FRAUD

In the late twentieth century, Charles Ardinger bought a digital effects processor from departing roommates Sam and June Phetish for fifty dollars. Because he'd just gotten some campaign literature in the mail, he decided to label his sound project FRAUD. Since then he has developed a philosophy based on the name; namely, the belief that the artist occupies a somehow more elevated position than the audience constitutes a fraud--one which Ardinger intends to avoid.