Performance: Collector of Dust

On the evening of Friday, September 20, we proudly hosted Robert Pepper’s experimental music/media project Pas Musique (NYC), noise artist Mathieu Sylvestre (FR) and Reon Moebius’ (CMH) project Collector of Dust (CMH).
About the artist:
Reon Moebius is a self taught multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the independent internet record label Argali Records, which he co-operates with Nathan James Carter since 2009. As a transplant to Columbus: Reon Moebius has been actively working on both recorded material for his various band projects and loosely involved in performing at various special events and venues within Franklin County since moving in 2017 either as a solo performer under the moniker ‘Seagull Died On Impact’ or involved in adhoc ensembles with other local Columbus musicians involved in various underground/experimental music circles.
Over ten years in the making: Collector Of Dust integrates many of Reon’s formal musical influences such as contemporary classical, post punk, post rock, dreampop, & shoegaze to be synthesized in the studio as a one-man orchestra: multi tracked instruments & crooned vocals layered to create sweeping and hauntingly minimal song based compositions that are more than the sum of their parts. The goal of this project is to as Reon put it: ‘make the intimate grand & make the grand intimate’. By bringing ambitiously avant garde inclinations and endeavors out of stuffy academic institutions and into open, public spaces such as DIY art galleries and local music audiences.
Collector Of Dust makes it’s live performance debut initially as a duo featuring Reon playing bowed electric guitar, singing,and handling live drum machine programming and Drew Sherrick accompanying him on effects laden electric upright bass. But in any future live setting: this project is meant to be a collaborative venture for Reon and whomever is enlisted given the circumstances to flesh out his self described ‘wall of sound/chambergaze’ song-suites and presenting to audiences ‘the intimate made grand and the grand made intimate’.