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About Me

I don't know if I'm a band as much as I'm a stranger -- just like you -- who can't find enough different mediums to express herself. As "I'm into photography" is a nearly ubiquitous interest listed on MySpace profiles, I hesitate to even mention it. But, I'm into photography. I make exposures on silver halide film, and I make prints on silver gelatin fiber-based paper. Yes, that means old-fashioned (non-C41) film, a dark room w/red light and trays of hand-mixed, temperature-regulated, chemicals. My style is mostly naturalistic, available-light photography. I shoot with fast primes, and I often work with film speeds of ISO 1600, or even 3200. And sometimes I push that. Film grain and high contrast are part of my aesthetic. Also, I believe deeply in the maxim of Robert Capa: "If your images aren't good enough, you're not close enough."
As to music, I have never done a second take; I'm as happy when the songs fall apart as when they come together. I'm interested in the organic process, the flow, the touching upon something primeval, visceral. And I'm more day dreamer, charlatan, than musician... an approach closer to seduction than virtue.
I used an old cassette-based multi-tracker with random effects and things-nearly-on-fire looped through the aux bus. Much of the equipment is cheapo, old-school stuff from garage sales, pawn shops and trash bins. Same for the instruments.
I was a different person back, many, many years ago, when I was making these recordings... you are listening, as it were, to old photographs and broken things, half-remembered.

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Music:

Member Since: 2/4/2008
Band Members: Me. For better -- but mostly for worse, I'm sure -- I play all instruments and make all noises. No one else is present in the room as I play, record, mix down, etc.
Influences: I have always collected music. I used to own many hundreds of albums on good, dusty vinyl. It was love. But it was also a journey for a certain... sound? feeling? I don't know.But I never found it. Never exactly. So I began to cobble together my own instruments and madness; whatever I thought I could use to make this thing of sound and feeling that I was after.

Can I admit to another influence? A quote: "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anais Nin
Record Label: Unsigned

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