list of recorded works
(title/configuration/label name/year of release)
hands to
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q'ojfa C-90 big body parts 1987 / 2xCD dunkelheit 2024
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with hands to, i was involved in different ways of using sound. there were experiments with the idea of "emotional" sounds and how they may or may not affect the body/mind, projects using ideas that i found in the books of W.S. Burroughs and the soundwork of Eric Lunde, soundworks based on the destruction of audio equipment and recording devices, and other pieces based around a singular sound or action. in the beginning, i was using a cheap sampler and tape loops, all recorded in "real time" (no 4 track). after about 1991, the works were mostly based around field recordings. |
jeph jerman solo projects
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panglobal C-60 unified fields 1988
aarc tapes : monthly installments, recordings of natural sound or sounds of nature acting on human structures.
derelict recordings series aarc
sound in rooms series CDR aarc 2004
compilations contributed to:
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everything post-hands to that i've done alone. field recordings, home recordings, live performance recordings... |
Cruel Posture (w/tom ray, mark ackerman, dave montgomery)
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Accidance C-90 man-ray 1983 |
probably the first band i ever played with that wasn't conceived to play bar music. some rock, some funk, some "formless" goop using tape loops and other sounds. i think we played live once. |
Mudmen (as above)
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the unshaved heart C-60 BBP 1985 |
the same line-up as cp, more rock. mostly covers of '80's bands that not many people had heard of at the time. we also had a handful of birthday party-ish original tunes. to fill up our sets, improvisation reared it's nebulous head... |
Atrocity Exhibition (w/tom ray, george ericson, steve beckner)
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AE C-60 BBP 1986
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a bad idea gone worse. when we improvised, it was better...i think i saw a pattern developing. |
Big Joey (w/george ericson, steve beckner, dave montgomery, glenn allen)
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Big Joey / Blowhole C-60 SOP 1986
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Big Joey morphed out of regular jam sessions in the basement of Tom Ray's house. We played completely improvised songs using conventional "rock" instrumentation. The name referred to the entity we laughingly said we channeled during our performances, and each show we played under a new name: Big Joey & the Knobs, Big Joey Duck Butt Nailhead...etc. |
Ruru (w/dave montgomery, glenn allen, george ericson)
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Much Gnashing Of Teeth C-60 BBP 1988
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Ruru, the Gleemen and Smithism were all bands/projects initiated by Dave Montgomery. pretty much straight rock music, filtered through Dave's extremely funny way of looking at things. |
Gleemen (dave montgomery, glenn allen, brett bennett)
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Extender C-60 BBP 1988 |
Smithism (w/dave montgomery)
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Prone C-60 BBP 1989 |
City of Worms (w/george ericson, steve beckner)
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City of Worms C-90 the subelecktrick institute 1987
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city of worms was a trio (eventually duo) of sampler and tape deck players. we played and recorded every weekend in George's basement. our performances included projections of super8 films, and we played behind giant white scrims with light also projected from behind. i believe we were one of the first groups to do live sampling. |
domaine poetique (w/john hudak)
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great many C-60 sound of pig 1987
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most of the domaine poetique tapes were constructed by passing tapes back and forth through the mail. john and i played together in the same room only once. the result was released on "there & then". |
not to (w/allan conroy)
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hands half C-60 I.T.U. 1988 |
a one-off collaboration with allan conroy (not half). noisy and lo-fi. |
PHBTK (w/phil klingler)
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verfall C-60 bbp 1988
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phil klingler and i have collaborated on many occasions. i'm not sure what category our sound would fall under, weak power electronics perhaps? (and by that i mean that our sound quality may not have been up to snuff with the rest of the movers and shakers of that genre). i think phil might just call it noise. i recall him saying at one time that he was determined to find a way to turn noise into music...which sounds odd today. (just listen to it!) |
PBK/hands to /AMK
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system-music-end CD pure 1997 |
PBK
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Life-Sense Revoked CD lunhare 2000 |
big bwana parts (w/al margolis & lance barrton)
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big bwana parts C-60 bbp 1989 |
al margolis came through colorado while i was living at hca and stayed with lance and i for a few days. this tape was recorded in our apartment in two separate sections that were then layered on top of one another. i can't remember what it sounded like...i think al was very enamored of the trombone at the time. |
then to (w/lance barton)
