August 29, 2014

Friday night live at Transistor: Mereology and Joe Medina. Sound by Jon Monteverde. 

Mereology (an allusion to philosophy of parts and wholes) is electronic music by Will Farina that moves between constructive and object-oriented form. He has performed once before at Transistor and promises to bring another evocative assemblage of sound, re-sampling original samples into minimalist phrases that orbit about his daisy-chained box of outboard gear. By suspended loops and improvised manipulation, ordinary sounds -- household percussion, guitar, keyboards etc. -- meld into a miasmic composition of strange texture never too far from decomposition. Aside from practicing and contemplating the sparkling reality of sound as paradoxically immediate and withdrawn phenomena, Will currently researches Romantic-period literature at Loyola where he teaches English and composition.

Visit Mereology on Soundcloud.

Also available: a previous Will Farina Transistor recording from December 20, 2013.

Joe Medina of the band San Francisco band MERCH performed a monologue "that weaves together a debilitating bout with meningitis, a destructive relationship, and a behind-the-scenes glimpse at his attempt to make one of the greatest break-up albums of all time."