BUY THE ALBUM
only $5!
The Greatest Hits So Far includes nineteen re-mastered tracks from the original Learning Music album-a-month project.
The CD comes in a slim cardboard sleeve with awesome graphics by Max Markowitz, wrapped in a clear, biodegradable, smokable wrapper.

upcoming shows

Every Sunday in September at Tangier (Los Feliz, Los Angeles)
-Sept 7
-Sept 14
-Sept 21
-Sept 28

about

Learning Music began as a collaborative album-a-month project, commencing in November 2006 and concluding in November of 2007.
The series included an album recorded entirely on handheld cassette recorder, a collection of music videos filmed before the music was made,
songs for an autobiographical musical written by a robot, and dozens of homemade electro-acoustic folk-pop anthems.

Twelve months and twelve albums later, it was time to get out of the house. Inspired by the early works of Terry Riley, the Talking Heads,
and Storm & Stress, Learning Music became a live band, which has included as little as four to as many as twenty musicians at one time.

Visit the original Learning Music site, where you can listen to the first twelve albums in their entirety.

also go here

ing || Willoughby || Mad Gregs || Readers || Jazz Farm || Community Pool Tapes || Vosotros || Learning Music myspace

future plans

-using a four-track tape machine, play single vocal melodies through four speakers, one in each corner of a square room. encourage the audience to walk around the room, standing next to each speaker and singing along, to create a four-part audience-choir. stand in the middle of the room with a banjo and sometimes sing lead
-stop making music and claim to be video artists. secretly play shows in odd places and video-tape them
-go to michigan and make music with Andrew Epstein. get him to take you ice fishing
-play a show with only human voices
-sequence a set of music for between five and ten midi instruments. perform a solo show with the instruments each running through their own speaker; speakers set in a circle facing out, with audience walking around them
-learn a dance sequence. video-tape it. try to convince other bands to let you choreograph their music video
-make a music video where the recording of the music and the filming happen at the same time. can either be one take or multiple scenes spliced together from different locations
-play a show with all strings (violins violas cellos double basses)
-resume the album-a-month series with a mail-order/subscription service. ideas for different months: interlude duets written for damon and sarah z; a dvd with 11 videos made by a bunch a filmmakers, music written to picture; a jazz album a la raymond scott; country western album featuring joe davs; songs for the musical that eli wants to make; a telling of that dream I had the other night where we're kayaking down an ancient underground river and we get sucked through some rapids to a seemingly-abandonded city, where a humanoid leads us to a great dark hall that will transport us to a different dimension where proper names have no meaning
-start a blog
-next fourth of july, gather friends to improvise music to the local fireworks display