Alexander Kort is a filmmaker, installation artist and cellist, who plays both the electric and acoustic variants of the instrument, as well as double bass. He has performed as both a traditional classical instrumentalist and also played more improvisational, experimental electro-acoustic music. His credits include performances with Tony Conrad, The Phantom Of The Opera, The Thief Of Baghdad and creating creating "mindstream", an orchestral arrangement of a song by Meat Beat Manifesto which accompanied his directly animated film.Kitundu is an experimental composer, graphic artist and musical instrument builder widely known for his family of phonoharps. He handcrafts these unique electro-acoustic instruments that are one part turntable, one part stringed instrument. The string instrument components can range from standard harps and guitars to traditional West African instruments like the Kora. In addition to collaborating with groups such as Kronos Quartet, Kitundu is a professor at the California College of the Arts, a regular Artist-In-Residence at a number of institutions on the West Coast and in 2008 was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. "Min-Oh" is the first track on the EP, commencing with a smattering of string textures, looped feedback and flecked operatic soprano textures reminiscent of a murky distant memory. The latter clearly must have come from the record player component of Kitundu's phonoharp. This introduction gives way lazily to a flurry of contrapuntal plucked micro-melodies evocative of a master Kora player like Djeli Moussa Sissoko. At one point, a distinctly Malian refrain appeared ever so fleetingly, it nostalgically made me listen ever so much more attentively.On "Rokafela", Kort and Kitundu go on a distinctly asymmetrical experimental electro-acoustic jaunt, presenting the listener with a veritable haberdashery of alien tones, amorphous percussive spasms and utterly exquisite sonic contradictions!With "So", we're back in an acoustic space with layered spaciousness and clusters of smokey, harp and cello lines evoke smoldering embers of sound. Kort is fantastic on the cello, bowing dark melancholic, rustic phrases, while Kitundu's plucked phonoharp flickers gentle harplike ostinatos with effortless warmth. The sonic versatility of the phonoharp and its compatibility with the cello is on full display here. This is perhaps my favorite piece of the EP as Kort's carefully executed electric cello lines manifest as filtered through the technological and cultural prism of the Kitundus's phonoharp stylus.