Skincage is a one-man noise/ambient/looping project in studio and live incarnations. I've been working as Skincage for a little over 12 years, in various locations. If you're a stranger and I've sent an add request, I'm not spamming you; myspace is full of bands like that and i have no intention of joining that roster. I just have a hunch you might like what I do and I'm inviting you to listen. If you got this far, thank you for your time.
Project History:
I started with a borrowed 4 track and put out some tapes. Eventually got into software and put out a CD called "Axon" in 2000. It was picked up by Malignant Records and re-released on an imprint of that label called Antibody. It was via their mail order service that Axon made it to ears across the world, and I am glad of that. Things dwindled after that, but that's how things fell. No blame.
Some reviews:
"Be warned, there is deep horror in this CD but there is also great beauty. For about 72 minutes, Jon opens up his world, his nightmares and his heart onto one of the most powerful things I have heard in a long time. It bleeds with emotion without having a sung word anywhere, it moves and pulses without the need for a cliche drum machine beat, it challenges security and by the last song I am in tears.."
-Jon Whitney, Brainwashed.com ("referencing Axon")
"...The sound on Things Fall apart is pretty overwhelming and powerful. It grabs your full attention when you listen to it with headphones. It is most suitable for the late hours in a weekend, when your mind is at ease and receptive for it. Highlight is the track ‘Calling Home’, which is a totally deranged sort of lovesong. Things Fall Apart is impressive isolationist ambient. For fans of the music of Jim O’Rourke, Lull, KK Null and The Law-Rah Collective."
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-Gothtronic.com
In addition to a film score for Overlord Films' "The Resurrectionist" I've also completed a second full-length recording called "Things Fall Apart." Like "Axon" it aims to tell stories with sound using a variety of materials from answering machine tapes to prepared strings and radio interference. There are 12 tracks with themes ranging from personal loss to meditations on historical disasters. Thanks to you, the initial run of 50 CDRs sold out and the release has been picked up by Spectre, with additional distribution by Soleilmoon and Ant-Zen.
These Days:
People have called what I do everything from "dark ambient" to "cinematic isolationism," whatever that means! I just call it "skincage." My recordings are typically the result of meticulous studio work but when I play live I explore the moment with whatever hardware and chance materials I can use. My live approach usually revolves around the creation and mutation of loops because it's a good way to explore things from different perspectives. Garbage becomes instruments, noise becomes my box of crayons. I often find myself to be verbally impaired, so music is how I get things across. Hope you dig what you hear, thanks for listening. (p.s. Headphones if you've got 'em.)
I enjoy collaboration, be it long distance exquisite corpse noise games or scoring other people's films. If you're game, find me.
