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DROWNING THE VIRGIN SILENCE

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About Me

Wednesday, Sept. 5thDrowning the Virgin Silence explores the textural and tonal aspects of minimalism, electro-acoustics, drone, sound collage, ambient, and post-industrial noise through the use and misuse of magnetic tape splicing, tape delay, manipulated field recordings, and controlled feedback incorporated with a heightened visual aesthetic. It is the experimental project of visual artist and sound designer Richard Vergez.Discography: Tone, 2007 (70 copies) *available now at
Aquarius Records

The Wild Sounds EP, 2006 (10 copies, available only at Noise.Water.Meat.)With the Choir of Dead Dahlias, 2006 (23 copies) *out of printBetween Two Sounds (CD/DVD), 2005 (15 copies) *out of printA Swarm of Sleepwalking Women, 2005 (20 copies) *out of printCarefully Constructed Lies, 2005 (13 copies) *out of print

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/9/2005
Band Members: Richard Vergez: prepared tapes, found percussion, piano, knife, electric organ, exhumed vinyl, guitar, field recordings.The tape machines play themselves. Photography by Phaedra.
Influences: Minimalism, Dada, :zoviet*france, Nurse With Wound, Deathprod, Swans, Musique Concrète, Daphne Oram, Organum, Andrew Chalk, Alan Splet, Steve Reich, Jodorowsky, Hieronymus Bosch, Terry Riley, David Lynch, Christian Marclay, Xenakis, Fennesz, John Zorn(and anything Tzadik), Constellation records, early Tangerine Dream, Rapoon, Death in June, Boyd Rice, Faust, Mirror, misanthropy, Fluxus, New Zealand drone(Dead C, Thela, Surface of the Earth, Dean Roberts), Brian Eno, White Noise(the band and the phenomenon), Throbbing Gristle, Slowdive, Mike Patton, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, sunnO))), Jandek, Glenn Branca, This Heat, F.G. Lorca, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Dr. Courtney, Z'ev, Aphex Twin, Phil Spector, photo montage, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Saville, Vaughan Oliver, Tuxedomoon.
Sounds Like: :zoviet*france, Deathprod, Hafler Trio, Nurse With Wound, Mirror, Dead Voices on Air, Lustmord, Stars of the Lid, Labradford, Troum, Birchville Cat Motel, James Plotkin, Main....snowflakes derailing trains, delicacy, deconstruction.
Record Label: Goat Eater
Type of Label: Indie