Member Since: 10/12/2006
Band Website: mousetrapreplica.com
Band Members: Ryan McRobb Composer, arranger, guitars, MIDI guitar, loops, laptop, electronics, mandolin, percussion
Alice Palermo live painting and drawing
In the past mousetrapreplica has also featured:
Nella Combe Live Painting, Chimes, Amplified Canvas
Lucas Millar Guitar, Chimes
Andrew Michelle Classical Guitar, Bass guitar, Chimes
Nick Schultz Percussion, guitar, trumpet, chimes
David O'Brien Keys, Chimes
Shane McRobb Chimes, Amp
Joel Kent Chimes
Influences: Arvo Part, Lhasa, The Necks, David Shea, Satan, Bill Hicks, Borat, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Twelve Tone Diamonds, Frank Zappa, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Toru Takemitsu, Melbourne, Bendigo, John Zorn, Jamie Saft, Derek Bailey, Death, all examples of the feline species, Oliver Mann, Karen Heath, Stephen Magnusson, Satan, Cheese Excursion, Alan Browne, mum, Sigur Ros, of, or pertaining to..., Tomas Fitzgerald, Jim Hall, Bill Frisell, Thelonious Monk, John Abercrombie, Julian Bream, Otomo Yoshihide, Merzbow, Boards of Canada, Nick Martyn, TA KE TI NA, Tania Bosak, Adrian Belew, B.B, King, Robert Johnson, R.A.T.M., Atari Teenage Riot, pretty much all Digital Hardcore Recordings releases up until 2000, Danny Fischer, John Coltrane, Larz Ioha, Satan, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Secret Chiefs 3, Mr. Bungle, Julien Wilson, Anthony Pateras, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Hussar, Swift Treweeke, Karl Persson, Sunn O)))))))), Lawrence Folvig, Justin Ashworth, Steve Smart, Sean M. Whelan, Thomas Harry Dunstan, Hector Villa-Lobos, Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, deftones, Cheese Excursion, Naked City, Masada, Messaien, Schoenberg, Debussy, Stravinsky, Ravel, Bomb 20, Shizuo, GY!BE, Dilinger Escape Plan, Fantomas, Faith No More, Nirvana, Alice Coltrane, Public Enemy, Dead Can Dance, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, pat Metheny, John Scofield, MedeskiMartin & Wood, Morton Feldman, The Boredoms, Squarepusher, Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, DJ Shadow, Sonic Youth, Dimitri Shostakovich, Charles Mingus, John-Lee Hooker, TOOL, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Alison Wedding, Elana Stone, Michelle Nicole, Kurt Elling, Laurindo Almeida, Lucas Millar, Roberto Baden-Powell, Peter Gleeson and his Spontaneous Choir project, Sun Ra, John McLaughlin, Dave Douglas, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, J.S. Bach, The Muppets, The Fraggles, The Wiggles, Paul Williamson Hammond Combo, Mark Murphy, qua, fourtet, Nic Endo, Sesame Street, Danny Elfman, Paul Bley, Plato, Euripides, Homer, Ron Gorow, Earle Brown, Robert Fripp, King Crimson, Trey Spruance, things that go bump in the night, True Live, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Jurassic 5, Tony Buck, the air just before a thunder storm, melbourne whilst covered in smoke, Steve Reich, Eluvium, Fennesz, Happy Apple, The Bad Plus, Wes Montgomery, Captain Beefheart, Beethoven, The Old Crown in Bendigo before it got real shit, Pavement, Sebadoh, Sentridoh, Smashing Pumpkins, Dirty 3, Bob Brozman, James Muller, James Wilson, Slava Grigoryan, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Taverner, Fred Hersch, Henryk Gorecki, Einsturzende Neubauten, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Penderecki before he got shit, Portishead, Lenny Breau, Stan Getz, Leadbelly, Spiderbait, Swans, Charles Ives, Keiji Heino, KoRn, Janes Addicton, Oombah, Sonny Rollins, Clumpy Bogg, Colonel Vipers Whipstick Band, Blackthorn Stick, Motorhead, The Birthday Party, The Smiths, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Anal Cunt, Django Reinhardt, Nino Rota, Bernard Hermann, Fellini, Spike Jones, Monty Python, Black Adder, David Lynch, Zoltan Kodaly, Bela Bartok, Farmers Market, the M o B, Neil Murray, very small people, the scrumptious ladies of the Caravan of Love, Kronos Quartet, The Pixies, Jan Garbarek, William Burroughs, H.R. Giger, Mark Ryden, Gottfried Helnwein, Fred Frith, Bjork, Colleen, Tortoise, Tom Fryer, Stanley Kubrick, Ennio Morricone, Mike Patton, Rob Anderson, kittens, Matthew Barney, Satan, Jesus, KMFDM, Gyorgi Ligeti, James Brown, Herbie Hancock, Son House, Albert Lee, Jerry Douglas, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Aurora's, Sydney Road, Brunswick St. pre 2006, the Make it Up Club, Bjork, Astor Piazzolla, most of the members of the Von Trapp Family singers, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan, Eddie Harris, pi, Toe to Toe, Dead Kennedys, MC5, Bad Brains, Peter Sculthorpe, Adam Simmons and his Toy Band, Misty Toilet Bowl, Nella Combe, Susan van der Ham, Rimsky-Korsakov, Noam Chomsky, Ayn Rand, Bertrand Russell, Hakim Bey, Mark Twain, monkeys of all shapes and sizes, The Mars Volta, Alex North, Alban Berg, Edgard Varese, Mozart, Solfege, Shinichi Suzuki, Robin Fox, Anthony Pateras, Archie Roach, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, AC/DC, Ani DiFranco, Anthony Braxton, Alec Empire, Beck, Bill Laswell, Beth Gibbons, Augie March, Art of Fighting, Buckethead, Chris Smither, Jonathon Bepler, frogs, Bela Fleck, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Slayer, The GeloBar on Lygon St., waking up and not being able to feel a particular part of my body, Erik Griswold, Vanessa Tomlinson, California Guitar Trio, Eric Mongrain,
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The above pics are from an improvised performance at Bar Open as part of the Make It Up Club, July 10. Photo's by Justin Ashworth.