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travis johns

About Me

What am I?
Human. Alive. Breathing, thinking, walking, talking, air molecule vibrator.
Born in upstate NY, educated in the midwest and currently nesting in San Francisco, Ca. Perform on bass and electronics, ping-ponging one off of the other, feeding back and feeding forward. Also perform on laptop, playing overlapping walls of noisewash sourced from field recordings, small sounds and societal hum. Write music that's dense and haunting, loud and quietabstract.
Member of a couple bands across the country. In Oakland, I play in the Pink Canoes, a 4tet w/ Noah Phillips, Zachary Watkins and Aram Shelton. Also a member of Satellite, a 3tet w/ Steini Gunnarsson and Liz Meredith. In Ann Arbor, I'm a member of a audiovideo improv collective called The Night. Membership varies, but usually such people as Ami K. Dang, John Hensel and Greg McMahon are usually involved. Once upon a time, I was also a member of a NYC based electro band called Fighter Pilot. Most recently, I've also found myself involved w/ twother projects - namely, playing electronics in Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra! aswellas vslykon (timetravel/celestial protosongs) w. a.kataoka. May or may not ocassionally play under the name of vsls when anonymity is dee-sired...
For more better info on everything, go to www.think-tankmedia.net. It be a webbysite for me and some other like-minded individuals working in the same vein. You like, I promise.
::latenight:insight:: feed://think-tankmedia.net/trav/vslkast.xml
New Disc! Check it @ think-tankmedia.net/satellite/releases/sylvedic.html or right here!
$10.00 CD ppd

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 05/06/2006
Band Website: www.think-tankmedia.net
Band Members: travis johns - field recordings, electronics, bass, found objects, compositions

contribute/collaborate: jhensel, amidang, greg mcmahon, jchurchman, noahphillips, zach watkins, aram shelton, steinigunnarsson, liz meredith, leif shackelford, a.kataoka & mc brzytwa. More known and unknown.
Influences: Society, nature, beehives, industrial wastelands, the ocean & silence, to name a few.

profoundhumaninfluencs:

m.amacher
e.fullman
l.m.young
m.akita
e.maccool
h.partch
p.oliveros, etc.
Sounds Like: "a hymn cried out to the Great Unknown, reassuringly clinging to rescue fantasies." - Lost At Sea Magazine

"Beautiful and dark, these pieces capture both the power of environmental soundscapes and the emotion of classical composition." - DJ Spooky

"Minimal drones from a bass guitar and electronics, for something sounding like the distant swarming of well oiled mechanical bees woven with fissures of dark tones and noise rips." - Baltimore City Paper

"television static" - tj
Record Label: Thinktank, Pendu, dolor del estamago, Enterruption
Type of Label: Indie

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