Arthur King

Arthur King is an evolving ensemble of musicians serving as a vehicle for process-based sonic experimentation.

One Friday night in September ‘24, Arthur King was invited by Ned with an experimental premise: what might happen when two dear friends with musical abilities play together for the first time, live on the radio?

To be fair, all of Arthur King’s releases are performances, all are recorded live, and all are created with the one rule of total-improvisation. The result is no two sessions that are quite alike, though an undeniable thread of experimentation can be spun between them all. On this evening at Ned’s, the first such happening in the intimacy of his home studio, it was an energetic stew of old friends, live broadcast, and new collaborations. Peter with his aged push-button drum machine and Chris with variously tuned stringed instruments, and sharing a live mic, set out to explore a novel way to meet in a creative moment, and make meaning together. The consequence of their listening produced intimate whispers, breaths of air, ethereal drones, pounding monsoon thunder darkening once clear skies, and the sporadic gasps of eroded circuitry. Use your ears and hear a music of friendship, interweaving itself towards kinship.

And the airwaves were filled, and Ned Learner seemed happy as the facilitator, and thanks to Kid 606 for being the instigator.