Suzanne Thorpe and Bonnie Jones collaborate on two fronts. First, as musical partners: Thorpe, a founding member of Mercury Rev who’s performed with Pauline Oliveros, Nate Wooley, and J. Mascis, plays flute through a chain of electronic effects that splits her instrument’s sound and allows her to magnify select timbres, while Jones uses circuit-bent delay pedals and shortwave radio to obtain low pops, yielding but abrasive puffs, and snatches of airwave content.…
Suzanne Thorpe and Bonnie Jones collaborate on two fronts. First, as musical partners: Thorpe, a founding member of Mercury Rev who’s performed with Pauline Oliveros, Nate Wooley, and J. Mascis, plays flute through a chain of electronic effects that splits her instrument’s sound and allows her to magnify select timbres, while Jones uses circuit-bent delay pedals and shortwave radio to obtain low pops, yielding but abrasive puffs, and snatches of airwave content.…