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chiasma

About Me

Chiasma is an ever-changing yet mostly stable noise-based collective currently residing in Texas. We have a wide variety of sounds and influences. Chiasma is a more realized continuation of the Shocktrauma project began by Tyler, JD, Chris Freed, and a few other friends while living in Kansas in the mid-to-late nineties. Phases of various sounds have come and gone, yet core elements have remained persistent. Sometime in mid-2004, JD and Tyler decided to attempt to house many different sounding elements of noise-based and experimental music in one name and begin to steer this ship with more intention.

We strive to envelop the metaphorical and literal connotations of the chiasma into sound; to create a sonic experience of that incredible final moment in the process of pinching off and crossing over; to sense the warm caresses and harsh abrasions of overlapping; for simultaneous and spontaneous creation and exploration of music's effects on consciousness, through rigorous observation and experimental manipulations of sound and environment. Even though accidents happen, they really don't. We feel that all things connect, and the points of those connections is our point of creative contention.

We recorded a live set from October 2007 in Houston - you can stream and/or download a 30-minute excerpt from that show
here .
We currently haLve two CDs available : they were finshed in late 2006 and are called "the Absence of Chance" and "Vissurreal." The material on those discs was recorded from 2004-2006.
Please contact us if you'd like one. We also love trades.


Former (and perhaps future) collaborators include (but are not limited to):
kolby mckinney
chris dawson
jeremy sumrall
There are many more mp3s and further data available at the official site , even if is somewhat out-of-date at the moment. Like everything else, the site overhaul is an ongoing process and still in progress.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/10/2005
Band Website: http://chiasma.nilknarf.net
Band Members: jd and tyler franklin
Influences: experimental instruments, psychedelic weirdness everywhere, intensity, passion, Love, confusion, heartache, Nature, Life.
Sounds Like: a collaged sum of our influences plus an immeasurable dose of focused personal intentions in a given moment.
Record Label: diy

My Blog

Destiny is a Bird ...

... that will fly free for Your Sake.the new track is an excerpt from a longer piece, composed for a dear friend who experienced a profound and tragic loss earlier this year. it is an expression of sa...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:12:00 GMT

2008

With the calendar already striking February, I wanted to take a few minutes to thank everyone who showed us some Love in 2007. Though not as "busy" as former years, Chiasma is still as strong and weir...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:53:00 GMT

also . . .

. . . we will have a VERY special guest joining us for our new year's eve set at superhappyfunland.please attend if you are able!LOVE.
Posted by on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:04:00 GMT

: just because :

i just gotta say . . . . .relative to our number of friends and page views, i can't help but notice that this blog gets a fuckload of hits. and i've only posted 6 blogs in 2+ years (ok, techincally, t...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:21:00 GMT

November Update.

good evening, we are probably still chiasma. we don't know what the hell is going on and will never pretend we do. we sometimes don't make music and we don't not make noise, and we don't not do this o...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:27:00 GMT

End of February Update

hello, everyone.once again, this space has been neglected for too long. but there are sound reasons for this : tyler is now furthering his schooling, i have been busy working with :::kai/ros::: and Et...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:29:00 GMT

november update

hello,we will be playing at superhappyfunland on november 24, as part of the abstration art/music showcase. only our second show of 2006, this one will really be a lot of fun. we have something more b...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:59:00 GMT

may update

hey, how's it going...? cool.... yeah..... well, we're doing good. working on new things, recycling some older things.....you know how it is. trying to make the time to work is getting harder lately, ...
Posted by on Fri, 12 May 2006 23:57:00 GMT

chiasma video - collage - march 2006.

chiasma video collage - 2 0 0 6 0 3 1 9Videos by vMix Member: vooklah
Posted by on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:24:00 GMT

chiasma video - live @ superhappyfunland, halloween 2004.

chiasma - live @ superhappyfunland, halloween 2004.
Posted by on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:22:00 GMT