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Jason Kahn and Jon Mueller

Jason Kahn and Jon Mueller work with a variety of acoustic percussion and electronics to create a range of sound and frequencies that fill a space and offer a different experience based on that specific space. A lot of Jon Mueller's range comes from gongs and gong recordings, which provide a large frequency spectrum. For Jason Kahn, the analog synth interjects a whole other range of sounds outside of the gong frequencies. Together, particularly at higher volumes, it becomes difficult from a listening standpoint to determine "what is what."

By subjecting audiences to the inhalation of desensitizing fumes derived from the quintessence of drumming, Jason Kahn and Jon Mueller have amassed a number of stunning releases over the years, many of them worthy of inclusion in the pantheon of Static Music with a Brain (theirs - ours is usually pretty much anesthetized by the results).
Paris Transatlantic May 2010

At its peak this music is intense to the point of being outright disorientating, yet for all the lack of harmony and the towering coarseness of texture exhibited here, you couldn't quite call this noise music: there's something altogether more studious and level-headed about this work
Boomkat

Deeply intelligent, nuanced and free-thinking individuals, their collaborations are well worth seeking out. It is always necessary for me to retune my ears listening to their work; they place, whether always by intention or happy accident, much of the beauty of their sound work deep within the white and pink squalls they kick up. Two percussionists restlessly engaged in the possibilities of noise.
Crow With No Mouth Dec. 22, 2010

Selected Discography
Phase Print Set plus Digital Album / Digital Album (FSS)
Topography CD (Table of the Elements / Xeric) Supershells CD (Formed Records)
Papercuts CD (Crouton)


Available from FSS



Phase
FSS-009
Print Set plus Digital Album / Digital Album
Buy Print Set + Download Here or Digital Album Here

Websites

Jason Kahn
Jon Mueller