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About Me

Nonnon & Lapsed in Montreal with surprise guests Subtitle and Bleubird:.. width="425" height="350" ..Me (guitar) with UBA (Ryan Moore on guitar, Joe Jensen on Tuba, Christian Asplund on piano/viola)Out now on Ad NoiseamStyle is something you look at, then ignore -- BeansI have found a variety of ways of making music (and I continue to look for others) in which sounds are free of a theory as to their relationships. I do not hear music before making it, my purpose being to hear as beautiful something I have not before heard (John Cage, 1985 p 238 Electronic and Experimental Music).Dave Madden’s (aka dj webern, non non, Chomsky at the Bit, Wasabe P) earliest memories have nothing to do with playing ball, or going to grandma’s, or riding a tricycle around Ogden: they involve pondering the oddity of the Magical Mystery Tour album art, playing a one-string guitar along with Paint it Black and trying to figure out what the hell some guy meant by I am the Lizard King -- thank heavens for hippy moms!After spending his teenage years obsessed with Bauhaus and Depeche Mode, Dave attended university to study sound engineering/jazz guitar. He soon realized that being behind the console isn’t where he wanted to be so, on a whim, he switched to composition and started writing all the weird academic music that chases everyone out of Humanities 101 -- focusing on computer assisted composition and, specifically, improvisation. He uses a laptop and electronics (such a cute term) to perform and DJ all over the world, from Montreal to Chico, California, in universities, museums and ghetto coffee shops, preferring the types of crowds who enjoy John Cage back to back with Massive Attack and his own realtime manipulation of both.Dave has worked for video game companies, film, television and all other manner of music-as-commodity companies. Now post-grad school, Dave spends his time still in front of a console, though listening to his own music, comprised of field recordings, found sounds and feedback. He is currently finishing up 1) a collection of white label remixes that he will probably leave on park benches, as he cant afford a team of lawyers to clear the samples 2) an album with post-hop act Lapsed due Spring 2007. He continues to DJ and perform (most recently as 1/2 of the live version of Lapsed) and also writes about and reviews music for SplendidMagazine.com and SLUG Magazine.Please note: I DON’T WANT TO BUY YOUR "BEATS"!!!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/22/2003
Band Website: myspace.com/nonnon
Band Members: dj webern aka Dave Madden aka Chomsky at the Bit aka geli raubal aka nonnon
Influences: I summed this up herehttp://www.splendidmagazine.com/departments/tdlt/tdlt110 804.htmlbut this is the record that inspired everything that I do:And this stuff too: + + + + + + + + + + +I'm also excited about visual artists such as Kenzo Minami, John John Jesse, Matthew Barney, Michel Gondry, Sas Christian, Daniel Clowes et cetera
Sounds Like: Mouse on Mars meets Kid 606 meets photek meets John Cage meets Toru Takemitsu meets N.W.A. meets George Crumb meets Skinny Puppy
Record Label: Mulatta, Ad Noiseam, Cleopatra, Pre Flood
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Chris Corsanos The Young Cricketer on vinyl...and Amazon

This re-release is out for two months (previously only a CD-R that I bugged the artist and a label about forever, now on vinyl) and I foolishly forgot to check Amazon for it (the last place I ...
Posted by nonnon on Thu, 29 May 2008 07:57:00 PST

radiohead remix contest

Hi, I don’t want to work a day job anymore. Come vote for me (if you are well pleased) so Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood can sweep me away from all this. . ...
Posted by nonnon on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:11:00 PST

CD Reviews March

Evangelista Hello, Voyager Constellation Street: 3.11 Evanvelista = (literally) Carla Bozulich + Godspeed You! Black Emperor Hello, Voyager is not some cliché of healing, yet there is a sense o...
Posted by nonnon on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:07:00 PST

Bowed cymbals (old crap_)

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Posted by nonnon on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:57:00 PST

Interview: Lapsed + nonnon in SL City Weekly

Music | From Rags to Glitches: SLC experimental duo Lapsed + Nonnon don't forget their pop roots By Ryan Bradford Posted 02/07/2008 ..> ..> ..>..> Jason Stevens and Dave Madden, the duo known as La...
Posted by nonnon on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:08:00 PST

Liars Interview for In Utah This Week

Dave Madden..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Liars Interview Pants on Fire 1-18-08 While interviewing Yeah Yeah Yeahs in 2002, I asked the old "what are...
Posted by nonnon on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:36:00 PST

Top albums of 2007

In alphabetical order. And this stupid blog always formats weird ("collaboriti" is supposed to read "collaborations..") Battles Mirrored..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microso...
Posted by nonnon on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:06:00 PST

(Salt Lake) City Weekly review of The Death of Convenience

Fight Club soundtrack and all Dust Brothers production is something I've mentally referenced for years as far as organic-disparate (disparation?) albums go. "Is it as messy yet wrangled as Paul'...
Posted by nonnon on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:58:00 PST

CD Reviews for November

Busdriver..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> RoadKillOvercoat Epitaph Street: 1.07 Busdriver = Subtitle + Subtle Regan Farquhar aka Busdriver, ..:namespace...
Posted by nonnon on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:11:00 PST

Ellen Fullman and the Long Stringed Instrument

New from http://cut.fm cut 022Ellen Fullman + Sean Meehan Ellen Fullman // long string instrumentSean Meehan // snare drum with cymbals Here is some info on Ellen Fullman Ellen Fullman has been dev...
Posted by nonnon on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:20:00 PST