November 19, 2009: The SPECTRE SERIES presents SUN CIRCLE, OSKER MERRILL

SUN CIRCLE

PERSONNEL: GREG DAVIS, ZACH WALLACE
SOUNDS: ECSTATIC HIGH VOLUME DRONES, LONG FORM TRANCE MUSICS AND PEACE NOISE.
LABELS: LICHEN, MUSIC FELLOWSHIP, IMPORTANT

OSKER MERRILL

Osker Merrill is a New Mexico native born on the checkerboard side of the Navajo Nation reservation. Having moved often though currently living in Albuquerque for several years now studying psychology and religious studies to piece together what drives people and for introspective research as well. In addition interested as well in the role media has to play upon the psyche of a person. Whether it be a favorite book, movie or even commercial for a certain type of cereal the media plays a large part in ones life no matter how sheltered one can aim towards. This is a study on life’s ritualistic order and playing the role of creator, sustainer, and destroyer.

Brought forth in the last quarter of the twentieth century under a waxing gibbous moon and observing life as if an alien from another world and sometimes going back to that divergent dimension Osker Merrill has found himself piecing together life from its entrails using recordings. Having captured them on micro cassettes, digital recorders, phones or any other available means they are then woven together in a web. This web is the piecing together of current events, long deep-seated regrets, mythos from yesteryear, and sometimes cotton candy rearranging to bring forth the chaos and calm behind it all.

Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:30 PM
ARTS Lab Garage
131 Pine Street NE, Albuquerque
Map: http://artslab.unm.edu/where.html
http://artslabmusic.blogspot.com/