B. 05.08.1985.
Lives & Works in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

I see ideas as a bunch of children in the house all yearning for attention. "Change my diaper, change my diaper..." I was in a car, we are going up to Cape Cod, and this nasty kid, I wanted to give that kid a smack, we are riding, go up and get there, get to Boston to stop. The kid: "I want a Coca-Cola!" "Wait, honey, another half an hour." "I want, I want my Coca-Cola now!" I want my Coca-Cola now!" "These three notes have to be done this way now! These three notes have to be done now!" Really! That's the way I see it. Like a bunch of kinder vying for attention. In fact, I don't even tell my students this, because otherwise they get confused, I don't even consider the art of composition. I consider it, I call it the "Band-Aid treatment." Just a Band-Aid, that the meaning, it started to bleed, the interval started to bleed, you put a Band-Aid on it not to see the blood, you see. Who wants blood on the page? Conceptual blood. - Morton Feldman

www.brandonlocher.com
Recording / Production / Etc:
709 Railroad Street
Adam Clayton Cullum - Mountain Songs

Anti Corn League
Billy Mack - Panic`er
The Bobsin Twins - Don't Smother Your Girlfriend
Boy - Blackbrowngreenred
Cory & The Fat Girls
Dan Oatman - 10.13.07
Endless Mike Vs. The Beagle Club
Endless Mike Vs. The Beagle Club Rematch
John Thorell
The Meets - 1
Mr. Fysh & The Bucktoothed Bandits
Nan Ding
Naughty Naughty Nurses - Pabst Smear
Siamese Dream - I
Siamese Dream - II
Siamese Dream - III
Siamese Dream - IIII
Siamese Dream - V
Steve Earle Scruggs

Various Artists - House Party, Vol. 1
Various Artists - Things We Lost In The Fire

The Woods At Night - MAR 2 5 2007

Other Projects:
2008 - Then Deadpan, The Noise of Wings

 
Artist: Brandon Locher
Title: Quartet For Explosive Motor, Wind, Heartbeat, And Landslide
Release #: MIF035
Format: CD

01. Quartet For Explosive Motor, Wind, Heartbeat, And Landslide [Part I] [MP3]
02. Quartet For Explosive Motor, Wind, Heartbeat, And Landslide [Part II] [MP3]

Brandon Locher
Heartbeat: 05:19:694 | Wind: 08:145

[Snore].
[Brush Hair].
[Blow noise];
[Sounds together [suffice it to say].]

MIF035 - 11/24/07 - www.myideaoffun.org | www.brandonlocher.com
[Cough] - [Laugh] - [Clap]? // Point: 34:13.174

 
Artist: Brandon Locher
Title: Sleeping Music
Release #: MIF026
Format: CD

01. Sleeping Music [Part I] [MP3]
02. Sleeping Music [Part II] [MP3]

A composition / field-recording designed as an audio sleeping aide.

 
Artist: Brandon Locher
Title: Walking Music
Release #: MIF025
Format: CD

01. Walking Music [MP3]

A composition / field-recording designed as an audio walking aide. Please wear headphones while walking.

 
Artist: Brandon Locher
Title: Conversations
Release #: MIF007
Format: CD

01. Conversations [MP3]

Starting on November 21st, 2006 I started the process of building conversation and response by calling and recording random people in the Johnstown Area Phone Book.

After the first conversation "Person 001: Hello. Hello?" was recorded and documented I then proceeded to call another random person with a playback recording of the previous persons' response. The person that is being called and recorded is fooled into thinking they are talking to an actual person when only they are responding to a recording of the previous conversation. As I move through the same process for each conversation, more information develops, and the concrete themes and ideas start to form more complex exchanges between the people and the recording.

 
Artist: Brandon Locher
Title: Bodies
Release #: MIF006
Format: CD

01. Part One [MP3]
02. Part Two [MP3]
03. Part Three [MP3]

Bodies is based on the German resarch scientist W.O Schumann who identified the dominant vibration in our earth's atmosphere in the mid twentieth centry. It's now known as the Schumann Resonance with the rather of 7.83 hertz, a very low and inaudible C# tone. The composition Bodies is in three parts and tries to bridge the connection and ideas between frequencies, earth & body.