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mika pontecorvo (mikasf)

About Me

Improvisor, composer. Sonic process architect, Max/MSP programmer, occasional guitar molester. ...guitars, flute, voice, laptop, misc. electronics, things not nailed down, things nailed down...
Began improvising with non-standard techniques and electronic processing of the guitar at an early age.. Later spent time developing his live electronics work primarily on saxophone. Studied composition under Vladimir Ussachevsky in the 1980s. Concentrated on musique concrète and electronic music with tape and live instrunents, algorithmic and probablistic composition as well.
Currently playing in bands Theory Garden and Cartoon Justice , with the Dark Circus Radio project .
All with a diverse vocabulary of sounds and modes of expression crossing genre boundries and common categories - dark psychedelic rock, alt.folk/punk , funk, world fusion, abstract electronic, noise, ambient, free improv...drawing on Asian Tribal/Shamanic traditions, African popular music, Subshaharan African, Arabic and Gypsy elements, RnB, Blues, psychedelic, and funk of the 60s and 70s, free and modal jazz/improv of the 60s/70s, industrial textures, punk ethos, make it all come together in the here and now in some very unexpected ways.
blind man, good dancer...

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Music:

Member Since: 01/10/2007
Band Members: Collaborators currently include: Murias, Acriane Jesse Pontecorvo, Neal Elzenga, Becky Aur, and many others past, present and future
Influences: the range of sensory stimulation available from birth on.
Sounds Like: emergent sensory patterns.
Record Label: Unsigned

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