Jonathan Badger

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Jonathan Badger is a composer based in Baltimore, Maryland. After studying composition at Duke University and receiving numerous commissions for theatre and dance music (Emerson College [Boston], Several Dancers Corp [Atlanta/Dallas] among others), he released "Metasonic" (2006, High Horse),capturing rhythmic ambient music, improvised on guitar in one take. Since then he’s traveled around performing his riveting style of “guitaristic” electronic music. In 2008 Jonathan turned to a more extensive use of computer in his live act, processing guitar through an assortment of customized software and hardware - folding and weaving signals together into complex patterns of interlaced rhythm, harmony and texture. The resulting aesthetic is an ambient, avant-rock hybrid with DIY sensibilities, and serves as the basis for his second full-length, "Unsung Stories from Lilly's Days as a Solar Astronaut." Essentially "Metasonic"’s inversion, "Lilly’s Days" is the result of composition for the sake performance. After touring for Metasonic in 2007 using the same basic hardware he had used for that record, Jonathan re-engineered his performance rig. He brought in violinists, cellists, pianists, and singers to record every note on their instrument, inviting them to play each note in multiple ways. From these recordings he culled a massive collection of samples, which his laptop-hosted software selects and triggers based not only on what notes Jonathan plays on his guitar, but also on how he p

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Drone Zone: Atmospheric ambient space music. Serve Best Chilled. Safe with most medications. [SomaFM]

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Deep Space One: Deep ambient electronic and space music. [SomaFM]

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Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo electronica. [SomaFM]

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