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hands behaviour C-60 bbp 1989 |
collaboration with lance barton. i remember almost nothing about this tape...except a loop of a fire alarm bell, struck once and then slowed way down...and some birds... |
andrew smith
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etiology C-60 bbp 1989 (all sounds made and recorded by jerman using andrew's billboard combat lp) |
andy made some records that rrron sold, unplayable plastic discs with chunks of porcelain and nails and glass (etc) glued to them. i played them anyway, recorded the mess and made this tape out of it, completely ruining a turntable in the process. |
Holeist (w/eric lunde & dan burke)
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holeist/IOS split LP complacency 1989
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while in chicago for a couple of midwest gigs, dan burke, eric lunde and i collaborated on one side of a record. it was recorded in lunde's living room using an ensoniq mirage and a few effects processors, all in one day as i recall. the other side of this lp was a live illusion of safety recording. the album was released along with the lunde/hands to split lp on dan's complacency label. holeist played live once, lunde and burke using the mirage and samples from the record along with a tape from me. |
e. lunde (w/jerman & lance barton)
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the colorado terrain investigation 2x7" RRR 1989
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beginnings of a long fruitful collaboration that continues to this day. lunde was once a member of legendary midwest noise band boy dirt car. in the 80's he was doing some of the most interesting and extreme soundwork available. he and i hooked up due to my good friend robin boutillier, who had been corresponding with lunde and collecting his tapes. he came out to colorado, and lance and i put him up and gave him a show. performed in secret in a very public place (north cheyenne canyon, in the foothills of pikes peak), the performance was recorded and videotaped. an early peak. |
jeph jerman & e. lunde
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the animist ark 2xCDR +EYE 2003 *
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various assemblages with bob blaize and dave clark
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fitzcarringo's log C-60 bbp 1989
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Bob Blaize and Dave Clark were probably two of the first people i ever improvised with. there was also a revolving cast of other characters who would gather at Bob's house occasionally to make sound together. Blaize is undoubtedly the freest spirit i know, about whom a friend once said, "he's the only person who completely lives up to the hype". all of these tapes/discs were assembled by Bob, with the exception of "Fitzcarringo's Log". |
hands to/K2
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hallucinate my junk 7" kinky music institute 1995 |
a little noise record that i was asked to contribute to. scrapy-metallic sounding thing. |
his master's voice (aka chine nual) (w/rick kitsch, randy grief, steve brand)
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singing the boundaries CD manifold 1997
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i can't remember where i met rick kitsch (tamura), but it may have been on my first trip to LA. these discs were constructed entirely by rick using sounds provided by the rest of us. these don't sound like anything else i've been involved with. |
berhard gunter (using sounds provided by jerman)
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buddha with the sun face, buddha with the moon face CD digital narcis 1999 |
i played on a bill with gunter at anomalous records one evening. he was impressed enough by my set to offer to release some of my work. originally, i was to have gone to germany and recorded it in his home studio, but that didn't pan out. i tried several times to get a good recording in seattle, but was less than successful. bernhard wasn't willing to release the recording i sent him, but decided to use my sounds as part of a new composition, which he then released as this little CD. yes it's out of print. |
the mechanics of belief (w/prick decay)
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the mechanics of belief LP little brother 1997 *
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this was someone else's idea. i alternately love and hate this record, but ultimately feel that it's not exactly a waste of plastic, just not an essential listen. dylan nyoukis (sp?) and i collaborated further on a short tape that i thought was much more interesting and which sadly never saw the light of day. |
prick decay
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rotten groove 7" ignivomous 1996
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the anomalous sessions
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jeph jerman / hal mcgee
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florizona/arida C-60 haltapes 1995 |
hal is legendary for running the cause and effect label during the '80's heyday of hometaper madness. now i believe he's more interested in the day-to-day events around him. this is a tape of collaged and processed field recordings. i still listen to it occasionally. |
AMK
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needle hit the groove 12" with flexi pinch-a-loaf productions 1998 |
don't remember much about this record, and i no longer own a copy. i think it was composed of other people's records... |
blowhole (w/phil rodriquez, darren soule, scott hiller, patrick barber, daniel barber, tom murray, george ericson, hyla willis, ernst long, adem tepedelen, aaron wintersong, dave knott, jeffery taylor, rob millis...)
