Listening Lawn iv (august 3rd, 2024)

 

JWS - "songs performed in the style of haiku [winter]" MDIM030

Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens 

- songs performed in the style of haiku [winter]

MDIM030

Imagining haiku poetry as an auditory experience, these fragile sonic snowflakes take flight for mere moments and then subside into nothingness. Channeling the punk rock ethos of focused and fast with limited means, Multidim's own Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens jumps back into the fold on MDIM030 with the perfect ambient release to enjoy with a single cup of tea.

  

All songs follow the traditional haiku form of 5-7-5.  The first loop in an expression of five, the second movement in an expression of seven, and the third final line in an expression of five.  

Each sonic haiku was performed by alternating lines between a Casio SK-1, a Casio Sk-5, and Casio SK-1 in one or two takes. Put them on repeat and melt away. 

 

Recorded from December 15, 2023 - January 15, 2024.

Mastered by Tommy Metz

BANDCAMP:

https://multidim.bandcamp.com/album/songs-performed-in-the-style-of-haiku-winter

NINA:

www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/jeffrey-wentworth-stevens-songs-performed-in-the-style-of-haiku-winter

SOUNDCLOUD:

https://on.soundcloud.com/x1FXs

YouTUBE:

https://youtu.be/CCWCHTiHH-g

new dJ mix... "Here, I’m here— The snow"

Here,
I’m here—
The snow falling

by Kobayashi Issa

A soundtrack for the hours under blankets daydreaming in the midst of winter.  A dJmix by morriconez featuring...

Harry Nilsson, Mica Levi, Townes Van Zandt, Dj Healer, Boards of Canada, Vincent Gallo, Leyland Kirby, Jackson C Frank, Horace Silver Quintet, Casino Versus Japan, Jeff Alexander, C. Lara & J. Musy, Gordon Lightfoot, Sam Gendel, Aphex Twin

https://www.mixcloud.com/morriconez/here-im-here-the-snow-falling/

"Dune Juice" collaboration shown in Mexico

Very honored to be included in this gallery show in Mexico.  Alfredo Esparza Cárdenas ‘s stunning video piece will be one of the featured installations. The art piece is a collaboration we did for my song “Dune Juice”
@andrecactus

 

Listening Lawn iii - August 5th 2023

 

Listening Lawn ii - July 23rd 2022

 

JWS in Southwest Contemporary Art Magazine

...click here for full interview by Sommer Browning

Muiltidim Summer Showcase LISTENING LAWN

 

DOZE DOSING - "shared_DOCS_w/_u"

MDIM015

DOZE DOSING - "shared_DOCS_w/_u" 

available on limited edition cassette/digital/all streaming services

A plea for a return to normal biorhythms, MDIM015 explores the post online come down and saturated mental state of cloud based socializing.  Using improvised vocals as incantations, minimal beat structures, and DX7 musings DOZE DOSING explores the sleepwalking like state of being plugged in beyond one's comfort level.

To cope with the countless hours spent delivering instruction, providing mental health support, and analyzing data while teaching online during the COVID pandemic, Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens committed to recording songs everyday immediately after logging out. Each song was captured in one or two takes and the vocals were improvised.

"I needed to sing a little, I felt abnormally symmetrical, I felt I needed to repeat phrases over and over to get through it."  

MULTIDIM RECORDS 2021

complete DiSCOGRAPHY jeffrey wentworth stevens (so far...)

[[[TONE TRANSCRIPT]]]

2024 -  JWS "songs performed in the style of haiku [winter]" (MDIM030)

2024 -  Morriconez DJ mix "Here, I’m here— The snow"

2021 -  DOZE DOSING "shared_DOCS_w/_U" EP ( MDIM015 )

2020 -  Porlolo x Andre Cactus "Christmas in Hollis" cover

2020 - "your landscape is my dreamscape" short film/fashion OST A. Cactus Dir. by Shelby Rahe

2020 - "Sundrops" video featured in Supernova Digital Animation Festival September 2020.

