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1/3 Octave Band

About Me

The 1/3 Octave Band consists of Bill Wood and Jules Desmond. They have also been known to collaborate with others unfortunate enough to agree to do so.The 1/3 Octave Band carves out aural sculptures from formless base slabs of sound consisting of field recordings, broken electronics, old guitars, radios - in fact, whatever comes to hand. The results have been described as "cinematic" and "moving with the aimless grandeur of space junk"

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/06/2006
Band Members: Bill Wood, Jules Desmond and various others...
Influences: Cups of tea and cake du jour.
Sounds Like: "...the soundtrack to a migraine" according to Mrs. Bill Wood.
Otherwise... "Deep space gloomp and wind-tortured drone-silence from the duo of Bill Wood - sometimes member of Campbell Kneales Birchville Cat Motel orchestra and Jules Desmond. Huge lungs of void cut up with diamonds of percussion and lone metal tone in classic globe-gobbling style. " apparently...
Record Label: Various (whoever will have us)

My Blog

Update from Bill.

Well here it is well into the future as glimpsed by our last blog so its probably worth putting pen to paper (or, more relevantly, finger to keyboard) and updating the blissful goings-on in 1/3 Oc...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:44:00 GMT

1/3 Octave Happenings

We thought an update/blog kinda thing was long overdue, just to let you know what we've been up to recently. Although it may seem that 1/3 Octave Band has been quiet or even inactive for the last 12 m...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:42:00 GMT