Seeded Plain • David Hurlin • Mustard-in-Law
Seeded Plain formed in 2007 when instrument inventors and builders Jay Kreimer and Bryan Day started recording together after being introduced by colleagues in the Lincoln, Nebraska experimental music community. Together they have toured the US, Mexico, India and Europe, performing concerts and presenting instrument-building workshops. Seeded Plain have released eight full-length albums on labels such as Bug Incision, Gilgongo, Creative Sources and Public Eyesore.
Jay Kreimer is a musician, instrument maker, sculptor, composer and educator. More to the point, he is an alchemist of hardware stores, surplus catalogs, and discarded objects, who assembles new things out of scraps of possibility. Kreimer has performed across Europe, including Dublin, Cork, London, Glasgow, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris, and played at D-22 in Beijing. He presented an interactive talk/performance at the 2008 ISIM conference in Denver, and Santa Cruz. In collaboration with Wendy Weiss, he has shown sound and sculptural work in Beijing, San Francisco, Vancouver, New York, Washington D.C, and showed a major installation in Kansas City and Tulsa. Kreimer also performs with The Mighty Vitamins.
Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument designer, and conceptual artist based in San Francisco. Day's work investigates the delicate interplay between processed natural recordings and the amplified electronic sounds generated by his invented instruments. 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. He has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations globally, including Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In addition to his own audio work, Bryan operates Public Eyesore Records, a producer of unusual and experimental music since the late 1990s. During his days, he can be found designing, building, and repairing exhibits at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.