Taller Leñateros is a Mayan / mestizo arts collective from Chiapas, Mexico. I have one of their many fans since I first stumbled upon their workshop in San Cristóbal de las Casas in 2003 and held in my hands their book “Conjuros y Ebriedades” (cover at left). It’s an amazing thing, a collection of Mayan [...]

Urban Intimacies by Mexican video-dance artist Nuria Fragoso Armenta. She was recently in Prague to complete a series of projects, this being the first. She directed, danced, and edited it. I did the audio design, using samples from: Juan Pablo Villa, some Glenn Weyant drones, Language Removal Service glitches and street recordings from Cuba and [...]

I wouldn’t be nearly as interested in Facebook if it weren’t such a great tool for helping me do what I do… manage both my own shows and Verbobala‘s as well. But of course just about everyone who complains about “La Face” secretly loves it. So maybe I should just keep quiet like. In the [...]

Here’s an excellent project proposal by a friend and collaborator of mine, sound sculptor Glenn Weyant of Tucson, Arizona. Glenn is using an interesting and trustworthy website called Kickstarter to raise $3,000 for the production of a new double-disc edition of his most famous work, the Anta Project. For the Anta Project, Glenn plays the [...]

The following article marks my return to The Noise, an arts and culture monthly newspaper published in Northern Arizona. I wrote for them in 2006 and 2007, and they recently asked me back to their pages, which I am very grateful for. Thanks Chuck and Meredith! Expect new writing on Colombia for the next three [...]