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Amos

somasen

About Me

Maker of electronic music; service tech for Moog Music Inc; mechatronics student.

synths/production/bandleader of pioneering industrial/improv/cybernoise band "Veterans of Future Wars" 1998-2003. Currently working on new material with VFW guitarist Drew Hughes.

UPDATE: the Veterans of Future Wars are back as of 2006. Currently working on a new album tentatively entitled "Temple of the Screaming Electron" (or "The Memorial Benefit Debut"). Click the banner below to visit our profile!

My Interests

Electronics, music, electronic music, musical electrons...
Trance dancing and shamanism
Autonomous art-creating robots
Novel and unusual musical instruments
'pataphysics
much else

I'd like to meet:


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Music:



This profile was edited with an X-Acto knife and lots of Wite-Out.

Movies:

Barton Fink, Metropolis, Blade Runner, the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Uzumaki, Videodrome, Motorama, everything featured on MST3000

Television:

is evil.

My Blog

Somasen live at the planetarium

I had a very nice experience this last weekend; got to improvise some live ambient/downtempo strangeness inside a planetarium, with the full galactic-fly-through star show going on the dome.  Tot...
Posted by Amos on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:04:00 PST

yummy fun beat droning acid

Two x0xb0x synthesizers and a Moog Little Phatty, into a computer running Audiomulch and the Microtonic for drums.  Late night jammin' with no form or function.  Dig it![all of the above, in...
Posted by Amos on Thu, 29 May 2008 09:57:00 PST

Somasen tracks on Live.fm

I have uploaded my album "A Journey Through Configurational Space" to live.fm!Check it out, stream me into your machine while you work or play... Somasen  a journey through conf...
Posted by Amos on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:17:00 PST

rum-induced synth/drum jam, Dec 14th

So school is out for the semester, and I decided to celebrate my first homework-free weekend with a bottle of Sailor Jerry's rum, and Ableton Live.  This is a little groove I whipped up using the...
Posted by Amos on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:11:00 PST

new live set - A Journey Through Configurational Space

This is a live, improvised exploration... An experiment in maxi-minimal beats and drones, created in my favorite audio environment, Audiomulch.The set is 45 minutes, edited down from the original 90-m...
Posted by Amos on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:46:00 PST

28-minute live improvisation in Audiomulch

This is a long excerpt from an even longer live improv set created in Audiomulch. The sound-making engine was being constructed live while the recording was running - have a listen and see where it go...
Posted by Amos on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:30:00 PST

Musical scrap book: 10/04/07

I make a lot of musical snippets and usually don't "finish" them.  I've been thinking for a while that I should post 'em up here once in a while for people to listen to if they want.  So, he...
Posted by Amos on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:18:00 PST