2020 - "Sundrops" video Andre Cactus Directed by Joshua Gondrez, WenBen, Shelby Rahe 

2020 - "Outlaw Mountain" short film/fashion OST Andre Cactus Directed by Shelby Rahe
2020 - "03.11.20" short film OST Directed by Jason Iselin and Jeffrey Wentworth
2020 - "Lua" short film OST Andre Cactus Directed by Shelby Rahe 
2020 - "Fallen Angel" short film OST Andre Cactus Directed by Shelby Rahe
2020 - "Silent Rose" film OST Topic Streaming
2019 - Head of Operations/Part Owner of MULTIDIM RECORDS
2019 - Andre Cactus "Dune Juice"
2019 - "ONkilter" Multidim Records Compilation (Andre Cactus "Sundrops"& "Follow Me")
2018 - Andre Cactus and Ah, River "the desert and the water" Multidim Records
2018 - Andre Cactus "layups" LP
2018 - "Wild I-70" IZI travel APP interactive travel/animal migration awareness

2018 -  create Multidim Records w/Tommy Metz & Michael King
2017 -"EN MEDIAS RES" film OST (dir. by Joshua Gondrez)
2017 – AMBIT "Marshy"
2017 – AMBIT "Guest House"
2017 – JWS "X [American Refrain] X"

2016 – JWS "the [gold mixtape]" 

2016 – JWS x Land Lines "Division remix" 
2016 – JWS & déCollage... ;)(semicolon parenthesis) remix 
2015 – "Rolling Papers" film OST various artists (AMBIT, JWS)

2015 – AMBIT  “^~-“ EP

2015 – Wentworth Kersey "Hanna Ranch" OST single

2014 – JWS “untitled” LP

2014 – "Hanna Ranch" film OST (morriconez, wentworth kersey, Sandusky, jws) 

2013 – Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens "Alvin Smith is a Hawk I See" Ultra Soft Anthems various

2013 – LONG E short e “Steer Stall Shade” “Unlike a Machine” single

2013 – “Handmade Colorado” DIA international airport sound installation (JWS)

2013 – Morriconez/Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens “The Holy Dogs of Other Days” LP

2012 – Ballet Nouveau “Love in the Digital Age” OST various (Wentworth Kersey)

2012 – Norwegian National Ballet “The Ice Palace” Is-slottet OST various artist (george&caplin)

2012 – Morriconez “Cloud of Dust, Cry of Death” LP

2011 – Morriconez “The Poquito Pioneer” EP

2011 – Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens “Highway Driveway” EP

2010 – george&caplin “Secluded Malls and Scenic Byways/Requiem for an Encyclopedia” 2LP

2010 – “Power” Factory Labs commercial (Wentworth Kersey)

2010 – Wentworth Kersey “((O))”  EP

2009 – Wentworth Kersey “(O)”  EP
2009 – "Test of Wills" film OST (george&caplin)

2008 – Wentworth Kersey “O”  EP
2007 – Runway Estates "S/T" (Patrick Porter x Jeffrey)

2007 – george&caplin “He Really Got Through To Advertising” LP

2007 – george&caplin “Non-Linear Reinterpretations” remix EP

2006 – george&caplin “Things Past” LP

2004 – george&caplin “P.S. 1” various

2004 – george&caplin “Electronic Eulogy (from Morse Code Infinity)” LP

2003 – george&caplin “Soundings 1” Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Biennial 10+10 various

2003 – george&caplin “Fate’s First Lonely Night” LP

2002 – george&caplin “The Nature of Leaving” LP

2001 – george&caplin “The Lost Basement” EP

1999 - Wentworth "self titled" EP

1999 – Wentworth vs. Madd Hattr LP

1998 – Webslinger EP

1997 - Trailerwaxing (Greg Robles & Jeffrey) EP

Psychic Outlaw x Shelby Rahe x Andre Cactus ii

scenes from behind the scenes of a dream 

≧◠‿◠≦ starring: Chelsea Boswell
(✿◠‿◠) cinematography/direction: Shelby Rahe
⊂◉‿◉つ tunes: Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens aka Andre Cactus
٩(˘◡˘)۶ editing: Josh Gondrez and Shelby Rahe
(❁´◡`❁) bandana dress: Psychic Outlaw

"Sundrops" Andre Cactus

Directed by Joshua Gondrez and Lin Wen-Ben

The video will be featured in the Supernova Digital Animation Festival in September 2020.

Psychic Outlaw x Shelby Rahe x Andre Cactus

Outlaw Mountain from Shelby Rahe on Vimeo.
Directed by Shelby Rahe for Psychic Outlaw couture.
Music by Andre Cactus.

good things happening over here at MULTIDIM RECORDS

https://multidim.bandcamp.com
https://zachreini.com

03.11.20

"03.11.20" seeks to explore the COVID-19 crisis through America's obsession with sports. The escalation of "social distancing" and "self quarantine" exploded exponentially across the US after the flash point of NBA postponements on the night of 3.11.20. "We chose that moment to explore the stages through which the media and individuals have processed the trauma: first confusion, then anger, fear, paranoia, isolation, and desperation. We have created an alternate timeline where the game is not postponed but rather continues in sync with our own pandemic struggles; a game that can only be heard and seen from a safe distance." 

