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This month’s SNS features a collaboration between two excellent ambient/electronic artists, Ben Seretan and M Geddes Gengras.

Ben Seretan is an accomplished instrumentalist, songwriter, and performer living and working in New York City. He has performed hundreds of concerts since striking out on his own as a solo artist in 2011. He has also been selected for a number of residency awards, including the Wassaic Project in 2012, the Sitka Fellows Program in 2013, and Flux Factory in 2014. Additionally, Ben has released a dazzling portfolio of recorded work ranging from introspective song collections to full band ragers to calm, minimal guitar drones.

Hudson, New York-based experimental musician and synthesizer aficionado M. Geddes Gengras has been involved with numerous projects ranging from psych-folk and noise rock to dub reggae and cosmic ambient drone. He became an in-demand collaborator during the second half of the 2000s, participating in experimental groups such as Robedoor and Pocahaunted, before he began releasing solo cassettes and CD-Rs of his modular synthesizer improvisations in 2009. Along with close associate Sun Araw (Cameron Stallones), Gengras worked with influential reggae group the Congos on the acclaimed 2012 release Icon Give Thank. He has issued several ambitious long-form drone works, including 2018's double-CD Light Pipe, as well as noisy experimental techno as Personable and under his own name (2020's Time Makes Nothing Happen). 2022's Expressed, I Noticed Silence featured his brother Cyrus Gengras, his former collaborator in the duo Antique Brothers.