Member Since: 8/24/2007
Band Members: Bill Vollriede
Kevin Dally-Muenzmaier
Jamál Currie
Dan Schierl
Grant Richter
not entirely sure what everyone does, actually. but at some point, some of the people listed above are using some subset of the following: samplers, tape recorders, ipods, flugelhorns, zanilators , synths (modular, analog, digital, mechanical, imaginary. mostly SDIY), krackleboxes , euphoniums, laptops, police scanners, shortwave radios, valve trombones, tibetan bells, sandblasting equipment , video projectors, Wogglebug 3's , and other stuff.
Influences: musical touchpoints: faust, nurse with wound, the godz, cabaret voltaire, negativland, the haters, people like us, chrome, the fugs, christian markley, cromagnon, etc.
literary references: Burroughs/Gysin cutup technique and dream machine experimentation; The Principia Discordia; The Lesser Book of the Vishanti; Mackay's "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"; Frazer's "Golden Bough"; Helmholtz's "On the Sensations of Tone"; JG Ballard; Charles Schultz; David Ohle;Flann O'Brien...
visual art influences: surrealism, dada, futurism, Pop art, Time Based Visual Media, etc.
cinematic stuff: industrial training films, spaghetti westerns, nature documentaries, surveillance footage, old cartoons, "Primer", "Wax: or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees", "Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?" , "The Holy Mountain", "Videodrome".
Record Label: DYMO