In this episode of Ear Expansion, LaMont Hamilton and guitarist-composer Brandon Ross dive into his expansive musical journey. Ross recounts his early experiences, including self-teaching on the guitar and absorbing his brother’s musical influence, as well as his father’s jazz and classical tastes. He also shares accounts of his first professional recording with Archie Shepp and reflects on formative collaborations with artists like Marion Brown, Leroy Jenkins, Butch Morris, and Henry Threadgill. Along the conversation, Ross speaks about collective listening, generative silence, vibrations, cymatics, chordophones, and composing as affective experiences. He cites For Living Lovers with Stomu Takeishi as an example of a telepathic duo while traversing topics such as his band Harriet Tubman, his research into blues processes in Mississippi, and his later sound-world projects (Pendulum, Phantom Station, Dark Matter Halo).