VĪXĪ
Endectomorph Music
released November 22, 2024

Personnel:
Steve Long - piano, organ, composition
Travis Bliss - tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
Nick Neuburg - drums, percussion

VĪXĪ is an album by composer and pianist Steve Long exploring the boundaries between composition and improvisation. It draws on chant, microtonality, and the rhythmic complexity of spoken word for forms. Inspired by the symbolism and superstition surrounding the numbers 17, the music transforms cyclical structures and stylized melodies into shifting patterns where form and ornament continually blur. The album brings together experimental music, contemporary composition, and improvisation to explore repetition, transformation, and the tension between control and chance.

Dirge
Dear Life Records
released September 24, 2021

Featured artists:
Track 2: ‘Lazulum’ featuring Steven Long, organ
Track 4: ‘Last Dance’ featuring Cleek Schrey, daxophone
Track 7: ‘Bellows’ featuring Chaz Knapp, tape machines/organ

Dirge is an experimental viola project by New York musician Joanna Mattrey, combining extended techniques, preparations, electronics, and improvisation with influences from folk music, classical music, and the NYC noise scene. Moving between harsh noise and soaring melody, Mattrey uses memory as a compositional tool to create music that evokes forgotten traditions, ritual, and ceremony. The resulting work transforms chaos into fleeting moments of beauty and stillness, connecting experimental music and improvisation with the sounds and sensibilities of traditional folk music.

blender collection
by eloquent vulgar
released August 1, 2024

eloquent vulgar is Steve Long and Kalli Mathios

blender collection is a work by poet Kalli Mathios, and composer and pianist Steve Long. It explores time and process, through experimental music and text. A poem is continually reshaped through dice-based procedures. Disjointed images, chance encounters, and physical gestures create a shifting palimpsest where meaning emerges between movement and stillness, restriction and freedom, past and present.

Code-Talker
Tripticks Tapes
released October 15, 2021

Steve Long - Pipe-organ

Code-Talker is a solo pipe organ album by composer and organist Steve Long, recorded live at St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York City. Inspired by the linguistic Code-Talker paradox, the project explores language, communication, memory, and personal history through guided improvisation and musical fragments drawn from different periods of Long’s life. Blending experimental music, contemporary composition, and improvisation, the album unfolds like an encrypted message shaped by the pipe organ and the resonant acoustics of the chapel.

Code Talker II
Astral Spirits
released October 28, 2022

Steve Long - Pipe-organ, Composition
Henry Fraser - Double Bass

Code-Talker II is a live experimental music project by composer and organist Steve Long. This current iteration includes bassist Henry Fraser. It was recorded at St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York City. Inspired by the linguistic Code-Talker paradox, the album explores language, communication, identity, and the ways musical systems can both enable and obstruct understanding. Using a memorized internal score, pipe organ and double bass move through slowly unfolding structures that blur composition and improvisation, creating music that is spare, vulnerable, and immersive.

Strider
Dear Life Records
released February 10, 2023

Joanna Mattrey: Stroh Violin, Field Recordings
Steven Long: Organ, Stove, Barometer, Synth, Short-wave Radio

Strider is the first duo album by Joanna Mattrey and Steve Long. This ambient-experimental record combines concise melodic lines with improvisation, field recordings, electronics, and unconventional instruments. Recorded in upstate New York and Brooklyn, the duo incorporates sounds from the Hudson River, found objects, Stroh violin, a vintage organ, synthesizers, shortwave radio, and toy keyboards. Unlike traditional long-form ambient music, Strider presents a collection of short, static ambient songs, each built around a single musical character or sonic idea.