Archive for October, 2007

ASMUS TIETCHENS
Born 1947. Busy in electronic music and musique concr?te since 1965. First LP release 1980. Since then more than 30 releases. After a brief “pop” period (1980 - 83) I became more + more involved in the industrial movement. From the 90s on I concentrated on abstract noise music. Numerous collabs (David Myers, Achim […]

ADAM SONDERBERG
Adam Sonderberg (b. 1978) is a composer working predominantly with concrete-based compositions utilizing the computer as a discrete processing and assembly tool. His selected discography includes over a dozen releases, both solo and ensemble work, published by a number of different labels including: Absurd, Cathnor, Crouton, Tonschacht, Entr’acte, Type, Con-V, and Longbox Recordings.
Co-director, with […]

KEVIN SHEA
Kevin Shea (nyc) drums on: Swirlies Cats of the Wild - Volume Two (for 14 seconds); The Love of Everything FriENDS EP (almost 4 songs); Monitor Recordâs Membranaphonics (solo track); Richmond County Archives Recordâs 30 Minutes On the World Map (as Sexy Thoughts); Tyondai Braxton’s Rise Rise Rise; both Storm & Stress records on […]

JIM SCHOENECKER
Jim Schoenecker creates audio and video works using unconventional approaches and alternative methods of synthesis. The results are an exploration of extreme frequencies that play with amplitude, rhythm and texture.
Jim is a member of Collections of Colonies of Bees and Mouths (with Jon Mueller). He has performed in the US as well as […]

CHRIS ROSENAU
Normally he doesn’t have a beard, although once in the early 1990’s he saw the band Melvins in Madison, WI and Joe Preston had a kind of reverse mohawk goatee. . .like a regular goatee except with the middle of the chin shaved so what was on his face was tantamount to two thick […]

HAL RAMMEL
Hal Rammel has been designing and building musical instruments since 1976. As a composer and improviser based in southeastern Wisconsin he performs in the groups Audiotrope (with Steve Nelson-Raney and Thomas Gaudynski), Van’s Peppy Syncopators (with Terri Kapsalis and John Corbett), Whole or by the Slice (with Lou Mallozzi), and Raccoons (with Jon Mueller […]

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BHOB RAINEY
Rainey’s saxophone playing eschews standard techniques; in fact, it rarely involves what have become common extended techniques. Yet, his sounds have a peculiar directness, integrated into a music that is at once meditative and disquieting. The saxophone is forgotten as one becomes immersed in pure tones, metallic chords, palpable breath, and always that primal […]

JON MUELLER
Jon Mueller has been an active drummer and percussionist since the mid-80s. Whether utilizing bombastic minimalism, dense interplay, or electroacoustic practices, his approach focuses on a physical dialog between situation and material. He has been featured on numerous recordings and has performed throughout the U.S., Japan, and Europe.
He has performed/recorded with: Aranos, Keith Berry, […]

LIONEL MARCHETTI
“Lionel Marchetti was born in France in 1967. His interest in music resides in the qualities of sound. He is one of a handful of artists who in the mid-to-late 1990s took electroacoustic music out of academic studios and into the free improvisation ring. A scholar who worked at the CFMI (Lyon) and GRM […]