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bigjoey/blowhole split C-60 sop 1987
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the longest running band i was ever a part of, Blowhole began in Colorado Springs colorado where our first performances were at a local open-mic night. we eventually splintered into two bands, one in Colorado, the other in Seattle, when Patrick Barber moved there. Later i moved to Tucson and took part of Blowhole with me. we made recordings through the mail. the band re-assembled when i moved to Seattle, and eventually disintegrated. our original modus operandi was the use of short themes to springboard wild free improvisations. many of our tapes were recordings of these improvs with the "heads" removed. the sound of the band changed over the years as people came and went. originally using trumpet and sax, a rhythm section and a concussionist who played a great pile of scrap metal and hubcaps. we eventually became more guitar-oriented. there exists a very well-recorded album, made toward the end of ourbandness, that'll probably never see the light of day. |
Wrong
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The Finland Subterraund / Wrong split C-60 E.F. / Frigorifero 1995
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emil hagstrom's semi-rock outfit, for which i played drums in absentia. |
wally shoup/jerman
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live @ zeitgeist CDR unreleased 1999
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a lot of this "traditional" improvised stuff remains unreleased because nobody's expressed an interest in it. |
project w (shoup, jerman, brent arnold)
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obliquity LP shrat field recordings 1999 |
dave knott/ jerman
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sneaky head-puller CDR unreleased 1998
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i've been playing music with dave for a very long time. he was a member of blowhole during our last year or so of existance, and became part of the core trio that played at anomalous records every week after b'hole disintegrated. he is also a member of animist orchestra, and does many, many, many things on his own in addition to being a practicing music therapist. composer, recordist, improvisor, instrument builder...seems that more people should know about dave knott.
killing music since 1996, The Yes, Well...deliver all the wow and twice the flutter, providing the only clear alternative to slogan-charged, super-hyped whoa-oa. no whistling, no ukuleles. |
doug theriault/jerman
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the first attention CDR no label 1998
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doug plays guitar, but keeps changing the way he plays, and changing the instrument itself as well. these discs and tapes begin as fairly "normal" guitar/drums improvisation, and evolve into something else entirely. "no titles" is a recording of junk percussion, constucted through the mail, and "red, water" is field recordings that doug processed. more folks should know about him as well. |
paul hoskin/jerman
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hoskin/jerman CDR no label 1999 |
lori goldston/jerman
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live @ zeitgeist CDR unreleased 1999 |
rik wright duo/trio
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duo one CDR unreleased 1999
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time was, rik looked to be a new mover in seattle improv circles. i'm not sure what he's doing these days...wally and i played with rik fairly regularly for a few months. most of these discs were recorded and edited by rik. |
cobra
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live on sonarchy CDR unreleased 1999 |
climax golden twins
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live vol. 3 c-30/10" fire breathing turtle/anomalous 2000
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i played on two of their records i think. the "polka dot" album and one of the live 10" records. these guys're jokers, don't believe anything they tell you. their other records are pretty fun. check 'em out. |
mike shannon/jerman
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july 2001 C-60 aarc 2001 |
one of my questions to musicians who've been around is, "do you know mike shannon?" i'm surprised at how many do. mike's been playing music forever. he is also a member of animist orchestra, and we've made a few tapes together-soon to be more. these are fairly unclassifiable, methinks...also done through the mail. |
doug theriault, mike shannon, dave knott, jerman
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theriaultjermanshannonknott C-60 aarc 2001 |
animist orchestra (w/mike shannon, dave knott, jeffrey taylor , robert millis, eleanor gallagher, marina granger, susie kozawa, rachael jackson...)
