Music:
Member Since: 27/10/2005
Band Website: www.ceethree.us
Band Members: Current Arkestra Players:
MikeR:Musician, webmaster, gear-master, knob twiddler, vision thing, sustaining visioneer
Goon Wan:Musician, fellow traveler, boundary pusher, C3 videographer, web hosting, musicology, ethics
Scrufficus:Musician, new age keyboard artist, promoter of the vision, spokesman for the light
Jody:Musician, drums, percussion, tom toms, flying sticks, transitions, permutations
Cecil X. Nixxon:Musician, flute, slide whistle, pocket trumpet, wind controller, synthesizer, devices, circuits, computers, comissary
Phil:Musician, composer/guitarist, lights master, long-distance inspiration, the most humble greatest virtuoso, huge grins, hugs
Dave:Master Geek and Technician (actually an alien vamping on this human thing.), bon vivant, mystery man
Bob/Rob:Musician, songwriter, humorist, singer, painter, trailblazer, trickster, huckster, holy man
Current Core Cast:
FD:Improv drama hostess, artist, photographer, C3 mailing list and newsletter, myspace dancer, encouragement, lovely smiles and hugs, manager of centering tools and techniques
Scott Wilson:Filmmaker, videographer. C3 Documentarian.
Influences: MikeR sez:
If I throw out a name, it doesn't necessarily mean I've listened to a lot of that artist. It does mean what I've heard has changed the color of my skin, so to speak, and affected my sensibilities in some important way.
Sun Ra, obviously. Though maybe not obviously, cuz Sun Ra didn't indulge in pure improv like we do. He wrote pieces, scored for a small orchestra, etc. But hey, the guy was from outer space!
Frank Zappa, especially for his intelligence and humor. And of course, because he cut through all forms of bullshit to express the (sometimes not very pretty) underbelly of human nature. And he expressed it musically.
R. Crumb, for the same reasons as Zappa. He managed to express his vision in color forms that linger in our psychedelic imaginations, which, of course, affect all of our expressions, even music.
Brian Eno, for his highly intelligent sense of proportion, the ease with which he cuts across musical genres, his gentle promotion of minimalism in music, his sheer lyricism with not a trace of sentamentalism.
Aldous Huxley
Stewart Brand
Kevin Kelly
Bucky Fuller
Karl Pribram
Terence McKenna
Rupert Sheldrake
Alexander Shulgin
and many more ...
Goon wan sez:
Ansel Adams
Harry Calahan
Man Ray
David Lynch
Edward Weston
Cecil Nixxon sez:
Inspiration
The innocent eye cast openly to the sky.
3am Christmas morning, no one's awake yet.
Granola snack break on the precipice of a giant, virgin cavern.
Life in the universe as a constant, not merely an accident.
A sense of hope that can't quite be expressed in words, let alone sustained by faith.
Influences All the prophets, and all the prophets yet to come, all the jokers, all the children. Always remember that our children's children's children's children will be genetically foreign to our present bodies and therefore time travel will be hazardous.
Sounds Like:
The C3 Psychoto-electro Arkestra is a movable feast of entertainers. While the core group provides consistency on which a quarterly performance can be assured, each performance features one or more guest artists.
The C3 Psychoto-electro Arkestra does not sound like itself.
Record Label: Subversal Records
