Gongwater is messy, alive, and unpredictable. Tim O’Brien, Paul Rudy, Mike Ray, and Mike Quillin are less concerned with polished product than with what passes through them, to you. Their sound is like the residue left behind in the bowl—not the thing itself, but a reflection, a shimmer, an echo of what music might be. Noise, silence, resonance, and accident all flow together in their improvisations. Gongwater thrives in the in-between: where listening becomes discovery, and where each performance is as unrepeatable as a ripple on water at the jagged edge of a shoreline.
