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Bryant and Hopson and Marcus and Beatty

Poster that reads: Matt Bryant and Holland Hopson, Free Live Music, March 6th, 6-9pm, Marcus & Beatty, 2124 9th St. Poster shows a person playing a banjo and another person holding a ukulele

I’m happy to share a bill with Matt Bryant for a First Friday Tuscaloosa event at Marcus & Beatty. Matt and I will alternate solo sets during the night–Matt on ukulele and me on fretless banjo. We’ll both bring the electronics.

Friday, March 6, 2026
Matt Bryant / Holland Hopson
Marcus & Beatty
2124 9th St.
Tuscaloosa AL 35401

I’m a regular at Marcus & Beatty for haircuts, gifts and clothing. It’s so good to have them supporting music in the neighborhood! You’ll know you’re in the right place when you see the mural on the east side of their building.

Mural of white images on a black background with some red highlights. The mural reads "Slow Talk" and depicts a possum, crow, raccoon, cardinal along with magnolia blossoms, lilypads and other plants

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As We Vanish From Public View

I’m excited to provide ambient music for Hank Lazer‘s poetry reading tomorrow at the launch of his latest collection of poems, As We Vanish From Public View. The reading will be at Ernest & Hadley, my favorite local book store.

Saturday, August 3, 2024 11am
As We Vanish from Public View
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers
Tuscaloosa AL 35401

For this event I’ve built some generative music devices in Cycling ’74’s Max to create melodies and harmonies on the fly. I’ve also chosen a selection of my field recordings.

Speaking of field recordings, one of our recent projects was field recordings of mind in morning.

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Sky Sparrow Snow

I’m thrilled to announce my latest solo recording, Sky Sparrow Snow. This release is a return to song forms for banjo, voice and electronics. Sky Sparrow Snow is a collection of seven original songs merging old-time Appalachian banjo with ambient electronics. The tunes touch on folk (“Laurel Cove“) and gospel (“Over Yonder’s Ocean“) with adventures into hybrid genres like raga blues (“Alap Catfish Impala“) or Steve Reich-meets-Dock Boggs (“No Mule“).

The record is available at Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify and other streaming services.

Though these recordings may sound like studio creations, they’re largely documents of live performances, with only minimal edits and overdubs. All of the electronic treatments happen in real-time; I play the banjo and sing while custom Max patches respond to the audio signals and data from my sensor-equipped instruments.