Something Like Sound

I once told Eric Peterson he was the “most on-top-of-it person I know.” Juggling a school workload, practicing and playing in at least 4 different bands, web design, and occasional video-work, Peterson was understandably busy. Last week, when I received an email from Eric, I wasn’t entirely surprised to hear that he’s scaling back on his musical projects to focus on other endeavors.

While my personal hope is that Peterson’s musical hiatus will not be permanent, there is still one final chance to see the multi-instrumentalist songwriter perform his craft live. On Saturday, December 18th Peterson’s Roger, Roll will make its final appearance at the Hi-Dive. Furthermore, another blog-favorite- Hello Kavita- will be playing their last show that evening. Given the “farewell” nature of this show, it’s certainly not one to miss.

As a bittersweet bonus, the entire Roger, Roll catalog has been made available as a free download in addition to a handful of demos and other such recordings. Give a listen to 2008′s The Blackwell Gate (embedded below) and click through the links for other Roger, Roll recordings.

Links: Random Noise Generator | Dodging and Burning | The Blackwell Gate | Polaroid In Reverse

When I woke up this morning I had to drag myself out of bed. The grey (or gray?) skies and cold weather almost had me convinced that staying in bed would have been a better choice. After finally mustering up the courage to face the day I checked my email. To my delight there was one in there from friend of the blog Eric Peterson (of Houses, Roger Roll, Old Radio, and every other band in Denver). From his message:

The gist of it is that I’m working with my friend Jennifer Brookes on a collaborative art project called tangled; we weave.  Each week, Jenny will take about 180 photographs and string them together into a stop-motion piece.  Completely independent of her, and under a pact of secrecy, I will compose a thirty-second piece of music.  Every Tuesday, we show each other what we’ve made, combine them into a video, and post it to our website.

I watched the first one and was impressed by the haunting beauty of it. They’ll be putting out a fresh one each week  and there’s an RSS feed for that, and a podcast on iTunes as well. Watch “One” below.