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Holland Hopson

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Posted on April 13, 2022

in memory of Ilene Duncan

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Here’s this week’s video from the field recordings of mind in morning project with poet Hank Lazer. For this elegaic improvisation I put the banjo into an arbitrary tuning and played up the neck so I couldn’t be sure which pitches would result.

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Posted on April 5, 2022

without reverence there is no taking refuge

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This week’s video from the field recordings of mind in morning project with poet Hank Lazer. This one features the banjo played with an e-bow to create sustaining sounds.

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Posted on March 29, 2022

some said sorrow

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This week’s video from the field recordings of mind in morning project with poet Hank Lazer. I love the mellow tone of the fretless banjo with nylon strings: “the singing of earthworms”

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Posted on March 22, 2022

time & light

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This week’s video from the field recordings of mind in morning project with poet Hank Lazer, this time featuring slide banjo.

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Posted on March 15, 2022

walk it with me

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The latest video from the field recordings of mind in morning project with poet Hank Lazer.

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