Constellation Blackbird



Ambient notions, weirdbient phrases and melodic minimalism, from the edge of the Texas prairie. Gurdonark's 2016 release is Reflections on Self, available at Archive.org and at Bandcamp.com. Gurdonark's 2015 release is Constellation Blackbird on the Weareallghosts netlabel. https://weareallghosts.bandcamp.com/album/constellation-blackbird-waag-rel068 Gurdonark's 2012 release is Open Spaces on the We_are_all_Ghosts netlabel, available as a BY free download at the internet archive or as as pay what you will release at: https://root.theworkpc.com/music/preview?img=http://www.weareallghosts.co.uk/2012/11/presenting-open-spaces-waagrel009-by.html Gurdonark's 2011 release is Weights and Measures on the netlabel Treetrunk Records, available as a Creative Commons BY free download: https://root.theworkpc.com/music/preview?img=http://www.archive.org/details/Weights_And_Measures His 2010 song collection is Butterflies of North Texas, a set of creative Commons images and songs, located at fluttersongs.blogspot.com, whose songs are available here. Gurdonark's 2009 EP is Seven Virtues, on jamendo, made available for free download on last.fm as well. Gurdonark actively supports liberal licensing of his work, and encourages and abets remixers, samplers, film-makers and video-makers as part of a sharing culture approach to music. Gurdonark's 2002 first album , released in analog CD form with fellow artist Scott_M, was entitled Vibrating Electric Fields (2002), which explored the musicality of the electric football field. He sold it DIY on eBay, where it found favor with enthusiasts of the vibrating sports platforms, as well as play on the OddMusic radio program and Goo Radio. His second release, Eerie Exchange Prairie Park (2005, on archive.org), combined field recordings of a city park with minimalist dark ambient electronica about the Texas Prairie. He released a series of EPs on the DiSfish Creative Commons collective netlabel, until that label's demise. He co-founded the netlabel Negative Sound Institute with Verian Thomas, which has successfully released ambient-related material since 2007. He remixes avidly and often, catching songs and samples and converting them into soundscapes. He releases remixed songs and constructed samples at CCmixter.org. EPs released for free CC download at Negative Sound Institute: “Tallgrass Canticle” (2008) “A Texas Christmas Holiday with Zikweb Travel” Other releases: The song “Avigrace” is available for free download from the Intelligent Machinery dot net netlabel compilation “Threshed”. The song “Soul Gourd” is available for free download from the Intelligent Machinery dot net netlabel compilation “Pieces”. The song “Spiral Wrench of Avarice” is available for free download from the Darkwinter netlabel compilation “From a Darkened Pool”. The holiday song “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” is available for free download from the Darkwinter netlabel compilation “A Candle’s Golden Glow”. The field recording song “Clear-cutting” is available for free download from the Wanderingear dot com netlabel album “Melt: Minnesota Remixed”. Gurdonark is 1/2 of the post-rock ensemble Negative Sound Institute, which has two EPs released at Negative Sound Institute, Music to Read Books By and The Tunnel at the End of the Light. His collaboration with Lezrod on the song “Final Dub” has been released on Lezrod’s album “Data Transfer” on the Zymogen netlabel. His remix of In Vitro’s song “El Fin de los Tiempos” is part of his Kreislauf netlabel release at: https://root.theworkpc.com/music/preview?img=http://www.archive.org/deta... His remix of “3 Lights Fog” was released in Volume 1 of the Resting Bench Remix Project, at Earth Monkey Productions netlabel. His remix of Mystified’s “particular streams”, entitled “Belleville Saga” was released on the netlabel Treetrunk. Gurdonark lives twenty five miles north of Dallas in the southern tip of the prairie transition zone. People listen to Gurdonark in search of sonic experiences, and the search for sound as sound as very odd sound. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.