SEAN'S KITCHEN (1998)

Sean O'Donnell: Loops, programming, e-perc, fx, live mix
Matt Stevenson: Casio, pedals, tape mix
CD produced by Steve Murtaugh.
Cover art by Matt, Lora, Steve and Lin Ranieri

1 Cooking With Sean
2 Stellar Fossiles
3 Aperiodic Crystals
4 Biosis
5 The Graveyard Scene
6 Scorpio
7 Books
8 30th Streeth Bridge Suite
a: the blue line
b: 30th street station
c: Schuylkill river bridge
d: 23rd & market
e: lights

Sean O'Donnell was a guy I knew at West Chester University, where I met Lora. We shared classes and he played in an industrial band called Silence for a bit. When I moved downtown into Philly, we happened to live on the same block. He was now more interested in abstract electronic music, and I'd just started to make noise with pedals and a keyboard to entertain myself. I think the first four-track I had might've come from Sean when he unloaded a bunch of gear.

We set up in the kitchen of his studio apartment. I made sounds and snatches of melody, which he then grabbed on the fly and used to construct and deconstruct soundfields for me to noodle in.

I was amazed at how easy and fun it was to record a tape of music. This was something to follow up on.

Sean went on to do at least one other recorded project, with David Forlano, and I lost touch with him. Dumb of me.

SEAN'S KITCHEN was reviewed by Aural Innovations. It's a fair and balanced review. I'm a little smug that he refers to a variety of keyboards/synths as the whole thing was done with Sean's sampler and my Casio, but he nailed it when referring to "organ smears straight from Miles Davis;" BITCH'S BREW had a mammoth impact on my ears. - Matt