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Improvisor/composer E. Jason Gibbs (b. 1969) is a field recordist and sound artist  based in Portland, Maine. He works with field recordings, electronics and guitar and has been active in experimental music communities since the late 80’s.

While Gibbs’s work for guitar is completely improvised (drawing on minimalism, noise, free jazz and fingerstyle), his compositions are built from field recordings, and explore the relationship between the built and natural worlds and how humans impose themselves on environments. Inspired by liminal spaces where cities and nature overlap, the latter composed works also include the sounds of people in urban environments, filtered and captured through resonances on, or in, structures.

Gibbs’s live performances combine field recording compositions with electro-magnetic manipulations and digital feedback. Gibbs has releases on Industrial Coast (UK), 577 Records, Confront (UK) and Open Systems, Super Pang, etc. and a new cd release coming soon on Traced Objects. 

“Fish Point”, a recent composition featuring the sounds of Portland’s East End waterfront, was selected by The Engine Room at Morley College, London as a finalist for their international sound art competition and included in the exhibition at Morley Gallery.

As part of his practice, Gibbs also runs the label Open Systems, releasing LPs, cds and digital-only titles for himself and others.

M P LANDIS has been working in various visual media since childhood. In 1989 he moved To Provincetown, MA to concentrate on painting and began exhibiting almost immediately and was awarded a solo exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 1995. Soon after, he moved to Brooklyn, NY where he lived and worked until 2015 when he and his family moved to Portland, Maine. Since 1990 he has been in over 30 solo exhibitions and numerous 2-person and group exhibits and is included in many public and private collections.