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Daniel Wyche — Earthwork (American Dreams)

Earthwork by Daniel Wyche

Guitarist Daniel Wyche can wring a plethora of sounds from six strings. The trio recordings he participated in for Astral Spirits and Astral Editions showed that he is both capable of spitting fire and unleashing torrents of liquid tone. With Earthwork, his debut for the American Dreams imprint, he turns inward, waxing introspectively with his axe.

The record kicks off with “This Was Home,” the lengthiest and densest of the pieces offered. Wyche recently relocated to Michigan, but for years he called Chicago — and its experimental music community — home. The name of the piece is a perfect summation of its Windy City origins. Wyche and his collaborators enacted the piece live at the Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) in 2015. Additional guitar contributions were provided by Andrew Clinkman and Michael Nicosia. Lia Kohl added rich cello vibrations and Ryan Packard’s vibraphone provided structures against which the waves of strings could break. Wyche utilizes electronic gadgetry – pedals and filters – to bend his guitar beyond its limits. At this session, he gave control of these elements to the audience, which became the sixth member of the ensemble. As the piece unfolds like a maelstrom, what at first seem to be wide swings in tonality eventually become subtler; the performers and the audience coalesce. Years of careful post-production honed this impressive exercise in large group improvisation into a multi-hued vista replete with crepuscular silhouettes and flecks of effervescence. 

The title of Earthwork is a reference to Wyche’s blue-collar roots, particularly the construction projects his family participated in, such as building reservoirs, that involved moving large amounts of earth for the benefit of others. Community is a recurring theme for the guitarist. His involvement with Chicago’s Elastic Arts and ESS led to him co-organizing the latter’s Quarantine Concerts. Wyche is all about creating foundations, subterranean structures that support others’ endeavors. 

On the title track, Wyche wields his guitar, tuning forks, and assorted metallic implements inside a silo, the large concrete cylinder serving as another instrument for the guitarist to manipulate. Minute movements become miniature roars inside the vast tube, let alone the thunder that erupts when Wyche applies a vigorous strum to his guitar. When he hits a tuning fork, it rings out toward infinity, the amplitude barely dissipating. Yet he also lets silence have a place at the table, which lends the piece a certain airy quality. A less astute musician would have allowed the multiplying resonances to squash their performance; Wyche seems to have total control over the environment. 

Like with “This Was Home,” Wyche took his time with this track, tinkering with the recording for years before finding a mix that he was satisfied with. This is a common theme across the whole of this album: duration. Time, memory, and loss are the trinity at the center of Earthwork’s theology. This is brought home by “The Elephant-Whale II,” the main riff of which the guitarist wrote in high school. The most straightforward offering presented, it rings with a sense of fullness and clarity until Jeff Kimmel’s snarling electronics rise to almost bury the guitar. As the piece fades into non-existence, Wyche allows a subtle resonance to remain. This vibration becomes a phantom, permeating our tympanic membranes and sliding into our brains, causing Earthwork to persist infinitely. But that was Wyche’s plan all along. 

Bryon Hayes

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It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode I talk to musician and scholar Daniel Wyche. Daniel is a visiting assistant professor in Albion College's religious studies department and a brilliant guitarist - his album Earthwork was one of my favorites in 2021, and after his first appearance on the show back in episode 514, we've become friendly. As a former philosophy professor and current philosophy dilettante, I thought it might be fun to go off-topic-ish for an episode and have an actual PhD on to bounce my well-thought out yet unresearched ideas off of, but mostly to ask: is there a way out of our society's current irrational tailspin???

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Daniel Wyche Podcast Preview: 1/19, Instagram

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Music Therapy With Jessica Risker is a weekly podcast hosted by--you guessed it--musician and therapist Jessica Risker, wherein she speaks with folks throughout the music industry about everything related from mental health on the road to balancing various aspects of adult life with a career in music. The podcast is taped live on Instagram and then distributed to the regular podcast channels. This week’s/tonight’s guest at 8:30 PM CST is none other than Chicago-based guitarist, curator, and professor Daniel Wyche, whose excellent LP Earthwork was released last year via American Dreams. According to Risker’s Instagram, the two will “talk about mental health, physical health and how it relates to performing, touring etc, day jobs, getting older in a scene, and lots more.”

Earthwork is a collaborative effort in more ways than one. The first track “This Was Home”, an entire side of the LP, was recorded live at Experimental Sound Studio (Wyche co-founded ESS’ The Quarantine Concerts) with Wyche, Andrew Clinkman, and Michael Nicosia on guitar, Lia Kohl on cello, Ryan Packard on vibraphone, and the crowd, given controllers ahead of time by Wyche, manipulating the band’s filters, an experience of true democracy between performer and audience member. The other tracks feature Wyche not only on guitar but with metal objects and tuning forks, manipulating the sounds as a tribute to the handiwork that runs in his family. (His father and uncles were builders, and Wyche himself spent a lot of time growing up at construction sites.) In a sense, here, Wyche collaborates with his own family, his own memory, his past, musing on the loss of one of his uncles and grandfather during the recording process for Earthwork. It’ll be interesting to see whether he expounds on the LP’s reflective themes of mourning in his conversation with Risker.

Earthwork by Daniel Wyche

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It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to musician and Professor of Religious Studies Daniel Wyche. Daniel is a Chicago-based guitarist, composer and improviser. Working with a wide range of physical preparations, extended techniques, and pedal instruments, his solo recorded work and live performances are characterized by long-form structured improvisations. Both by himself and with a number of collaborators (including former guest Patrick Shiroishi), Daniel has released a number of albums, and his latest, Earthwork, just came out towards the beginning of November. As an academic, he specializes in a number of areas including the works of Michel Foucault, and his first book On the Care of the Self and the Care of the Other concerns Foucault's ethical ideas around self-change.

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1. The Exploded View by Raglani 2. The Fire in the Lacquer House by Daniel Wyche 3.Trembling Frost Spires by Birchville Cat Motel 4. Fyler by Grand Ulena 5. There Are A-Movements in Our Time Not Long by No-Neck Blues Band 6.Sweet Smells by Instant Composers Pool (Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg, John Tchicai)

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top notch chicago homie playlist the past few days, some of the best tapes of the year id say. i feel like chicago is pretty lucky to not only have such an abundant, lush, and inclusive ambient/weirdo scene, but also for the artists themselves to be some of the most kindred spirits i know.