Drew Wesely
guitarist, improvisor, composer
recent works
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
upcoming performances
- Solo at CUSP November 22, 2024 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm ClevelandnUnited States
- Solo @ Moondog November 23, 2024 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm DetroitnUnited States
- Bad Therapy December 3, 2024 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
- Kenneth / Hery December 6, 2024 at 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Cutelab
- Florian Stoffner December 9, 2024 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Record Shopn360 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States
- Kenneth Jimenez/Sabrina Salmone Trio December 10, 2024 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Downtown Music Gallery - Headquartersn13 Monroe St, New York, NY 10002, United States
- Yoko Teki Film December 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Mabou Mines Development Foundationn150 First Ave, New York, NY 10009, United States
- Hypersurface @ Cría Cuervos January 9, 2025 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Academy Recordsn85 Oak St, Brooklyn, NY 11222, United States
- Karen Ng / Kevin Murray Trio January 10, 2025 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Record Shopn360 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States
- Amor Fati (Nate Wooley/Cecilia Lopez/Eli Wallace) February 1, 2025 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Fire Museum Presents (Philadelphia PA)
- Issue Project Room solo March 6, 2025 at 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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