Member Since: 8/8/2007
Band Website: balancepointacoustics.com
Band Members: Damon Smith - solo double bass, 7 string electric upright bass, laptop (lloopp) works on paper and maybe acoustic bass guitar &/or 'cello
Influences: Gino Robair, Lisle Ellis, Cy Twombly, Thomas Bernhard, Marco Eneidi, Joseph Beuys, Dannie Richmond, Peter Kowald, Richard Serra, Robert Ryman, Brice Marden, Peter Brotzmann, Gunter Christmann, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Red Mitchell, Morton Feldman, Fred Hopkins, Ingeborg Bachmann, Xenakis, Malichai Favors, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, minutemen, Joe Morris, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Lehn, Barry Guy, Glenn Speaman, J.S. Bach, Steve Lacy, Kevin Jones, Sol Lewitt, John Lindberg, Fred Van Hove, Anselm Kiefer, Octavio Paz, Wilbert de Joode, Malevich, Knut Hamsun, Donald Robinson, Gabriel Orozco, Joelle Leandre, Voice Crack, Rebbeca Horn, Paul Celan, Barre Phillips, Tacita Dean, Chris Burden, Antoni Tapies, Jim Garrison, Frank Wright, , Spirit, Joe McPhee, Iancu Dumitrescu, Sacchrinne Trust, Hermann Nitsch, George Cremaschi, Bruce Conner, Agnes Martin, Richard Tuttle, Harry Miller, George Brecht, Johnny Dyani, Birgit Ulher, Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, Marilyn Crispell, Lucio Fontana, Mark Dresser, Lee Bontecou, Jannis Kounellis, Roger Turner, Fred Anderson, Wadada Leo Smith, Gino Robair, Richard Meier (collage more than architechture), Fernado Grillo, fIREHOSE, Roy Lichtenstein, Torsten Mueller, Le Roi Jones, Kidd Jordan, Julio Estrada, George Lewis Kurt Schwitters, Paul Rutherford, Anders Jormin, Eva Hesse, Phil Minton, Ludwig Streicher, Franz Simandl, Stefano Scodanibbio, Paul Lovens, Reggie Workman, Giovanni Anselmo, Sirone, Bertram Turetzky, Gunther Forg, George Herms, Giancinto Scelsi, Bjorn Ianke, Polwechsel, Gunter Brus, Arild Andersen, Ghada Amer, Sun Ra, Nam June Paik, Hans Reichel, Hermann Hemholz, David Holland, Gary Peacock, Rudiger Carl Alan Sliva, Hans Schnieder, Eva Hesse, Kent Carter, Harrison Bankhead, Jmmy Lyons, Schonberg, Barnett Newman, Richard Long, Wolfgang Fuchs, Rauschenberg, Radu Malfatti, Franco Petrrachi, Arnulf Rainer, Georg Grawe, William Parker.
Sounds Like: Improvised music and visual art in the same creative outburst.
Record Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Type of Label: Indie