Sander Roscoe Wolff: Recent Episodes
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<a href="https://srwolff.bandcamp.com/album/coranivesperia">Coranivesperia by Sander Roscoe Wolff</a>
The work in this album was created to celebrate International Drone Day 2025. This ambient/drone work is based on 6 random vocal loops captured by Audio Damage Circa from a streaming radio station. You can hear the initial capture in Part 3. Part 2 is Part 3 time-stretched to about 15 minutes, using a process in Living Memory’s Auditor. Part 1 is Part 3 time stretched using Sonosaurus’s PaulXStretch to 55 minutes. I applied variable EQ to Part 2 and 3, and a few other simple processes.
<a href="https://srwolff.bandcamp.com/album/noise">NOISE by Sander Roscoe Wolff</a>
I’ve been experimenting with non-musical sound for at least 50 years. In fact, Track 12 (Mysterious Oscillations) was recorded by me when I was about 10 years old. I’ve participated in noise performances at various venues, including at the Santa Ana Noise Fest, both with Ain Soph Aur, Toaster Music, and as a solo artist. I amassed a collection of noise recordings, and created a bunch of new ones, for this album. Strangely, I’ve received lots of positive feedback from brave folks who found many of the tracks to be gasp pleasing. I hope you agree.
<a href="https://urckrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-limitless-light">The Limitless Light by Ain Soph Aur</a>
ASA is Carl Off & Sander Roscoe Wolff
ASA was active from about 2008 to 2014. During that time it produced a number of studio tracks, most of which are included here. The elements were created independently, and shared back and forth, until the final assembled tracks were completed.
Sound Sources include Field Recordings, Found Sounds, Silvertone Organ, Bass Guitar, Electro-Harmonix 2880, Voice, Bells, Penny Whistle, Vintage Brass Bansuri, Metal Bowls, Lap Steel Guitar, Electric Guitar, Frame Drum, Bugle, Heart Chime, Kalimba, Yueqin, Sheet Pan, Tambourine, Clay Drum, and Melodica.
Buddhist chanting on Those Deeper Natures by Betsy Lohrer Hall
On The Ruling Affection, Vedic percussion by Brian Campbell, Jazz Drumming by Alan Cook, and Trumpet by Dave Williams.
<a href="https://srwolff.bandcamp.com/album/portraits-of-a-distant-landscape">Portraits of a Distant Landscape by Sander Roscoe Wolff</a>
In July of 2024, I decided to record a series of abstract sonic experiments, intending for them to be the start of a creative collaboration with a friend. They sat around for 3 months and, upon listening to them, decided I’d just release them as they are.
All tracks were recorded in one take, live, using a variety of virtual instruments and various effects running in AUM on a 2022 iPad Pro.
<a href="https://srwolff.bandcamp.com/album/expect-delays">Expect Delays by Sander Roscoe Wolff</a>
All tracks were created during the month of February, 2024, as part of the annual FAWM (February Album Writing Month) challenge. All tracks were recorded live, in one take, using an iPad Pro with voice, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, and various virtual synths. Various delay systems were used, along with other real-time processing. After the recordings were completed, no additional work was done to them.
<a href="https://srwolff.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-the-documentary-series-let-me-be-frank">Music for the Documentary Series: Let Me Be Frank by Sander Roscoe Wolff</a>
Frank Moore was an American performance artist. Born with cerebral palsy, he overcame his uncomfortable isolation by creating participatory performance events that involved friends, collaborators, and audience members. He wrote extensively about his life and work and, after his death, his closest partners, Linda Mac and Michael LaBash, began to craft a documentary about his life and work. This project morphed into a series of short episodes, each focusing on a chapter from Moore’s book, Art of the Shaman. Because he was unable to speak, they invited friends, fellow performance artists, and collaborators to read the texts, including such luminaries as Annie Sprinkle, Veronica Vera, and David Steinberg. I created music for many of these readings, which are included here.
All tracks were created by Sander Roscoe Wolff, using a variety of sound sources, including Voice, Trombone, Cambodian Buddhist Monks, Live Looping Synth & Guitar, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Grand Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Recorders, Ocarina, Kalimba, and Cat.
Many thanks to Carl Off, Robert Douglas, Michael LaBash, Linda Mac, and Frank Moore.
You can purchase a printed copy or digital download of Frank Moore’s book, Art of the Shaman, here:
www.eroplay.com/artofashaman/
You can view the entire NSFW documentary series here:
frankadelic.com
Raw Materials by Sander Roscoe Wolff After completing Songs of Intuition and Ignorance in July of 2021, I wanted to do something completely different. Songs was primarily a solitary process, with the exception of significant contributions by Kenny Blacklock on Particle Accelerator. I was working alone, stuck with my own habits and inclinations, necessitated by […]
Thanks to some inspiration from a Hop-Frog colleague, Eric Baughn, I began writing and recording songs in January of 2021. It was, at least in part, an extension of the massive Covid music creation process that started back in March of 2020, when I was furloughed. Eric had suggested collaborating on an album of songs, […]
Thanks to some online music groups, I discovered an annual effort where musicians record 10 to 15 songs during the month of February, with the intention of releasing them as an ‘album.’ After some careful thought in January of 2020, I decided to join in. It was my second time doing it. The first, in […]
Thanks to some online music groups, I discovered an annual effort where musicians record 10 to 15 songs during the month of February, with the intention of releasing them as an ‘album.’ After some careful thought in January, I decided to join in, but with a slightly modified vision. I decided to compose and record […]
I was exploring an ancient archive buried deep on an old hard drive and discovered a bunch of music files from 2000, when my friends and I were exploring various ways to support the local music scene. One way we found was to run an automated streaming radio station, which continued for about a […]
Some months ago my friend and musical ally Robert Douglas (aka Carl Off) was asked to contribute music to a documentary project about American performance artist Frank Moore. His circumstances wouldn’t allow his participation, so he connected me to the producers, Linda Mac and Mikee LaBash. Carl and I had collaborated, previously, in the improvisational […]
In the early 80s, I spent quite a bit of time in the Synth Lab at Long Beach City College. It was a fairly small room, packed with two Moog 15 racks, a 35 rack, a sequencer, and a keyboard. There were also two Oberheim 4 voice synthesizers, an Apple 2e system with an AlphaSyntauri […]
A Good Day by Sander Roscoe Wolff The alarm blared painfully as the sun cut through the window shutters and sliced into my eyelids. The sun always managed to do that. I rolled over and blindly reached for my pack of Marlboros that I always leave on my night table, next to the overflowing ash […]
The Poet by Sander Roscoe Wolff Once upon a time there was a young woman who didn’t know what to do with herself. She tried many things to pass the time, but nothing seemed to hold her interest for very long. She learned to dance and was quite good, but all that twirling and jumping […]
I’ve been fascinated by modular synthesis ever since I discovered what it was. Back in the mid 80s I had the good fortune to have nearly unlimited access to a massive Moog 35, two Moog 15 racks, a Moog sequencer, and a keyboard. These massive racks contained discreet purpose built modules that shared a common […]