FEATURED PROJECTS
Backwaters is a music-art project inspired by the natural beauty of the Upper Mississippi River Valley in the Driftless Region of the American Midwest. A collaboration between Nine Volt Media, Momentous Records and the Friends of the La Crosse River Marsh, a nonprofit preserving and maintaining wetlands and trail systems in western Wisconsin.
Backwaters debuted on August 3, 2020 with the simultaneous release of a video and album of instrumental music. The recording is a suite of six loosely linked guitar ensemble pieces by Mike Starling. In the video, the music for one of the tracks, “The Floating World," is accompanied by marsh landscape and wildlife photography by John F. Sullivan.
For a limited time, the music is free to download at Bandcamp. We ask that those who are able consider making a small donation to the Friends of the La Crosse River Marsh.
Backwaters debuted on August 3, 2020 with the simultaneous release of a video and album of instrumental music. The recording is a suite of six loosely linked guitar ensemble pieces by Mike Starling. In the video, the music for one of the tracks, “The Floating World," is accompanied by marsh landscape and wildlife photography by John F. Sullivan.
For a limited time, the music is free to download at Bandcamp. We ask that those who are able consider making a small donation to the Friends of the La Crosse River Marsh.
EXPERIENCE BACKWATERS
Stream/download album at Bandcamp
Friends of the La Crosse River Marsh donation page
Watch a News19 TV story about the project
La Crosse Local podcast interview with the artist
Stream/download album at Bandcamp
Friends of the La Crosse River Marsh donation page
Watch a News19 TV story about the project
La Crosse Local podcast interview with the artist
The city at night is nothing like the world we walk by day... so begins this multimedia project by Nine Volt artist Mike Starling. In this short film, Starling combines spoken word and electric guitar with still photography and moving pictures captured after dark in a variety of urban environments, including the cities of Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Ocala, Florida.
EXPERIENCE THE CITY AT NIGHT
New 2022 soundtrack with additional music remixes
Complete lyrics
The City at Night official project site
New 2022 soundtrack with additional music remixes
Complete lyrics
The City at Night official project site
The songs of Bean Hoy, one critic said, "are a laundry list of local and national maladies, often depicted with a dark sense of humor. As often as not, the music is as playful as the words. All in all, a reflection of inane pop culture, where one no longer condemns the plastic world around us but instead videotapes it for later when there's nothing else on."
Nine Volt teamed up with Momentous Records on a new Bean Hoy video and retrospective album called It's a Big Dumb World: A 25th Anniversary Collection, jam-packed with freshly remastered versions of an even dozen of the band's most popular tunes.
Nine Volt teamed up with Momentous Records on a new Bean Hoy video and retrospective album called It's a Big Dumb World: A 25th Anniversary Collection, jam-packed with freshly remastered versions of an even dozen of the band's most popular tunes.
Photography in "The Floating World" video ©John F. Sullivan. Music ©Mike Starling. Words, music and images in The City at Night film ©Mike Starling. Bean Hoy 25th anniversary video produced by Mike Starling and Brett Huus of Momentous Records. Music published by Bean Hoy Music (BMI). All rights reserved. Website ©MMXX-MMXXIII Nine Volt Media.