Artist
Methods Body
2 releases · 8 collaborators · 1 labels
- Date active
- 2020 – 2023
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- Extremely Low, very weak ties with the core cluster (here through one or more shared labels)
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Bio
METHODS BODY (Portland/Cascadia) 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.
"In Methods Body’s music, nothing feels fixed in place. The drums-and-electronics duo’s debut album is as slippery as the deck of a boat in a storm: Muscular rhythms in strange time signatures, microtonal prepared-piano riffs, droning feedback—they all careen back and forth, colliding, breaking into pieces. The result is a gnarled hybrid of free improv, minimalist composition, and dance music that advances in fits and starts, repetitive until it is not, knotty until it turns unexpectedly smooth." – Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork
"In Methods Body’s music, nothing feels fixed in place. The drums-and-electronics duo’s debut album is as slippery as the deck of a boat in a storm: Muscular rhythms in strange time signatures, microtonal prepared-piano riffs, droning feedback—they all careen back and forth, colliding, breaking into pieces. The result is a gnarled hybrid of free improv, minimalist composition, and dance music that advances in fits and starts, repetitive until it is not, knotty until it turns unexpectedly smooth." – Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork
Members
Methods Body (Artist)
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Plural Not PossessiveYear: 2023 Preview: No Label: Beacon Sound
Role: Authorship
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Methods BodyYear: 2020 Preview: No Label: Beacon Sound
Role: Authorship