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Mattingly Creter ’27 interviewed Anthony Goodfellow, a practitioner in residence and studio manager in the Department of Music, Theater, and Dance to get an inside look at some of his recent projects. Below is a lightly edited transcript of their conversation:

Mattingly: Thanks for sitting down with me today. Can you give a little background about yourself, such as your position here at the University of New Haven, what classes you teach, and your musical background?

Professor Goodfellow: I’m originally from Bristol, in the southwest of the United Kingdom. My partner is from Connecticut, and we settled here during the pandemic. I currently teach Studio Recording and Music Production. I’ve been making music since I was a teenager but only really took it seriously in the early 2000s. Since then, I have been very active in various mutant forms of electronic music and spent a decade living in mainland Europe in electronic music capitals such as Berlin and Amsterdam.

MC: You were recently on tour in Europe. How was that experience?

PG: Very nice, thank you! It had been quite some time since I did any shows in the UK, and it was so nice to reconnect with a lot of old friends, and the shows went very well also.

MC: Sounds like a great time! You also just released an album for a separate project called “The Arcane and Paranormal Earth.” What is the Ye Gods project?

PG: Ye Gods is an outlet for my most experimental ideas. It combines minimal techno, noise, drone, and complex computer-audio processing for its sound.

MC: What were your goals in terms of sound and style for “The Arcane & Paranormal Earth?”

PG: The album is the first part of a trilogy. This is the “grounded” one.

MC: How did you experiment with or evolve your sound with this album?

PG: I think as an artist you have to be constantly working to push yourself outside of any comfort zone in order to evolve. The previous album was an experiment in how minimalist I can be. This one was about pushing the computer as far as it will go before turning into pure noise.

MC: Were there any significant challenges or breakthroughs during the writing or production process?

PG: I purposely took my time on these three records. Sometimes fighting my own impatience is hard, but mostly I trusted that I was headed in the right direction and didn’t force anything to be completed before it’s time.

MC: Interesting. You’re also involved in another project called HEATSYNC, could you describe that?

PG: HEATSYNC is a vinyl-only techno party thrown about three to five times a year at Cafe 9 in downtown New Haven. It is now also a record label. We are a collective of seven DJs and visual artists who throw parties and bring guests from the wider techno scene in both the US and Europe.

MC: Any other upcoming music plans for you?

PG: I have a short run of dates opening for Scottish Post-Rock legends Mogwai and equally legendary 90s alt-rock band Brainiac in April. The second Ye Gods record will be out then, along with the 3rd part coming in the summer, hopefully coinciding with some mainland European dates.

MC: I’ll be watching out for those releases. Thanks for taking the time with me today!

Mattingly Creter ’27 is a music and sound recording major.