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Methods Body

37.7K streams

37,731

Methods Body

37.7K streams

37,731

Plural Not Possessive

3.7K streams

3,669

Claimed Events, Pt. 3: Identify Them (...

2.7K streams

2,658

Claimed Events, Pt. 3: Identify Them (...

2.7K streams

2,658

Snares

1.4K streams

1,375

Methods Body Remixed by Our Friends

Quiet, Pt. 1: They Didn't Come Here (R...

Quiet, Pt. 1: They Didn't Come Here (R...

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METHODS BODY (Portland, OR, USA) creates original sound art and music using custom tuning systems, involuted polyrhythms, and the cadences of language. John Niekrasz (Ecstatic Peace, ESP-Disk') and Luke Wyland (The Leaf Label, Hometapes, Crammed Records) use bespoke live-sampling technologies and meta-cognitive compositions to inhabit waves of subliminal melody and deep, uncanny grooves. Methods Body builds on the non-traditional tunings of Terry Riley, the experimental energy of Éliane Radigue and Silver Apples, and the refracted electronics of Aphex Twin to create a sonic language completely their own. Together, Wyland and Niekrasz have been pushing the bounds of rhythm and melody for more than a dozen years. Their duos, AU and Why I Must Be Careful, were lauded as groundbreaking and breathtaking. Both Niekrasz and Wyland are idiosyncratic innovators on their instruments and use performance as an arena for legitimate connection and energetic exchange. Methods Body’s first full-length album (forthcoming in May 2020) is born from long-term composing and recording sessions held in old-growth forests and remote deserts.