Music
Records and projects released alongside the research.
Ford’s Theater: A Conspiracy in Wood
Performed as a solo vaudeville spectacle at Ford’s Theatre, a one-man show built from lantern light, creaking floorboards, and the kind of stories that don’t stay buried. One performer. A stool. A briefcase. And a raft that shouldn’t float.
Whistle & Whittle
An Appalachian machine record: part ridge-line hymn, part factory-floor ghost story. Banjo, whistle, low industrial pulse and field-recording texture, moving like a place becoming a system: woods into rail, rail into road, road into company, company into signal.
Le Velvet Rouge
A velvet-curtain noir record. Lounge shadows, cabaret atmosphere, low electronic pulse, ghost strings, and the hush of a room where every beautiful surface feels slightly dangerous.
Los Alumbrados
Desert mysticism with a knife under the altar: outlaw folk, ritual percussion, Spanish code, saint imagery, and low cinematic atmosphere, through roadside shrines and moonlit border roads.
The Butcher Holler Company
An Appalachian folk band built on porch songs, gospel memory, bluegrass picking, miner-ballad grit, and the old humor of families who made music because that was how they carried the day.