guest session
04.30.23
Mark Trecka is a Chicago-born singer, sound artist, writer, and organizer. “Loping / gestures” is his most recent solo release and his first for Beacon Sound.
This mix explores collaborators, influences and works sampled on “Loping / gestures,” including music by: Phyllis Dillon, Obelisk Ruins, Lake Mary, Evan Hydzik, jaimie branch, Fly or Die, Pelted Shell, Midwife, Raven Chacon, Skinny Puppy, Mansur Brown, and Marshall Trammell, as well as the voices of Kazuo Ohno, W.G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, John Berger, and yasser elhariry. The mix is threaded through with excerpts from Trecka’s “Correspondences as Shelter,” an experimental radio program originally developed for Radio Coyote and now airing bi-monthly on Radio al Hara.
Tracklist:
Mark Trecka, Evan Hydzik – Poppy sketch / Staying Desire, rhythm
Andrew Eley, Mark Trecka – Gesture Through (fragment)
Phyllis Dillon – You Are Like Heaven to Me
Obelisk Ruins – Thought Vision Doubt (excerpt)
Lake Mary – When It’s All on the Ground
Evan Hydzik – E.S. 2
Mark Trecka – Sloping breath as branch (with and for jaimie)
jaimie branch – Solo improvisation live at Musée Eugène Delacroix
Fly or Die – leaves of glass
Pelted Shell – Telephone
Midwife – Sundowning
Raven Chacon x Mark Trecka – Simultaneous Extensions (excerpt)
Mark Trecka – Loping Breath (as Bells) (element)
Skinny Puppy – Stairs and Flowers (Dub)
Mansur Brown – Flight
Mark Trecka – Gesture Through
Music Research Strategies – Eleven Postures (various elements)
