CST072 Nick Kuepfer | Avestruz CST021 Using custom-built equipment to translate

Using custom-built equipment to translate breath and heart rate into variegated sonic triggers

Black Ox made two acclaimed albums of roiling acoustic avant-folk in the mid-2000s

The album then shifts to what might be called more ‘finite’ songs (each clocking in at 4-6 minutes)

with performances at the legendary Mariposa Folk Festival among others

but they were moving towards more sublime dynamics and harmonics

CST072 Nick Kuepfer | Avestruz CST021 Using custom-built equipment to translateNick Kuepfer has been a fixture of Montreal's avant folk improv underground since moving to the city in the mid 2000s. Nick has done service in numerous groups past and present, including L'Embuscade, Echoes Still Singing Limbs, Aids Wolf, One Candle Power, and Hrsta. Kuepfer also hosted wonderfully claustrophobic shows at his Rap Machines rehearsal and screenprinting space (until eviction by the landlord in 2011) and he continues to design and