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Mitchell Brown

incidentals for a cozy implosion

About Me

b. 1976, los angeles. analog synths, magnetic tape/loops, electric organ, amplified objects, contact microphones, percussion, drumset, found objects, didgeridoo, toys, acoustic spaces, field recordings, analog/digital signal processing, improvisation within premeditated sound fields of meditation, etc... sounds are made daily, alone or with dear friends, at home or in and out of town. full support is given to the thought that folk music is organized sound made by the people for the people, sans the need to be marketed. it can involve ideas passed around within a community. it can involve new or old modes of thinking about how to make or play any instrument. it can create new contexts for these musics to exist. it doesn't need to leave the house. it doesn't need to be recorded. it doesn't all sound like joan baez. ...more brown sound here

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/23/2006
Band Website: melonexpander.com
Band Members: past and present collaborators and groups: joseph hammer, rick potts, joe potts, ezra buchla, petra haden, william leavitt, tom recchion, albert ortega, damian bisciglia, john wiese, kevin shields, barry conley, rick & jackie stewart, loachfillet, j mitchell simon, lionel marchetti, jerome noetinger, johannes bergmark, leticia castaneda, alina khachatorian, ustad ken lee, jeremy drake, magic chefs, anavan, points of friction, brain sucking peanunanners, seed pod pals, martian mellows, paramecial wedding, aralina ping, klaxon hooves, mizzly, moon traffic controllers, erotic boulders, psicologicos tramas, floating muhummara, almost invisible millionice, highland park thursday evening gentleman's society circuit bending marching band and ladies' auxiliary, sonic arts onion, gasp, suffering luna, los cincos/syncopation, professor cantaloupe, others.
Influences: nature, insects, developmentally disabled children, dreams, feverdreams, paramnesia, sleep, sleep deprivation, fasting, vegetables, meditation, butoh, john c. lilly, henry jacobs, joseph hammer, roland kayn, jordan belson, jean painleve, kenyan taraab, afro-latin rhythms, moondog, mwandishi, psilocybin, astroboy, gumby, herculoids, ethnomusicology class on my turntable
Sounds Like: ...suppose i was unusually abrasive that evening... and if memory serves, i was ill & loaded on narcotic elderberry syrup.
Record Label: melon expander, audiobot, emr, helicopter, ngwtt
Type of Label: Indie