Beef Studio

Check me out on SoundCloud! ‘Follow’ my page, why not? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Gonna be bulking this space up with new music in the coming days, weeks, and months. I’ve been working on a whole bunch of pretty good stuff behind the scenes.

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Ken Topham Ken Topham is a world-renowned performer, composer, and educator of music.

This is the artwork I created for my band GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES!’s release titled “Rite Of Summer.” It is a digital collage. The piece took me about 50 hours to complete. My favorite part of the process of making this was creating the customized shadows for all the creatures. Composing the music took longer and is one of my favorite pieces in the band’s catalogue.

“Rite Of Summer” is available for digital download at Bandcamp.com and is streaming on all platforms.
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Howdy friends,
I have a page all cooked up for Beef Studio over here. I made it a while ago. I plan on populating it with much more content, as I have been amassing a significant pile of new music and multimedia projects. Maybe you can convince your cool friends to go ahead and like my page, eh?

(Don’t tell Zuckerberg)

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Beef Studio Modular creative hotspot located in the middle of the western part of Massachusetts. Audio and video

THE BLEED is an album that was recorded over the course of more than a decade, in studios, bedrooms, basements, hotel rooms, and tool sheds across North America. Many of the pieces of music on the album are comprised of combinations of recordings from various points in time within a ten-year span. For example: a piece may include vocals, guitar and bass tracks I recorded in different spaces in Santa Cruz, CA in 2008, a piano track recorded in Ludlow, MA in 2012, combined with drum and vocal tracks I recorded in Easthampton, MA in 2016, and a baritone sax recorded in Monson, MA in 2019. Some musique concrète samples combine sounds from scenes in environments recorded in a variety of spaces across America.

THEREFORE…

THE BLEED is a collection of pieces of music recorded by multiple versions of myself, all collaborating from different points in time and space. With this concept in mind, THE BLEED slowly evolved into it’s own entity that simultaneously exists within and outside of time.
It may help the reader/listener to visualize multiple photo transfer sheets overlaid, with each instrument part for each piece being played by a different version of myself at a different point in time and space, but all coordinated in sync to create a new self-contained space that exists outside of the concept of a traditional linear timeline.

THE BLEED is an eclectic collection of styles, genres, song forms, and electro-acoustic ensemble combos. Almost every single sound captured, performed, recorded, composed, arranged, and mixed on this album was created by me, in isolation.

This album is dense with instrumentation and experimentation. It begs the listener for multiple listens to broaden and deepen the overall experience. For, with each subsequent listen, new material presents itself to us as we progress through our own perceived timelines.

THE BLEED demands an open and vulnerable approach from the listener. Suspend your preconceptions and allow the music to wash over and through you.

Thank you,
Ken Topham

THE BLEED, by Ken Topham 11 track album