programming, mixing, mastering
Melissa Grey & David Morneau
paw percussion
Foxmèr
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Recorded and mixed at The Arches
March 7, 2023
Robert Kirkbride appears courtesy of studio ‘patafisico
*guitars
Gibson ES-175, Martin Sigma CR-7
drawings
Robert Kirkbride
digital composites
David Morneau
"We are a channel that shows independent musicians performing live in unexpected places."
Recorded live on June 25, 2018, at Flower Cat HQ in New York City
Conception: Cristina Müller, Giuliano Rossi and Yuri Tavares
Direction and Production : Cristina Müller and Yuri Tavares
Music composed and performed by: Melissa Grey & David Morneau
Featured guests: Nicole Antebi, Jessica Bowers
Sound recording : David Morneau, Michael Campos, and Miguel Tang
Mixing: Melissa Grey, David Morneau, and Miguel Tang
Biophonic Beats is a structured improvisation for benjolin synthesizer and trombone.
credits
released July 15, 2021
Biophonic Beats was recorded live on June 25, 2018, at Flower Cat HQ in New York City
Music composition: Melissa Grey & David Morneau
benjolin: Melissa Grey
trombone: David Morneau
Sound recording : David Morneau, Michael Campos, and Miguel Tang
2018 Mixing: Melissa Grey, David Morneau, and Miguel Tang
2021 Mixing: Melissa Grey & David Morneau
2021 Mastering: Melissa Grey & David Morneau
cover art based on photo by Yuri Pires Tavares
Biophonic Beats was originally recorded for Ao Vivo no Casarão | Lado B
"We are a channel that shows independent musicians performing live in unexpected places."
Conception: Cristina Müller, Giuliano Rossi and Yuri Tavares
Direction and Production : Cristina Müller and Yuri Tavares
[cover art based on photo by Yuri Pires Tavares]
Biophonic Beats
gated benjolin, trombone, double bass, live visuals
We are joined by special guests Gahlord Dewald on bass and Marc Fiaux on live visuals.
Biophonic Beats is a conceptual response to the sonic ecosystem.
Friday, April 27, 2018, 9:30pm
Pine Box Rock Shop
12 Grattan St. Brooklyn, NY
Melissa Grey & David Morneau, bring Biophonic Beats, for gated benjolin, trombone, and live visuals, to Pine Box Rock Shop.
We are joined by special guest Marc Fiaux on live visuals.
Biophonic Beats is a conceptual response to the sonic ecosystem.
Sunday, May 20, 2018 11:00pm
Pine Box Rock Shop
12 Grattan St. Brooklyn, NY
Melissa Grey & David Morneau bring Biophonic Beats, for gated benjolin and trombone, to Pine Box Rock Shop.
Biophonic Beats is a conceptual response to the sonic ecosystem.
Saturday, January 27, 2018, 9:30pm
Pine Box Rock Shop
12 Grattan St. Brooklyn, NY
Melissa Grey & David Morneau bring Biophonic Beats, for gated benjolin, trombone, and hichiriki, to Thomas Piercy's program "From Tokyo to New York" on Spectrum's Female Composers Festival.
Biophonic Beats is a conceptual response to the sonic ecosystem. We are joined by Thomas Piercy on hichiriki.
Sunday, June 10, 2018 7:00pm
Spectrum
70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A
Brooklyn, New York
Melissa Grey & David Morneau with Marc Fiaux [ live visuals ]
Ab Uno Pluribus
Saturday, March 24, 2018
NYU Waverly Labs for Computing & Music
24 Waverly Place, New York
"ab uno pluribus" - from one to many -
A monthly, experimental, audio-visual concert event in New York City.
We present new exploratory experiences in the audio-visual realm. The versatile energies of select live musicians and video artists are synthesized into explosive though unrehearsed solo and group performances. You will never hear or see the same thing twice.
Curated by WvS
Produced by WvS & Miah Artola
Biophonic Beats
gated benjolin, trombone, live visuals
We are joined by special guest Marc Fiaux on live visuals.
Biophonic Beats is a conceptual response to the sonic ecosystem.
Sunday, May 20, 2018 11:00pm
Pine Box Rock Shop
12 Grattan St. Brooklyn, NY
Bourdon 60Hz is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to 60Hz. When one is asked to spontaneously hum a note, the pitch tends to match the utility frequency, or mains hum, because this frequency is integrated into our perceptual habits. In North America and parts of Asia, this frequency is 60Hz, while in the majority of the rest of the world it is 50Hz. Bourdon—meaning drone and derived from French for bumblebee and buzz—invites the audience to tune their individual embodiment of this ubiquitous tone by softly humming along as they listen. Bourdon offers space for contemplation and regeneration with an otherwise unwelcome frequency.
Melissa Grey: sine waves, live processing
David Morneau: trombone
Bourdon is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to a utility frequency.
