SHAPE OF THE MOON

when the land is laid bare

Shape of the Moon is a cinematic poem band that performs twice a year under the night sky in the open desert outside Joshua Tree. The core group is myself, Bear Glass and Yoon Lee, but our cast of musicians waxes and wanes with each performance, hence the name. Each track here is a raw excerpt from one of these sessions, each of which is performed surrounded by an audience which is surrounded by a quadraphonic sound system which is monitored and controlled by someone in the cast, each input individually panned around the space on its own channel and manipulated via various synthesizers. We also tend to play somewhere around four in the morning. I’d really rather we didn’t. But we do. Sound system by Mobius Acoustics

It’s best to listen to us in the dark or with headphones. Special performance at Bombay Beach Biennale March 23, 2024.

We also have a small YouTube channel here.

films

The feather and the fawn

The golden thread

This egg

live tracks

Papa Bear - bass, synthesizer and Bukola; Yoon Lee - guitar, cahon and saxophone; Matt Yerge - singing bowls, gong and bells; Benjamin Burke - words

Anthony Bisset and Brian Hildebrand - synthesizers; Yoon Lee - guitar and saxophone; Benjamin Burke - words