Directed by Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens and Jason Iselin 

Music by Andre Cactus

2020
BANDCAMP OST LINK
also steaming on AppleMusic, Spotify, etc.

andre cactus OST for Shelby Rahe's "Fallen Angel"

OST for "Silent Rose" 2020

Original Score for "Silent Rose"

Now streaming on TOPIC and premiering at the SIE FilmCenter 2/28/2020.

Dune Juice LP (multidim records MDIM006)

ANDRE CACTUS - DUNE JUICE 
(stream/download/limited edition asphalt covered cassette with chalk drawn cover)
https://ampl.ink/dbQD1
https://andrecactus.bandcamp.com/album/dune-juice-2

PRESS:
Sound and Silence (France)
"With his new opus, Dune Juice , he continues to develop a dense and complex music, which borrows genres without really asking questions, the atmosphere through the trip, r'n'b breakaway version, experimental but in accessible mode...while pushing further away his taste for deviations and risk taking, advancing proudly on the rubble of a future fed d history and past, hypnotic melodies and untamed beauty. Superb."

Cause = Time blog
"When you thought that Stevens couldn’t delve any further than he did into the beautiful isolation of the sparse desert landscapes like he did when he was Morriconez, Andre Cactus comes in through an ambient pathway to take things a few steps further. “Dune Juice” is the name of the new album released this past week via Multidim Records (purchase here) with a collection of airy tracks that brilliantly uses samples in ways that don’t oversaturate the final product."

State 51 Records

"I just stumbled on Sundrops on Bandcamp and immediately put it in my best of 2019 folder."

Bored in Pittsburg Blog

"This track’s use of pitched-down, distorted vocal samples, detuned synth blips, and overdriven bass notes really vibes with my burnt out, disoriented husk of a self today. These musical elements drift around each other, anchored by a crawling, stuttering hip-hop style beat... ;it’s an interesting slice of woozy, off-kilter electronic music"

Tape TIME

"-great new tape of hazy desert beats, abstract/ambient passages and grainy grooves.  Check it out!"

Edited by: Elías Hernández Directed by: Alfredo Esparza Cárdenas

Directed by Jason Iselin

MORE COMING SOON!

MULTIDIM records ONKILTER 2019

https://multidim.net/releases/onkilter1/

I've been working hard with Tommy Metz and Michael David King to put together a little record label that represents the Denver we love.  MULTIDIM. We are celebrating with an amazing compilation of 26 artists and having a party with some amazing musicians. Come and support the Denver underground and Youth on Record MAY 23rd 2019 or Buy the Compilation above.  Art work by Dylan Gebbia-Richards

COME TO THE COMPILATION CELEBRATION MAY 23rd at SYNTAX (south broadway, Denver)

COMPILATION available on STREAMING SERVICES on MAY 23rd

WE EARNED $880 from the drop/show to donate to Youth on Record!  Thanks everyone!

Viva all Bootgazing Vaqueros (SoThisIsMedia.Com)

LISTEN HERE...

http://www.sothismedias.com/2018/12/03/bootgazers-delight-with-kid-krusty/
#george&caplin #wentworthkersey #morriconez #andrecactus

"Nameless One" - Andre Cactus and Ah, River

Multidim Records 2018

directed by Josh Gondrez and Shelby Rahe

"the music video takes the form of a travelogue, a visual diary, and still life videography" Joshua Gondrez (Floss Studio 2018)

"Nameless Two" - Andre Cactus and Ah, River

Multidim Records 2018
edited by Jason Iselin
filmed by Andre Cactus and Ah, River
directed by Jason Iselin and Andre Cactus

the desert and the water

Andre Cactus and Ah, river

"the desert and the water"

Multidim Records

https://andrecactus.bandcamp.com/album/the-desert-and-the-water

http://causeequalstime.com/2018/11/andre-cactus/

download/listen/HELP ANIMAL MIGRATION

(geolocating art/awareness piece)

(including music from yours truly.)

http://www.wildi70.org/

[detective]

LISTEN/DETECTIVE

TOMETOTHEWEATHERMACHINE

SILENCEANDSOUND

OST "IN MEDIAS RES"

Honored to contribute the OST to @jrgondrez 's stunning new film/video art piece.

