After two decades of successfully pursuing simple truths in popular music, Matt Pond has recently begun to take on projects that stretch beyond the conventional trajectory of independent rock and roll. Other projects explore artist relationships over mediums and miles, where the aural meets the visual and beyond. He currently resides in Kingston, New York, and pays strict attention to the arc of every season. Thirteen albums, countless singles and EPs — and, yet, there’s no end to the search. Chris Hansen graduated from the Mannes School of Music and began his career as a manager and engineer at the legendary Bearsville Studios, near Woodstock, New York. He continues a long collaboration with Matt as a multi-instrumentalist and co-producer of numerous Matt Pond PA albums and EPs. He has scored and continues to compose music for film, television and mostly, himself. Together, they continue to write in the living room, stomping on the floor with the dogs running wild; a pack of domesticated coyotes streaking past the amps, through the kitchen, the back porch, into the yard, their own cedar-fenced kingdom.