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About Me

Ripe For Shaking is a spoken-word project in which various noise collages, drones, free improvs, and even song-like thingees are paired with verse and prose.
Check out http://www.myspace.com/toddmichaelcox for more about my writing.
And thanks for visiting.
Todd

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Member Since: 5/15/2007
Band Members: Todd Cox: sounds and words
Influences: Writers Musicians Noisicians Nightmares Dreams Nothing Everything
Sounds Like: Noise and voice, of course.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

"Jonah Swain, Plain and Simple"

A section from my novel "A Rhapsody of Ghosts," accompanied by a piano-and-effects improv. Very moody, maybe even depressing, though the whole thing leads to a sense of possibility and hope, like the...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:35:00 GMT

"The Moon Don't Shine in Spite or Sorrow"

The original guitar-and-effects bed for this was an improv recorded as a celebration of being off a long run of night-work last year (I called it simply "Off Nights"). I came back to it recently and ...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:03:00 GMT

"I am the Animal"

This was a bit of good luck. I did the original musical bed as a stand-alone piece, never intending to add a voice to it. I wanted to take a simple run of chords and make them interesting simply by ...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:24:00 GMT