"In Medias Res" (2017)
WATCH HERE
It includes several new unreleased songs
along with the recent release "American Refrain"
LISTEN to "American Refrain" HERE

(I loved the final product, a true joy to work with Josh Gondrez)

AMBIT "Marshy"

"Ambit Delivers on new single Marshy" REVIEW
out on all streaming platforms 5/5/17

AMBIT "Guest House"

[especially proud to share this one, enjoy]
Review by Bolder Beat
Review by  The Denver Post/The Know
out on all streaming platforms 3/3/17

X [American Burden] X

Been pondering today's inauguration for a long time (as we all have).

I went looking for solace in the Hymns, Anthems, and Songs of America.

After sampling them, deconstructing them, listening to refrains repetitively, stretching them to the brink, and collaging them back together I found some silent principles in the tiniest pieces of America's balladry.

I wrote this piece as an American portrait and to remind myself to use my little voice in this democracy. 

Thought I'd share this piece to provide space to reflect within and to provide a different option for your ears on this inauguration day.

[[[NOW AVAILABLE ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS]]]

https://t.co/xpZWKtWbGl

best of 2016

Honored @igloomag to make the list for 2016.
JWS - the [gold mixtape]

Thanks for your help and for supporting DIY artists.

http://igloomag.com/features/best-of-2016

new micro-studio/updates...

My new micro-studio. Keeping it waavvy.

Working on an OST to a film called "The White Rose", 

rewriting the new AMBIT EP, 
and steadily pushing ahead on a new solo EP or LP. 

STAYED tuned...

http://theums.com/

•••[[[AMBIT FRIDAY 29th 6pm @TheUMS ]]]••• {Morse code Dance mode} @ the Rover /Irish/

the [gold mixtape] OUT NOW...

Land Lines X JWS = "Division" remix

JWS - the [gold mixtape]

déCollage x JWS = ";0 my house semicolon" remix

https://jeffreywentworthstevens.bandcamp.com
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-gold-mixtape/id1111777769

:::WORDS:::
CAUSE = TIME
IGLOO MAGAZINE

...ummm AMBIT post show demeanor?

FILM ost & LIVE ambit

Honored to contribute some tunes from myself and AMBIT
for the "Rolling Papers" film premiering nationwide 2/19
and playing live @ Syntax 2/20
LA TIMES review "Rolling Papers"
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-mini-rolling-papers-review-20160219-story.html

AMBIT live DEC. 12th

Motor City Spirit Walk MIX

A walk home through the streets of Detroit on the way home from a Jr. High dance on Hallow's Eve.

Motor City Spirit Walk by Morriconez on Mixcloud

a continuous DJ MIX (w/ Levon Vincent, Oppenheimer Analysis, Night Sequels, Andy Stott, Umberto, Denial, Mike Patton, AMBIT, etc.)

DOWNLOAD HERE

something old/new from WENTWORTH KERSEY!

In honor of Kirk Hanna and Mr. Joe Kersey Sampson's union to Deanna,

One of our all time favorite Wentworth Kersey tracks that never saw the light of day.

[The instrumental appeared in the soundtrack to Hanna Ranch 

but here is the full vocal version in all it's glory] FREE DOWNLOAD

https://wentworthkersey.bandcamp.com/track/hanna-ranch

live summer 2015 AMBIT

photos by and special thanks to http://wesbutler.photo/

ambit x MARK MATHERSBAUGH

ambit X MARK MOTHERSBAUGH calculator live improv @mcadenver was cosmic indeed.

Introducing AMBIT part I...

A video posted by AMBIT (@i_ambit) on Mar 16, 2015 at 9:23pm PDT

introducing AMBIT part II...

AMBIT

eli mishkin |vocals/guitar| 

jason iselin |guitar/bass| 

jeffrey wentworth stevens |modulations/drums|

(live set and limited edition vinyl HERE)

amBiT at SXSW (film)

Sneaking into SXSW via celluloid. 

Thrilled to have songs from my new project amBiT (w/ Eli Mishkin & Jason Iselin) appear in the Rolling Paper Doc, premiering at SXSW. March 15th, 2015

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_FS18041

11"••=[[ a palm for your winter

11"••=[[ 

[free download]

[https://jeffreywentworthstevens.bandcamp.com/album/11]

NEW album OUT NOW

formats: DIGITAL/LIMITED EDITION RECYCLABLE JUMP DRIVE IN COMPUTER BODY BAG

LISTEN/BUY HERE

Been working on this one for awhile and put a lot of guts into it.  

It's me late at night imagining I'm running my own illegal warehouse party.  

Courtesy of Wil-Ru Records.