Sue Ann Harkey

Bandcamp has all my recent music and my CNLF cassette and vinyl album archive available for free streaming or download.

Soundcloud is used for collaborations and working tracks as well as live concert recordings.

Gigs

RESONANCE – May 31, 2024
A loud ambient music show featuring pipe organ, Hammond organ*, synthesizers, and strings – big sound in big space.

Live at Woodlawn Hall (Seattle, WA) with WOYNICH, Sue Ann Harkey, Von Jord, & Phylyps Hue performing as individual acts, mixed groups, and collective ensembles.

Wayward in Limbo #109 – April 30, 2021
Veteran improvisor Sue Ann Harkey goes back to her solo prepared guitar roots on that $50 electric 12-string she bought over 40 years ago. Each piece is a change in implementation on an open-tuning that can do no wrong. Here is a repertoire of sounds drawn from the intimacy she has with her instrument and her proven experimental approach.

What Happens If I Do Nothing – Field Recordings to improvise to – December 21st, 2017 Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center – Seattle

Sue Ann Harkey, prepared guitar & recordings, joined by Lori Goldston, cello and Greg Kelley, trumpet.

For years I have been collecting sound recordings. Sounds of wild dogs roaming the Goa night. Sounds of cicadas along the Woodstock stream. Sounds of receding waves over Brighton’s shingle beach. Sounds of the screeching Central Line between Bethnal Green and Liverpool Street stations. Calls of the Cockney barkers at Columbia Road flower market. And relics from my past – extracting the cut-up tape track from my 1985 recording The Green House Effect (what we called “climate change” 32 years ago). I took these recordings because they sounded like music to me. Ambience, rhythms, dissidence.

Articles

The Stranger – Slog – Dec. 20, 2017 Lost Classic Album Alert—Sue Ann Harkey’s The Ancient Past and the Ancient Future Are Both Seconds Away

Radio

KEXP – Sonarchy Play Nov 17, 2014 > “Sue Ann Harkey — A unique and beautiful sound from this artist. Sue Ann Harkey (guitars and vocals), Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), Angelina Baldoz (trumpet, voice and bass) and Steve Peters (field recordings).”
Visit Doug Haire’s SONARCHY Feed on KEXP >

Hollow Eartth Radio The Sea-Port Beat: The Independent Music Legacy of The Pacific Northwest
Listen on Soundcloud – Episode 6: The Domestic Art of Home Recording: This episode is simply about home recording. You’ll get a peek into the recording life of Anacortes musician, Karl Blau, as his process of a recording a song is documented. Another segment focuses on musician, Sue Ann Harkey, as she describes her experience with starting an in-home recording label. (Kenneth Piekarski, Episode Producer)

Film

THE NEW PUNKS After the inception of punk rock these musicians took the notion many steps forward. Featuring: The Haters, Hunting Lodge, Audio Leter, Borbetomagus, Medicine, Debt of Mature, Screw Machine, John Trubee & The Ugly Janitors of America.

UNSOUND REDUX is a series of four films from Talk Story Films inspired by Unsound magazine that was published in the 1980’s.

WIRE 14|08|2015 – New films: Talk Story Films release two new William Davenport documentaries: The New Punks and The Great American Cassette Masters

Videos

YouTube Hallow Earth Radio Magma Fest 2011 > Harp-Guitar Duet with Lori Goldston, cello

YouTube Chapel Performance Space 2014 > Trio performs ‘In Still Air Like This’ Tari Nelson-Zagar, violin and Angelina Baldoz, trumpet