
Blurring the line between sound and action, English composer James Saunders' composition transforms 100 pages of performance instructions to tear, score, press, and write on paper, creating a tactile soundscape where performers Conor Bourgal, Lindsay Goss, Ryan Seward, and Andrew Weathers weave rustle, rhythm, and resonance into a fragile equilibrium between the mundane and collective sound art.
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James Saunders-composer
Conor Bourgal-performer
Lindsay Goss-performer
Ryan Seward-performer
Andrew Weathers-performer
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Label: Editions Glomar
Catalog ID: GLOM9
Squidco Product Code: 36824
Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard sleeve, sealed
Recorded at Boucher Art + Stage, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2025.
"Forming started with a performance of with paper, a piece by English composer James Saunders, whose work often extends beyond music into engagement with interpersonal dynamics, social systems. Here the score is the instrument; a set of 100 pages each with unique instructions on manipulating the paper through writing, scoring, tearing, pressing.
Something sitting on the edge of music, James said himself that the piece can often sound like "someone doing admin or tidyidng up." We performed the piece in the round at a small underground theater in downtown Colorado Springs. Listening back, there's a surreality to this recording, a wavering between intention and accident, the mundane coalescing into musicality. James gave us tools to create a situation for ourselves, we made a temporary space to live in."-EDITONS GLOMAR
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• Show Bio for James Saunders An English composer known for works that blur the boundaries between composition, performance, and social interaction, James Saunders explores systems-based processes, group behaviors, and the role of instruction in sound-making. His practice often transforms everyday actions and materials into frameworks for listening, emphasizing collaboration and the subtle interplay between control and chance. ^ Hide Bio for James Saunders • Show Bio for Conor Bourgal A Colorado-based musician, producer, and engineer, Conor Bourgal is deeply involved in experimental and community-driven music. With a background spanning performance and sound production, his work often focuses on intimate acoustic textures and collaborative creation across genres. ^ Hide Bio for Conor Bourgal • Show Bio for Lindsay Goss An interdisciplinary performer and educator, Lindsay Goss engages with sound, performance art, and theater, exploring the intersection of movement, text, and sonic gesture. Her work often reflects a sensitivity to space and the physicality of sound-making in live contexts. ^ Hide Bio for Lindsay Goss • Show Bio for Ryan Seward "Ryan Seward is a musician, composer, and artist living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His work is situated within and across a number of forms, including composition, improvisation, installation, performance, phonography, photography, sculpture, and videography. Ryan's work has most recently been performed by TAK ensemble, Filament, and Sam Wells, and presented at CO-OPt Research + Projects (Lubbock, Texas); Blo Back Gallery (Pueblo, Colorado); Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany); Washington Street Art Center (Somerville, Massachusetts) for co-incidence festival 2020; Die Station (Neufelden, Austria); California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California) for The Dog Star Orchestra 15; and Casper College (Casper, Wyoming) for the Second Annual New Music Day. His recordings have been released by Editions Glomar, emic rite, Marginal Frequency, and Sawyer Editions. He has previously collaborated with Gabriela Areal, Nat Baldwin, Jaap Blonk, Eugene Chadbourne, Tashi Dorji, Sandy Ewen, Douglas Farrand, Simon Labbé, Llano Estacado Monad Band, Bob Marsh, Cecyl Ruehlen, Daniel Ryan, Bret Sexton, Susan Wolf, Ben Wright, and Jack Wright, among others; and currently collaborates with Kory Reeder and Andrew Weathers. He has also commissioned and premiered the work of composers Eva-Maria Houben and Alexis Porfiriadis. Ryan holds the MA in Music from Wesleyan University, where he studied experimental music and composition with Ron Kuivila, Paula Matthusen, and Neely Bruce. He has also been mentored informally by composers Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro-Liu, and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé." ^ Hide Bio for Ryan Seward • Show Bio for Andrew Weathers "Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC and currently based in Littlefield, TX. His work engages with notions of place, tradition, repetition, and spirit, splitting the difference between folk music and Land Art. Weathers studied composition at UNC-Greensboro and electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, CA. A consistent presence in the underground music scene over the past decade, Weathers' work covers a wide spectrum from solo acoustic guitar to electronic noise. He also performs and records regularly with Tender Crust, Wind Tide, Satin Spar, Tamarisk, Llano Estacado Monad Band, Tethers and Real Life Rock & Roll Band. Weathers also produces recordings for the Full Spectrum, Other Minds, and Rural Situationism record labels, curates the Longitudes music series at CO-OPt Research + Projects in Lubbock, TX and works as a freelance mixing and mastering engineer." ^ Hide Bio for Andrew Weathers
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