Levon Henry

I’m really starting to wonder what music gear industry sales figures have been like all these years that the value of music itself has decreased - I’m overwhelmed by how many boutique new creative audio processing companies and tools are springing up left and right, the industry seems to be absolutely exploding. if you wanna know where the money in the industry has gone, perhaps consider how many fewer people it now takes to do any production or recording or live gig than ever before - man vs machine in terms of ramifications for labor wages have been the root industry problem since way before AI, before streaming, before Napster, maybe since the drum machine but probably before that maybe since we pressed recording even - I don’t think it matters how many laws or protections are passed, we have a legacy or replacing ourselves and then wondering how to still get paid. now with surveillance tech and AI, all of the fabric of our lives is in a sense being recorded and then reproduced for us and sold back to us sans intellectual property rights for the data we create and the bots we train and program. now Napster is everyone’s problem.

taking temps, would anyone here be into attending a music theory workshop in Brooklyn? please comment or d.m. to lmk and I’ll be in touch with those folks to find a space and a day! it’ll be just me overcoming my fear of chalk, so to speak. could be sliding scale! ty for reading 💐

tonight's the night - i'll be dueting with major inspiration @carmenquill at @tradesman_music and then playing electric bass (debut!) with @grr.radio - music starts 7pm <3

for the final Night Fishing at @theowlbk back in December, I asked @grr.radio to write some lyrics for an old instrumental of mine, which we played together with a spontaneous band of @officialmeshell @ceebrew @trixie_whitley @ryan_el_solh (shoutout to @isaacgillespiedotcom for catching this on camera!) - come hear the full song this monday 3/30 at @tradesman_music where Grace will join @carmenquill and I as a special guest before playing their own set after <3

March madness with @leave__on ft. @carmenquill 3/30 7pm @tradesman_music 🌱 hope to see you out there!

Monday March 30th at @tradesman_music at 7pm - a set of songs by Carney @grr.radio with a 4 piece band & a set of theatrical music for voice and winds by Levon Henry @leave__on accompanied by @carmenquill 💐

you’ve been warned but warning you’ll be warned again with shapes and colors soon enough 💐 @grr.radio @tradesman_music