Video: State of Sound Sessions: regular.decision and Skylar Gudasz

State of Sound Sessions is a new series produced by NC State University Libraries that features recorded live performances of a diverse array of artists, captured by the Make Media team. Captured live in distanced settings and broadcast on the NC State University Libraries Twitch channel, State of Sound Sessions gives you the chance to see artists up close and engage with them in the live chat that happens during the broadcasts. State of Sound Sessions are virtual, free, and open to the public.

This week we bring you performances from Durham, NC's Skylar Gudasz and Raleigh, NC's regular.decision.

With her luminous voice and captivating songcraft, Skylar Gudasz has won the admiration of some of the most distinguished artists in music. In the past few years alone, the Durham, North Carolina-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist has shared stages with the likes of Ray Davies, Cat Power and Sharon Van Etten as part of the Big Star’s Third tribute concerts, opened for Television and toured from the US with Teenage Fanclub to Europe with the Mountain Goats, and appeared as a background vocalist on albums by Superchunk and Hiss Golden Messenger, making her TV debut with the latter on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Skylar released her latest album, Cinema, in April of 2020, recorded at April Base in Eau Claire, WI, and in secret studios across the lush forests of the rich NC music scene. Growing up with a musical family in rural Ashland, Virginia, Gudasz first found her affinity for music by learning to play flute at age five, and soon started writing songs of her own. She later taught herself to play piano and guitar, drawing inspiration from use of alternate tunings in developing her own distinct style. Although she spent time in folk and rock bands after heading to North Carolina for college (where she studied Acting and Creative Writing), Gudasz has continued to strike off on her own with her lushly textured, sculpted singular sound.   

regular.decision is Tim Mensa, an NC State Graduate, media maker, and excellent skateboarder. regular.decision's music is carefully crafted and throughtfully prodcued, and like most music that is made using those descriptors, defies categorization. Expect sincerity and humor, wistfulness and melody, beats and verses and choruses.