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recordings 6-18, 7-30, 8-20-99 private DAT
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the orchestra continues to perform and record. for more information about what/where/when, see the animist orchestra page. |
coincidentiae mirabiles (w/shannon, kozawa, knott, eric lanzillotta, miroslaw rajkowski, yoko murao)
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coincidentiae mirabiles CD joy street 2000
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jerman / augur
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(animating them) by her example / message from a pearl CDR unreleased 2001 |
akrude (jeff sampson/jerman)
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predetermined by hindsight CD burning shirt 2002 |
mike shannon/ luca miti/ jeph jerman
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/summer 2002 C-90 aarc 2003 |
greg davis / jeph jerman
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december 23rd, 2003 in cottonwood, arizona CDR autumn records 2004
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greg and i have recorded four times i think. the first two recordings have surfaced and there'll be more. greg is another multi-faceted musician, composing, improvising on a number of instruments, doing laptop sound...watch for him on tour... |
al casais / jeph jerman
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add this to that CDR shadow puppet recording co. 2005
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i think i met al through the internet. this was our first collaborative doing, a quiet, through the mail improvisation with natural objects. the first of many i'm sure. |
ones hand (daniel mitha / nick phillips / jeph jerman)
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1997-2005 CDR white tapes 2005 |
while in new york city in summer 2004, i met with my old friend daniel mitha. daniel was a frequent player during the anomalous weekly sessions. he suggested we do something together again. i eventually sent him a disc of various sounds recorded at home. he took these sounds and mixed them with recordings made years earlier, at aforementioned anomalous sessions...then he passed the mixture on to his friend nick phillips, who obviously ran the whole mess through some sort of magical device or process and viola! a mysterious and engaging little disc of oddly-displaced sounds. this will more than likely come out in greater numbers, in a different format, in the near future. one of my favourite results. it still sounds different every time i listen. |
tim barnes / jeph jerman
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live 2004 CDR 2006
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rafe juristo / jeph jerman
the cloud of unknowing C-42 put your hands down 2011
distants C-50 put your hands down 2015
tony whitehead / jeph jerman
placed C-40 very quiet records 2013
underwater download impulsive habitat 2014
jeph jerman / aaron dilloway
casual collisions CDR 2013 / CD white centipede noise & new forces 2021
c. reider / jeph jerman
pop variations download pan y rosas discos 2016
cheryl leonard / bryan day / jeph jerman
isinglass C47 eh? 2016
jeph jerman / giacomo salis / paolo sanna
kio ge CDR confront 2016
jeph jerman / steve jansen
second first C46 that's cool records 2017
first second C41 that's cool records 2918
third CDR 2019
composite washes box set (5 CD-Rs, a DVD-R (with 3 videos), track list and a polaroid photo) 2023
el gruppo arrastre
at the chapel performance space seattle wa 2013 CDR fidgety editions 2021
jeph jerman / joachim nordwall
topology CD new forces 2023
jeph jerman / ted byrnes
passenger C-39 tsss tapes 2023
jeph jerman / james wyness
fragmentary letter concerning a statue download ubanu tarasa 2023
jeph jerman / tim olive
pancakes C-30 buried in slag and debris 2024
hands to
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vomitorium pxl video 5 min. 1989
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city of worms
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live pueblo video 40 min. 1988
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big joey/ruru
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live cos video 90 min. 1987 |
e.lunde
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the colorado terrain investigation video 40 min. 1988 |
jerman/dave knott
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live @ olympia exp. music fest. video 30 min. 1997 the yes, well @crema video 14 min. |
jerman/wally shoup
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backroom at the speakeasy video 30 min. 1998
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project w
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live video 40 min. 1999
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jerman/animist orchestra
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an uncommon nature video entire 2001
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