Keith Freund
Constant Comments
2025 stock Reacting to the sounds around him, words said in passing, shards of birdsong, a glint of breeze, and kids at play, Freund (One half of Akron Ohio duo Trouble Books) stands at the center to create gentle meanderings to add as his part of the symbiotic conversation. The soothing sun is recorded alongside soft voices; the intake of a breath mixes with laughter of children. The album can be understood as a dialogue between the small moments occurring around us and our natural response wit…
Trash Can Lamb
Blending analog synths, bit-reduced samples, piano, bass, sax, and field recordings, Keith Freund crafts evocative, shape-shifting pieces where DIY electronic textures meet wistful acoustic melodies, capturing a unique, homespun atmosphere between experimentation and warmth
Hunter on the Wing
Piano, handmade electronics, tenor sax, couple strings. I was after something tangible. Sounds you could roll around in your palm and consider different, complex, and flawed textures. Feel the weight, maybe even smell them. This desire is probably a reaction to the dissociative nausea from the constant simulacra of these early 2020s. Like deliberately going barefoot to feel yourself grounded in a real place, as I read Andrea Needham did when facing charges for disarming a warplane. Anyway, my me…
Music For Small Ensemble & Computer
"Music for Small Ensemble & Computer is a collection of what I call the “DIY shitty classical” pieces me and Linda have been working on for a couple years. Using an inherited piano, freeware, and the basement floorcore spirit of discovery to trespass into a typically more rarefied style. And thankfully a few actually-trained friends lent their skills to the mess. To me, it’s the sound of the two of us struggling to find peace and stability for ourselves, family, and small community in an often c…