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  • Bushwick Sonnet (excerpt)
  • Unkle Kracker is the Matrix
  • Bobby J (excerpt)
  • Duomo

About Sean

Sean McFarland (b. 1991) is an American musician and composer based in Baltimore, Maryland. His work explores experimental guitar music, ambient composition, and collaborative practices rooted in Baltimore’s DIY music scene. He performs as a solo artist and as a member of Euclid C Finder!, and has been active as a composer and performer since the early 2010s.

McFarland’s solo practice centers on electric guitar, electronics, and extended compositional structures. His 2021 release 1006… more

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Euclid C. Finder!

Formed in 2017 by one man with a guitar, a drum machine, and a head full of panic chords, Baltimore’s Euclid C Finder! has blossomed into a four man sonic assault. Five years of adaptive change have culminated in “The Mirror, My Weapon, I Love You.” the long-awaited debut LP.  

The album was recorded at the legendary GodCity Studio by engineer Zach Weeks (Cerce, The Armed) and features eleven tracks of anxious mosh-hymns. “The Mirror, My Weapon, I Love You.” currently sits as 125th best album of 2023 and 31st best mathcore album of all time on rateyourmusic.com

  • Tony Bennet's tape machine does not like mathcore

1006 and Resonance

To my ears, the feeling that the Wandelweiser genre seems to capture best is the essence of music, what it IS, its fundament, the primordial ooze. Towards this end, I have collected rarely performed or recorded solo electric guitar works from Pisaro, Frey, Beuger, Houben, and Crane. 

Bach's third violin partita (BWV 1006) is the very first piece of music that I fell deeply in love with, and lives in my head permanently. 
In playing Bach, the classical guitar is always trying to find ways of being more resonant. I find this path outright boring, so I have recorded the entire partita on the electric guitar using as much note sustain as possible by sitting as close as I can to a large amplifier. This technique creates an immense amount of sustain and resonance that produces some typically frowned-upon harmony that I find extremely refreshing. 

Though it is not factually the case, and this is maybe because of the genius myth of Bach or how it came to me at an early age, it feels as though the piece was born directly, perfectly, from this beautiful elemental substance of which Wanderweiser consists. 1006 and Resonance is my love letter to that idea and these two musics which I carry with me at all times. 
 

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    1006 and Resonance
  • Bobby J
  • Preludio
  • 1006 and Resonance

Chanp

Chanp is a new experimental rock band consisting of Mike Raddack, Annette Tucker, and Sean McFarland

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    Chanp
  • The Opener

The Undercroft

The Undercroft is a community arts center focused on providing a safe, all ages, accessible space for artists, youth, Remington residents and working families.

  • Moonflower by Hate5six @ The Undercroft