Member Since: 1/10/2007
Band Website: abjectleader.org
Band Members: Joel Stern and friends
Influences:
MUSIC
Moondog
Vietnamese Highland Trance
Giacinto Scelsi
Buell Kazee
Skip James
Shona Mbira music
Morton Feldman
Arthur Russell
Angus Maclise
Hugh Metcalfe
Bohman Brothers
Michel Chion
FILM
Paul Sharits
Ben Russell
Malcolm Le Grice
Michael Haneke
Larry Jordan
Stan Vanderbeek
John Smith
Anthony McCall
Sally Golding
Pia Borg
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill
Roger Deutsch
Ken Jacobs
Toshio Matsumoto
Fernando Arrabal
Tony Conrad
Kurt Kren
LITERATURE/POETRY
Bob Cobbing
Thomas Bernhard
Javier Marias
Ira Cohen
Douglas Kahn
Jorge Luis Borges
Italo Calvino
George Perec
Sounds Like: “distant dogs, birds, footsteps and the beating air. A clicking follows, a toy piano or music box seems to crank the birds and layers into greater intensity, the humming and hissing reflective of a radioactive naturestrip, the sound of hissing lawn, a wall of sound builds itself around all this like a hedgerow of thorns. Stern's violin atonally overtones its way through the hedge like an unhinged door of cutting shears. The overall volume subsides with haunted gut-string scrapings. Traffic noise wells up in a blurred manner. A girl's voice sings in the wet streets, a car door slams, sonar atmosphere ebbs and flows. Stern's trumpet bugle is attacked with ray gun as mute - is this Armageddon after the rain?†- Anonymous review
Record Label: naturestrip/halftheory/bdtd
Type of Label: Major