In pictures and onstage, Cameron Mesirow is often shrouded, wearing a mask, for instance, or cloaked in kaleidoscopic light from the projections that are part of her set. In person, Mesirow, who makes music as Glasser, is an open book: friendly, high-spirited, and willing to share nearly any detail, from her self-consciousness about her music’s digital infrastructure to the particulars of her dreams. This project, she says, exists in a state “between sleep and wakefulness,” and even the Glasser name came from a midnight vision of a figure hovering over water. The songs’ content emerges from the same place, and their structure grows slowly from the in-headphone trance Mesirow cultivates when she’s working.Sometimes it takes the eye of an outsider to see something others would miss. No one better exemplifies that than Mesirow. Though her just-released Apply EP brings the number of Glasser songs in circulation to a spare six, Mesirow’s output is earning an abundance of attention for its consistently charming mix of artfulness and unvarnished beauty. Composed on Apple’s GarageBand program, songs feature her hypnotic voice layered over an array of synth sounds and prefab percussive loops. It’s sublime, drone-prone electronic folk, not that Mesirow had anything like that in mind when she started Glasser.
The Auerglass is a two person pump organ created by Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow. The instrument cannot be played alone. Each player has a keyboard with alternating notes of a four octave scale. Each player must pump to supply the wind to the other player's notes.The Auerglass was included in the exhibition: Tauba Auerbach HERE AND NOW/AND NOWHERE at Deitch Projects September 3–October 17, 2009 Performances Tuesday through Saturday at 5pm daily. Special performances September 3 and September 11 at 8:00pm followed by Glasser
Performance outfits created for Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow by Ida Falck Øien. The Auerglass was constructed by Parsons Pipe Organs in Canandegua, New York
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