Jul 30, 2009

Music Video: Adam LaMotte's "Buildings and Highways"

Adam and I made a music video, hope you all like it:

Adam LaMotte - "Buildings and Highways" from Ben Seretan on Vimeo.

Jul 26, 2009

Sewing Machines on KCAL 9

It looks as if we forgot to mention this, but...

Sewing Machines recently appeared on broadcast television!
Here is a still from the news segment:



You can see the entire clip here, though the band's appearance is quite brief.

Jun 14, 2009

What I Been Up to (Ben S.)

Hey Future Folks,

Thought I might update the ol' blog on my goings on. As you may or may not no, I have my own blog under my nom de recording - Mute with Stupefaction. Below are some links and updates, featuring many of your favorite FFR artists.

1) I wrote a string quartet and some people performed it. You can read about it here and look at the score for it here. aliza_do_lots and Sylvia Ryerson also wrote quartets - looking forward to seeing them here eventually!

2) I've got a new song/demo up, recorded in the apartment shared by Green Grocer and Sewing Machines. You can hear it here. Special acknowledgment to this song goes to Asa Horvitz and Claire Staples, friends and contributors to Future Folk, whose theater production "The Secret Science of Forgetting" inspired the song. I also hope to see material from that production here eventually.

3) I have been doing a lot of photoshopping. Below is my take on Green Grocer:



4) Sewing Machines is going on tour!! Here's to you, America! Hope to see many of you soon.

BOOOSH,
ben

Jun 3, 2009

Future Folk shout out at Wesleyan commencement!

Future Folk got a shout at Wesleyan commencement!

"Students recently founded the label Future Folk records, a label that rethinks the current music model to democratize the music industry." !!!!


Read it Here!

May 30, 2009

HELP INVISIBLE CIRCLE BOOK A TOUR!

Hey everyone.

I'm currently planning a tour in August, and am looking for some help with some dates in the midwest and south. If any of you readers out there can help me and my friend Turner (www.myspace.com/rambletambleusa that would be awesome. Here is our tentative tour itinerary.

August 6th-Kickoff in Brooklyn
August 7th-Pittsburgh
August 8th-Cleveland
August 9th-Columbus
August 10th-Detroit
August 11th-Chicago
August 12th-Milwaukee
August 13th-St Louis
August 14th-Louisvile/Lexington
August 15th-Nashville
August 16th-Memphis
August 17th-Tuscaloosa
August 18th-Atlanta
August 19th-Asheville
August 20th-Winston Salem/Raleigh area?
August 21st-Lynchburg/Charlottesville/Richmond?
August 22nd-Baltimore
August 23rd-Philly
August 24th-NYC

Our first week is coming along well, except for Cleveland. The rest is a total mystery to me, although Turner, like a good southern boy, is working on those dates. Nothing is 100% confirmed yet though, so any contacts anyone can provide are most helpful.

THANKS!

Dave/Invisible Circle

May 2, 2009

And we're back!

Future Friends, the internet has restored us!

so the site works again.

also, please check out the future folk artists who are on bandcamp! My apologies to Devin and the C.P. for leaving him out of the website down email!
http://consciousnessproject.bandcamp.com/
http://sammoss.bandcamp.com/
http://sewingmachines.bandcamp.com/

May 1, 2009

website down

Hello dear future friends,

I'm writing to tell you that due to some technical difficulties, our website is currently offline.
we were trying to set up a SSL certificate for another site that is hosted on the same server as Future Folk, and the admins over at our hosting service messed up proper by redirecting all the traffic, which consequently breaks our site. Hopefully the site will be back soon, and no fear, we have no intention of going anywhere!!! untill then, consider future folk in a sort of spring hibernation/cleaningmode...

all my love,
Rod