Seeded Plain - badminton, the volleys CD
Jay Kreimer & Bryan Day: Invented Instruments, Electronics.
These pieces were recorded in October 2022 during a visit by Bryan Day to India during Jay Kreimer's second Fulbright fellowship. Seeded Plain performed at a stepwell temple near the campus of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, at the Saptaparni cultural association in Hyderabad and at a machine shop at the Srishti Institute in Banagalore.
Jay Kreimer is an improvising musician, instrument inventor and sound artist. He has been creating new musical instruments for nearly 30 years. He performs internationally, throughout North America, across Europe and in China and in India. In 2013, he returned to India on a Fulbright fellowship to document street wedding bands. In March 2011, he was a finalist in the Guthman musical instrument invention competition.
He has performed with Bryan Day as Seeded Plain for more than 15 years and the Mighty Vitamins for 20 years. In the spring of 2019, Kreimer participated in an eight-show tour of Mexico with Bryan Day and Marco Albert, in support of the Albert Day Kreimer album “Mutations.” He has created sound works, sculpture, photos and video for many installations with Wendy Weiss. He collaborates frequently with composer and performer Stacey Barelos. He performed his water-based piece, “When It’s Gone,” at the De Young Museum in San Francisco.
He was the subject of a video segment of Nebraska Stories on NET, talking about his instrument-making work. This piece has been featured on the PBS national website ArtsCanvas and the PBS Newshour Facebook page (https://bit.ly/kreimer). Indian filmmaker Pooja Usha is finishing a longer documentary on Kreimer’s recently
completed 2021-2022 Fulbright research project to make original instruments from ordinary materials in India. The documentary includes performance footage with a range of fine musicians.
Bryan Day is a sonic adventurer, painter and inventor of curious things based in the San Francisco area. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components and amplified materials that you might find in your garage or your great uncle's office, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia and the Americas. His projects have releases on Tansprocesz, Ikuisuus, Chocolate Monk, Digitalis, Unread, Freedom From, Charnel, Gilgongo, Creative Sources, Bug Incision, Almost Halloween Time and many other labels over the last 25 years.