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Alloy Orchestra

About Me

ALLOY ORCHESTRA is a three man musical ensemble, writing and performing live accompaniment to classic silent films. Working with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects, they thrash and grind soulful music from unlikely sources.Performing at prestigious film festivals and cultural centers in the US and abroad (The Telluride Film Festival, The Louvre, Lincoln Center, The Academy of Motion Pictures, the National Gallery of Art and others), Alloy has helped revive some of the great masterpieces of the silent era.An unusual combination of found percussion and state-of-the-art electronics gives the Orchestra the ability to create any sound imaginable. Utilizing their famous "rack of junk" and electronic synthesizers, the group generates beautiful music in a spectacular variety of styles. They can conjure up a French symphony or a simple German bar band of the 20's. The group can make the audience think it is being attacked by tigers, contacted by radio signals from Mars or swept up in the Russian Revolution. ALLOYORCHESTRA.COM - for complete tour schedule, tons of photos of silent films, and more! You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

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Member Since: 03/10/2006
Band Website: alloyorchestra.com
Band Members: ROGER MILLER (synthesizer, percussion)KEN WINOKUR (director, junk percussion and clarinet)TERRY DONAHUE (junk percussion, accordion, musical saw, banjo)
Influences: Harry Partch, Bartok, Hendrix, Tom Waits, The Luvin Brothers, John Cage, Dziga Vertov, Josef von Sternberg
Sounds Like: The Berlin Philharmonic meets Godzilla. Einstezender Neubauten hooks up with Tom Waits. The sound of water dripping into a sink.
Record Label: Accurate
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Alloy Orchestra - Fall Tour 2007

Here's a list of Alloy's Fall tour dates:WORLD PREMIERE!October 4NYCNEW YORK FILM FESTIIVALUNDERWORLDTwo shows: 6:00 and 8:30http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htmlOctober 10 & 11Lincoln NebraskaMary R...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:38:00 GMT

2007 Tour schedule

February 7,8,9NY, NY - Wintergarden at the World Financial Center,Sponsored by WNYCBlackmail, Eagle, The General ALL SHOWS FREEFebruary 15 - 18Boston MA, ICA TheaterALLOY CELEBRATES THEIR 15TH ANNIVE...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:57:00 GMT

Tour dates

For current tour info go to our web page: www.alloyorchestra.com
Posted by on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:13:00 GMT

On Tour

Greetings! I thought it was finally time that Alloy join the real world and set up a MYspace page. Of course, in the real world we inhabit (the 1920's) myspace was a little more primative (computers...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:07:00 GMT