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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 […]

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 […]

RETO MÄDER
Reto Mäder works as RM74 at the periphery of electro-acoustic music and noise with a weakness for atonal boxhauling and melancholy melodies. The pieces of Mäder’s zig-zagging studies of aleatoric electro-acoustics includes a broad spectrum of sound sources like piano, organ, guitar, amp, harp, analogue and digital electronics, computer and field recordings. This resulted […]

SCOTT KAWCZYNSKI
Scott Kawczynski has designed, printed, and helped assemble many of the early Crouton releases. He has traveled the world studying and analyzing design and is now based in New York where he works - constantly. His work is not only limited to print, web and interactive projects; he has also contributed 40 photographs to […]

JOHN KANNENBERG
Sound and visual artist John Kannenberg (b.1969) received his BFA with a concentration in drawing and painting in 1993, and has been performing and writing music for over fifteen years. In 1999, John began work as a solo sound artist using manipulated field recordings as the foundation for loop-based generative electronic pieces. While his […]