Live performance at Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson, NY are streamed live at wgxc.org, and occasionally broadcast live on WGXC 90.7-FM. Live webstream for this show available from Wave Farm and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u. This show will be rebroadcast on Wave Farm Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM at midnight (the night of the show), Fri., Oct.. 11, 2013.

Jonah Parzen-Johnson is a baritone saxophonist living in Brooklyn, NY. His techniques including circular breathing, multi-phonics, and vocalization owes a debt to his Chicago hometown's sound. Parzen-Johnson is also a member of the afrobeat ensemble, Zongo Junction. Loud & Sad is a collaboration between Joe Houpert and Nathan McLaughlin, currently based out of Philadelphia, PA and Hudson, NY. Both individually in their solo work, and together in this duo, Houpert and McLaughlin explore the vocabulary of the reel-to-reel tape machine as a partner in accompaniment. They have built up this tape machine vocabulary through various phases of their work, utilizing a variety of instrument sources and trying to ground those in social concepts and ideas. The current focus is adding folk instrumentation to that vocabulary, with renewed emphasis being put into the energy of live performance. They have a number of releases that chronicle their various incarnations on labels such as cae-sur-a, FET Press, Digitalis, Greenup Industries and an upcoming release on Tranquility Tapes. You can also hear their work as part of the trio Tilth, with Cody Yantis.