For Spam New Media Festival St Celfer creates future folk improvisations that use glitch-tronics treading failure; sound is amalgamated and congealed into a resolution of crossed and overloaded signals. During the isolation of the pandemic St Celfer devised instruments focused on the interface between man and machine. Currently they mount to a single mic stand with interconnected gear attached and arranged so that the player can best make music in the moment. Each unique performance embraces sensory overload in order to unlock ways of perceiving a world made narrow by the impositions of power. 



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“(The) Amazon is now a confluence of consumption instead of the main source of life on planet Earth." - from I thought U thought I, an ongoing collection of aphorisms. St Celfer puts technology into service rather than worship at a new god. 4 albums over 4 years are named "New & Notable" by the editors at Bandcamp.com including one featured wave track for Infrasonica.org issue #7, ‘Voicing Abstraction’.

"There is a lot of noise today - we just need to hear the music within it." Recent interviews include Tom Moody's blog, Invert/Extant (UK), and the School of Commons (Zurich). St Celfer, of Korean and American origin, floats between Seattle, NYC and São Paulo where you can find drawings on the 'Space Between Points' in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACUSP). John MacDougall Parker is a graduate of Princeton studying history and architecture, the University of Pennsylvania, MFA (painting), and was once a BFA candidate at the University of Washington studying under Denzil Hurley while a coach and former Olympic athlete who, in the spirit of Charles Ives, always made art and music alongside.



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