Melissa Grey: sine waves, live processing
David Morneau: trombone
Bourdon is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to a utility frequency.
Melissa Grey: sine waves, live processing (trombone, guitar)
David Morneau: trombone
Robert Kirkbride: guitar
Bourdon is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to a utility frequency.
We livestreamed this performance of Bourdon 50Hz for Basilica Hudson's 24-HOUR DRONE AT HOME. Sunday, April 26, 2020. 5:30am.
Bourdon is a sound meditation tuned to a utility frequency. When one is asked to spontaneously hum a note, the pitch tends to match the utility frequency, or mains hum, because this frequency is integrated into our perceptual habits. In North America and parts of Asia, this frequency is 60Hz, while in the majority of the rest of the world it is 50Hz. Bourdon—meaning drone and derived from French for bumblebee and buzz—invites the audience to tune their individual embodiment of this ubiquitous tone by softly humming along as they listen. Bourdon offers space for contemplation and regeneration with an otherwise unwelcome frequency.
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Our livestream raises money for Arts Holding Hands And Hearts (AHHAH). They provide literacy, arts, and movement programs for very young children in vulnerable communities. During these moments of isolation and distancing, AHHAH is adapting to deliver programs online.
All proceeds from sales of Bourdon 50Hz [nº38] go to AHHAH.
credits
released April 26, 2020
music composed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau
Melissa Grey - sine wave synthesizer & live sound processing
David Morneau - trombone
Robert Kirkbride - guitar
Cover art based on a photograph taken by Susan Morneau as she listened to the livestream performance of Bourdon 50Hz [nº38]
Bourdon 60Hz is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to 60Hz. When one is asked to spontaneously hum a note, the pitch tends to match the utility frequency, or mains hum, because this frequency is integrated into our perceptual habits. In North America and parts of Asia, this frequency is 60Hz, while in the majority of the rest of the world it is 50Hz. Bourdon—meaning drone and derived from French for bumblebee and buzz—invites the audience to tune their individual embodiment of this ubiquitous tone by softly humming along as they listen. Bourdon offers space for contemplation and regeneration with an otherwise unwelcome frequency.
Bourdon 60Hz is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to 60Hz. When one is asked to spontaneously hum a note, the pitch tends to match the utility frequency, or mains hum, because this frequency is integrated into our perceptual habits. In North America and parts of Asia, this frequency is 60Hz, while in the majority of the rest of the world it is 50Hz. Bourdon—meaning drone and derived from French for bumblebee and buzz—invites the audience to tune their individual embodiment of this ubiquitous tone by softly humming along as they listen. Bourdon offers space for contemplation and regeneration with an otherwise unwelcome frequency.
Bourdon 60Hz is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to 60Hz. When one is asked to spontaneously hum a note, the pitch tends to match the utility frequency, or mains hum, because this frequency is integrated into our perceptual habits. In North America and parts of Asia, this frequency is 60Hz, while in the majority of the rest of the world it is 50Hz. Bourdon—meaning drone and derived from French for bumblebee and buzz—invites the audience to tune their individual embodiment of this ubiquitous tone by softly humming along as they listen. Bourdon offers space for contemplation and regeneration with an otherwise unwelcome frequency.
Melissa Grey: sine waves, live processing
David Morneau: trombone
Bourdon is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to a utility frequency.
Bourdon 60Hz is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to 60Hz. When one is asked to spontaneously hum a note, the pitch tends to match the utility frequency, or mains hum, because this frequency is integrated into our perceptual habits. In North America and parts of Asia, this frequency is 60Hz, while in the majority of the rest of the world it is 50Hz. Bourdon—meaning drone and derived from French for bumblebee and buzz—invites the audience to tune their individual embodiment of this ubiquitous tone by softly humming along as they listen. Bourdon offers space for contemplation and regeneration with an otherwise unwelcome frequency.
Bourdon 60Hz is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to 60Hz. When one is asked to spontaneously hum a note, the pitch tends to match the utility frequency, or mains hum, because this frequency is integrated into our perceptual habits. In North America and parts of Asia, this frequency is 60Hz, while in the majority of the rest of the world it is 50Hz. Bourdon—meaning drone and derived from French for bumblebee and buzz—invites the audience to tune their individual embodiment of this ubiquitous tone by softly humming along as they listen. Bourdon offers space for contemplation and regeneration with an otherwise unwelcome frequency.
Melissa Grey: sine waves, live processing
David Morneau: trombone
Bourdon is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to a utility frequency.
Melissa Grey: sine waves, live processing
David Morneau: trombone
Bourdon is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to a utility frequency.
Melissa Grey: sine waves, live processing
David Morneau: trombone
Bourdon is a sound meditation performance of sine waves and trombone tuned to a utility frequency.
