Member Since: 5/7/2006
Band Members:Will Fearless and various other people, animals, minerals and objects, both voluntary and unsuspecting...
I circuit bend toys, (take them apart and solder switches, resistors, patch bays and stuff onto them) -mostly sampling keyboards: To date I have modified a Casio SK-1, two Casio SK-5's, a Yamaha VSS-200, another Casio I can't remember the name of, a modified record turntable and a modified dictaphone with adjustable speed and 2 circuit bent key-tars. I've done some others, but they've been either given away or have broken.
I also use contact mics, electromagnetic mics -which pickup all kinds of droning, crackling interference and bleeps, found sounds on cassette tape, vinyl, minidisc, CD and digital format, and I use a Boss multi-effects pedal and looping pedal, sometimes making sounds with my mouth or the bare jack lead, occasionally plugging in an actual guitar!
Occasionally I use a Zoom Sampletrakk sampler and sometimes I write stuff exclusively on the computer, but not not very often these days. I prefer a hands-on way of making music.
Influences: R. Murray Schafer (pioneer of acoustic ecology), Hildegard Westerkamp, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros and the Deep Listening Group, anyone interested in our soundscape and consciously or unconsciously contributing to it in beautiful ways.
Sounds Like: Nothing else
Type of Label: None