guitarist, improvisor, composer
Blank Body is an intermedia audiovisual work by Drew Wesely released Nov. 2022 via Infrequent Seams. The material drawn from improvisations on prepared guitar and other objects, Blank Body explores the possibilities the recorded medium affords such as physically impossible musical transitions and binaural spatialization, yet is imbued with the vitality of a live performance. The accompanying vellum art book provides a visual analog as photographs, shapes, and textures emerge from and return to non-existence as the semi-transparent pages are turned like individual frames of a film.
digital album and vellum art book available for order- https://drewwesely.bandcamp.com/album/blank-body
hypersurface is an improvising trio founded in 2018 to explore the fractal levels of form that emerge through improvisation. On first meeting the music had a certain vitality and freedom to it that was immediately palpable. it seemed to flow from itself with a kind of transparency that didn’t necessitate any particular sound to be maintained or sustained as a role in the overall texture but, rather, allowed for collective interdependent phrases to come in and out of focus creating a modular effect in which multiple levels of timbre, density, and rhythmic activity are available at any given moment.
this debut recording was made in the summer of 2019 in a surplus warehouse in south brooklyn engineered, mixed, and mastered by nathaniel morgan.
drew wesely - guitar/objects
lester st. louis - cello
carlo costa - percussion
digital album and CD available for order-https://drewwesely.bandcamp.com/album/hypersurface
Invocation is an immersive visual/audio experience featuring durational musical performances paired with installation art works created specifically for each iteration. Musicians and artists work in close coordination to create an environment in which all present become equal participants to the space in which they are enveloped.
Founded in fall 2019 by Drew Wesely and Eli Wallace, Invocation has become a deep community of like-minded artists from all disciplines working to create a new paradigm for musical and artistic expression.
All videos courtesy of Kenneth Jimenez.
Michael Foster – saxophone/electronics
Cecilia Lopez – electronics
Lester St. Louis – cello
Drew Wesely – installation
Weston Olencki – low brass/electronics
Zach Rowden – tapes
Kenneth Jimenez – installation
Tamio Shiraishi – saxophone
Corey O’Brien – electronics
Jake Coen – installation
Sean Ali – bass
Azumi Oe – movement
Sam Shin – installation/voice/performance
Amanda Wallace – voice/performance
Tiffany Ortiz – voice/performance
Tania Caroline Chen – piano/electronics
Joe Moffett – trumpet
Lutkie – voice/electronics
Sarah Viviana Valdez – voice/electronics
Meghan Desmond – installation
Leila Bordreuil – cello
Flin Van Hemmen – percussion
Drew Wesely – installation
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