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TYPEWRITER

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About Me

Formed in a Stamford, CT in 1977, Typewriter spoke late but in full sentences. A quiet child, he now makes up for it with much clicking, clacking, zzzzping, gwrling, and binging.
AKA: b.SOUL

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/4/2005
Band Members: Scott hits various resonant things, pushes various sized keys down, twiddles knobs, abbreviates waveforms, bangs on squares, plucks strings, shakes bells, rubs bowls, blows into tubes, listens intensely to floor heaters, and resides in headphones for extended periods of time.

Influences: Experimental music, dub, post-rock, funk, drum 'n' bass, jazz, musique concrete, gamelan, unrequited love songs, ritual music, psychedelic freakouts ....

Plug, Lee Perry, Can, Steve Reich, Squarepusher, Forward Kwenda, Sigur Ros, Pharoah Sanders, Miles, Mingus, Tony Williams, Bernard Purdie, Art Blakey, Clyde Stubblefield, Mike Clark, Farafina, Autechre, Xenakis, Kraftwerk, Lonnie Liston Smith, Ninjatune, Rephlex...
Sounds Like: Telefone Tel Aviv, Mum, Animal Collective, Four Tet, Mogwai, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Album Leaf, Sigur Ros, Cinematic Orchestra, Out Hud, Autechre, Dj Spooky, Mbira music, Ninjatune, Rephlex ...none of the above .............more like a broken lullaby, slowness, a soundtrack to every day, unexpected summertime, the surrender to decay, too much & not enough, childhood curiosity, a heart beating faster, warm fog, unreasonable fear, squiggles&dots&circles, OCD, a bike ride at 4am, and the dream I had last night.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

the lazy hi-fis not curious

"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot." - J. Cage
Posted by TYPEWRITER on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:56:00 PST

cyclic living

Shadow lengths shrink and expand, a flickering contrast of representation and represented. The slowest waves take the longest to recognize. An understated influence modulates us all.
Posted by TYPEWRITER on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

yup, I know that feeling

Never get so attached to a poem you forget truth that lacks lyricism; never draw so close to the heat that you forget that you must eat. -Joanna Newsom En Gallop
Posted by TYPEWRITER on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

where can i go?

I am tired of the sea anemone life. I want to be a jelly fish.
Posted by TYPEWRITER on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST