Born in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, composer and multidisciplinary artist Allan Gilbert Balon centers his phonographic and installation practice on the exploration of memorial interiority and liminal perception. Co-founder of xyä édition with Uta Guan Hyë, his work has been exhibited at New York’s MoMA PS1 and released through contemporary and experimental imprints such as Recital Program and Séance Centre.
His debut album, The Magnesia Suite (2024), extends the historical lineage of Erik Satie’s furniture music alongside the asceticism of American minimalism (Charlemagne Palestine, Alvin Curran). Through a contemplative approach to the piano—evoking temporal elongation and harmonic plasticity found in Thelonious Monk and Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou—coupled with tape manipulation and radio static, Balon constructs an architecture of muted dissonance that blurs the boundary between subjective interiority and environmental space.
Andrew Weathers (1988) is a composer, improviser, and intermedia artist currently based in Pueblo, Colorado after spending formative time in West Texas, the Bay Area, and North Carolina. His work is primarily concerned with place, site, duration, and repetition, explored through field recording, psychogeographic methods, and recursive resonances. Weathers has collaborated alongside a wide swath of artists inhabiting disparate currents of media, approaches, and aesthetics.
In 2008, Weathers founded Full Spectrum Records, beginning a long-standing commitment to curation and cultivation that went on to encompass a number of projects for Other Minds Records and Rural Situationism. After 16 years and 175 releases, Full Spectrum came to an end in 2024. He currently curates the imprints Editions Glomar and Bastard Countryside and continues to work as an in-demand producer and audio engineer.
Savant Flaneur is the idle virtuosi, ambivalent wunderkind, aimless and gifted. Savant Flaneur is an experimental music collective working on Treaty 1 Territory. Savant Flaneur flirts with the obscure and scores the experimental, obsessed with idea, and the idea as the only (whilst) used. At least for a while, a while (once),