Elabor

A recording of my set from 03.10.26 at Gallery 5 is now available for free on bandcamp.

Fugue Live is now on bandcamp.

Another one in the books. Listen for free on bandcamp! Thank you to everyone who came out, to @wolfinwool.rva for organizing this fish tank series and for having me play, and of course to @studiotwothree for hosting the event. Hopefully the trio set with @rileyandseb and @jacobdaresmith will see the light of day soon. I think it’s really good.

@subvertworld is live! Many of you know that I have strong feelings about the ethics of music consumption, commodification, and distribution. The reliance on streaming services has done so much damage to musical culture, and if you’re still fooling yourself by saying that one streaming service is “more ethical” than another you need to wake the fuck up. Bandcamp has largely been seen as the best option but they’re still a corporate-owned entity who’s been guilty of union busting and driven by profit motive. Subvert is trying to change that. With a co-op model, this platform has the best chance of democratizing a music marketplace to actually benefit the artists on it. I’m hopeful that it will succeed. Check out their website to learn more, they’ve got a lot of great information there and they’re very transparent. I’ve got a few things up on my page already but moving forward I’ll be adding things here rather than bandcamp if it seems sustainable. (You don’t have to be a co-op member to listen.)

Thanks to everyone who came to our first show a few weeks back. It felt so good to get some of these songs out there. New show coming up at @clayhouselive with @softcatchband @obra.sincara and @skips_rva on May 16th. Can’t wait to see yall!!!! 📸: @2swagornot2swag (holy shit these turned out so good, thank you for shooting the show!!!)

the genius of @_elabor (here with @kristevaband at @ragandbonesrva ) #experimentalnatures

Huge thanks to @elabor and @p41i141i4 for performing last night at SWARM02. Huge thanks to @breakfasteater69 for making this amazing collage flyer. Big love to everyone who came out to support local electronic and experimental music, you mean the world to us. Hit us up or just follow for more deprogramming @swarmtactics #techno #experimentalelectronicmusic

Thank you to everyone who came out to Gallery5 to support me, @stephenvitiello + @mmerbernn , and @xor_music on his ongoing spring tour. It was a fantastic night, and everyone played a beautiful set. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out XOR’s bandcamp page and consider buying something if you like what you hear (which I’m sure you will.) Photo 1 of my performance courtesy of @_willowlaun

I’m not sure I can accurately express how grateful I am for everyone who came out to the screening last night. The turnout was far higher than I think any of us expected. With your contributions we were able to donate $457 to @gazasoupkitchen . A huge thanks to @sans.studio.jon.k for running sound, we’d have been lost without him, and to @studiotwothree for the use of their space. Hopefully we can do this again sometime!

NEW DATE! Now Sunday March 8th! Join us at Studio Two Three for a night of local ambient electronic music and independent cinema, with a double feature screening of Monument by Jeremy Drummond with a live score and extended performance by Robert Donne, and Fugue by Connor M. Barrett with a live score performed by Eric Eckhart as Elabor. Unfortunately due to the rescheduling, Willowlaun is no longer able to perform, but I’m very happy to say that local electronic musician Brandon Hurtado as Alleder has been added to the bill to kick us off. Doors at 7 Start at 8 We’re asking for a $10 donation, but NOTAFLOF, and all proceeds will be donated to @gazasoupkitchen I hope to see you there. Monument Jeremy Drummond, Sound: Robert Donne 17:27 Minutes, Color/Sound, Super 8/HD Video, 2025 Beginning in ghostly abstraction and accumulating texture by texture into a droning meditative trance, Monument deepens to a visual and sonic intensity, mixing Super 8 film with video footage to create a complicated, multilayered encounter with the tension of protest and reclamation. A vivid and energetic durational experience of collective resistance and celebration. Fugue Connor M. Barrett, Sound: Elabor/Eric Eckhart 30:00 minutes, 2025 “Fugue opens into the California haze, a place richly beautiful yet filled with a haunting uneasiness. An ominous painterly pastoral awakens to a duvet of fog and grazing livestock. The film’s imagery oscillates between landscapes and abstracted visions of those spaces — waves bathe rocky shorelines, light refracts into constellations, an arresting blood-red bodily web supersedes the pictorial, beams peek through the looming forest line. The film is further enriched by its symbiosis with its soundtrack by sound artist Eric Eckhart (Elabor.) Fugue is an invocation of the sublime with its enveloping elemental beauty and the arcane dread that this beauty harbors. Encountering this film feels like encountering a deep part of oneself. A longing for the sun.” -Liza Pittard @lizas_computer

Our first release is here! Go check it out on bandcamp or YouTube. Thanks for listening. Have a wonderful day. See yall soon. #rva #rvamusic #shoegaze #indiemusic

The Fishtank! Postponed!! Until we get the ice (and keep ICE) out of Richmond. New date is Thursday 2/26. Same lineup same place. Instead, make your voice heard at the Hanover Board of Supervisors meeting on Wednesday to stop the proposed ICE detention center! . . . #fuckice #improvisedsoundsforjustice #homesnotprisons