Luke Bussuener + Glacial Lakes Conservancy
Luke Bassuener
Asumaya is the solo-looping project of Madison WI multi instrumentalist,
Luke Bassuener, whose music is built from layers of interlocking harmonies and rhythmic patterns to form churning compositions that make heads spin and feet move. Drawing inspiration from his time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, and from his other lives as a public elementary school art teacher and a part-time
post-punk-dub-jazz drummer, Bassuener's songs sound like a warped world music from a place that might not exist.
Visit Asumaya on Bandcamp.
www.asumaya.bandcamp.com
Asumaya profile on WPT.
watch the profile.
Glacial Lakes Conservancy
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, Inc. is a private, non-profit land conservation organization. The original founders saw that during the 1990s, approximately 8,000 rural acres were subdivided for residential purposes in the unincorporated areas of Sheboygan County alone, prompting a deep concern for the future of our region’s lands and waters.
This realization prompted the founding of the Sheboygan Area Land Conservancy in 1996. Originally, this was an all volunteer organization with a goal of serving to protect and preserve natural areas and farmland within the Sheboygan Country area in Wisconsin.
Today, the land trust offers land conservation options, organizational support, and technical guidance to landowners and organizations in a five-county region: Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Kewaunee, Calumet and Fond du Lac. GLC owns five properties: William F. Christel Woods and Wetlands Preserve, Grasshopper Hill Preserve, Charles & Winifred Spring West Twin River Preserve, Willow Creek Preserve, the Hunner Preserve, and also holds 30 conservation easements.
Residency Work
While in residence Luke created wood block prints and recorded an album Of, Water, Land, & Sky, which is created with a collection of loop samples.
These prints Luke created, were turned into short animations and accompanied by the sound tracks composed with samples Luke collected from the property at Willow Creek. Samples Luke used included sounds like birds, grass swishes, tapping on logs or things left behind by those that had been there before.
Listen to the album here at Dagoretti Records.
