bio

Hey Exit is Brendan Landis playing guitar, koto, and voice. He focuses on improvisation as a way of exploring how one relates to an instrument, a collaborator, an audience, and a self. His sound is usually pretty aggressive and spikey, emphasizing interruption, contrast, and quick changes in perspective.

He plays guitar in Rough Weather, guitar and computer in Esther Chlorine, and koto in Tethers.

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I hang out on the internet a lot. Catch me at the usual: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, SoundCloud, Last.fm.

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news

Fri Sep 9th: Long time! Things are busy here. Real quick:

• Here's a split I did with the venerable and mysterious DJ Embryonicpetitsac, available from Of Plants (download + c20 cassette). His track is an amalgam of performances from a recent east coast tour; mine is an etude for prepared guitar.
• Here's a 40 minute release from Tethers, an improv duet with my friend Andrew Weathers. I play koto, he plays banjo.
• Of Plants is gearing up for some exciting releases from Billy Whatever, Numbermuncher, and VSLS. Hit us on the Twitter!
• I did a remix recently for He Can Jog's final album, Norwood, Wisconsin. I believe it's set to be released on a single that will accopmany the album - peep his site for the deets!
• I'm booking a bunch of shows in the San Francisco area this Fall, for Tethers, and for Esther Chlorine, another improv duet with tape player Greg Garbage.
• In November / December I'll playing koto in Osaka & Kyoto, then probably hanging out in Tokyo for a bit. Yow!

Will update the shows list on this page for real pretty soon.

all love,
B

Fri Jan 14th: My band Rough Weather just finished up an EP - go check it out!

Sun Dec 26th: Got a few hits for the Chime app over on the whatevs page, so I figured I'd upload the source for that. Cheers!

Sun Dec 12th: Now this site is here.

shows

• 11/27/11 - koto @ Chikushikai Zenkoku Taikai in Osaka
• 11/28/11 - koto with Shirley Muramoto + Brian Wong @ Doshisha University, Kyoto
• 12/04/11 - solo guitar @ UrBANGUILD, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto. Playing with オルグル, スナトメリ, Fello (Andi Otto)
• 12/10/11 - solo guitar and / or koto @ Trade, Sell & Moon Viewing Party. in Tennoji-ku, Osaka.
• 12/11/11 - guitar with Jerry Gordon, Meri Nikula, Yangjah @ MIIT House, Konohana-ku, Osaka
• 12/13/11 - guitar with Fujiwara Daisuke @ Test Tone #76: Unkown Concordance, in Super-Deluxe, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Playing with Tin Can Trio (Scott Jordan, Take, Lead Sister II) and Quick aka Nathan Kelly (from Perth) + AEN aka Yasufumi Suzuki (soundroom)
• 12/14/11 - solo guitar with DJ Evil Penguin, けるびるびょょょょょょ〜ん, DJ MEMAI, u＋uco, 金属鳥軍, Kelly Churko @ Bonobo in Harajuku, Tokyo.
• 12/21/11 - guitar with Kawol Samarkand @ Sam's Bar in Naka-ku, Yokohama. Playing with Takeshi Inoue, Yuka Niko.
• 12/24/11 - guitar with uhrhythm, Ashililera, Sakamoto Shin'ichi, Kimura Press, Kawai Hitoshi, Nakao Chisato, Yoshimoto Yumiko, M.A.G.I, Suzuki Mikiko, Fukuda Rie, Ando Yuko, Matsui Shuji, Asano Koutarou @ Live House Morgana, Kokubanji-shi, Tokyo.
• 12/27/11 - solo guitar at Next Sunday in Asagaya, Tokyo. Playing with SAWADA, kawol, and Yumiko Yoshimoto + kanomi

past shows