Songs from the Infinite Plan – Brett William Dietz (2018)
Excerpts from Dietz’s collection of 15 intermediate mallet duets. Recorded at Louisiana State University.
Spiritual Gifts – Joe W. Moore, III (2018)
Joe Moore pens a beautiful collection of Bible-referenced miniatures for percussion quartet. Performed by the composer’s own group, Dead Resonance.
Canon Fodder – Chad Heiny (2017)
Chad Heiny’s work, Canon Fodder, was the first piece we tracked for Dead Resonance’s album, silence is not a transition. Fun times with a lot of drums.
Origin of Savagery – Brett William Dietz (2017)
Dead Resonance records Dietz’s Origin of Savagery – written for the group’s debut album, “silence is not a transition”.
Timber Remixed – Michael Gordon & Mantra Percussion (2016)
Traxler Studios (NYC) mixed and mastered Timber LIVE @ the 2014 Bang on a Can Marathon, Winter Garden, NYC. Released with Michael Gordon’s Timber Remixed, an A-list of experimental electronic artists on Cantaloupe Records (2016).
My Side of the Story – Andy Meyerson (2016)
Andy Meyerson “performs” my work, Structural Harm. Created at Traxler Studios (NYC), August 2015 for Slashsound Records.
Fourfold – Dead Resonance (2016)
Dead Resonance started as a remote composition project between Brett Dietz, Chad Heiny, Joe W. Moore III, and Jude Traxler. Fourfold is our “quadruple-music”.
CPU (EP) – Echo Artifact (2016)
CPU (a post-apocalyptic electronic opera for the end of the world, in one act.)
An original story told in fourteen songs.
Don’t Look Back – Jenny Olivia Johnson (2015)
We tracked great music by Jenny Olivia Johnson at Octaven Studios in Yonkers, NY for Innova Records.
Pieces for People – Paula Matthusen (2015)
Mantra Percussion & Jamie Jordan perform, The Days Are Nouns, for Paula Matthusen’s album, Pieces for People (2015). Recorded and mixed at Traxler Studios (NYC) for Innova Records.
Public Transaction – Ian Williams (2015)
Mantra Percussion and Ian Williams perform the world premiere of his electro-acoustic work, Public Transaction, on the 2015 Ecstatic Music Festival in NYC.
Mantra @ So Studios (NYC)
Al Cerulo and Jude Traxler play a workshop version of Mantra’s new work with composer / guitarist Ian Williams.
Correlates – Joseph Van Hassel (2014)
Joey Van Hassel performs Stuart Saunders Smith’s glockenspiel solo, On: Empty, for his album, Correlates (2014). Recorded, mixed and mastered at Traxler Studios (NYC) for Soundest Recordings.
Elias Howe School – PS 51 Musicians (2014)
Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Traxler Studios (NYC) under the direction of PS51 music teacher, Katie Traxler.
The Paha Sapa Give-Back – Jerome Kitzke (2014)
Playing Jerome Kitzke’s powerful work, Paha Sapa Give-Back, with Mad Coyote at Kaleidoscope Studios (NJ) for Innova Records.
Scratchtracks – Brett William Dietz (2014)
Scratchtracks: The Music of Jude Traxler (2014)
Featuring Brett William Dietz with Chemorocket and futureCities
The Knells – The Knells (2013)
NYC new music supergroup, The Knells, releases Andrew McKenna Lee’s concept album of the same name on the New Amsterdam label.
Nocturne – Brett William Dietz (2013)
Brett Dietz’s solo glockenspiel album that includes my solo, Revolver, for glockenspiel and 6-channel delay.
Revolver (SUITE)
A six-piece suite (in progress) for solo keyboard and 6-channel playback where the end of one piece begins the next. All tunes are based on transcriptions of some of the most influential songs in my life from the pop idiom.
TRAXLA – Nov 2012
Luke Traxler and I had been building a dubstep metal band for the last few years. Imagine seeing your favorite DJs actually performing intricate, hard-hitting original jams, rather than simply hitting PLAY on their laptops. Check out this improv with an eclectic collection of samples from Jaco to Björk.