Noise is solace. Sorrowful and pure. I created Promute in 2002 after graduating from Columbia College Chicago. It is a project in which I take great care to maintain that purity. I have used environmental recordings, electroacoustic instruments, synthesis, and conventional tools to create. I believe in the ever-changing […]
Martijn Tellinga (1974, Netherlands) is a composer and sound-artist in the field of new electroacoustic music and sonic arts. His work shows a great care for textural qualities and eye for compositoric detail and seeks its identity somewhere in the overlap of formalized form and intuitive musicmaking. Constructed from the fundamental building blocks of music; […]
A.M. Salad is an ever-changing sound sculpture set in motion, currently existing at a junction between energized, chaotic rumble and waves of trancing drone; a moody, schizo-sensory treatment fusing meditation and destruction. Sounds are teased from mic’d wire, metal, tools, assemblages, and junk instruments by way of flailing, untamed movement from man, device, and environment. […]
Bobby Hill – Record Players
Chris Downing – Laptop, Keyboards, Samples
Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat) – Electrons
Our medium is sound. Sound generated. Sound borrowed and relocated. With this sound we create places and we create events. Some of these events are music. Many are not. To the extent that the places and events we create are extraordinary […]
Leo Svirsky - Keyboard/Voice
Stephanie White - Voice
Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat) - Electrons
The three members of this group are all students at the University of Maryland and met at the Yoga class of famed yogi James Sam-Kubam in his home/studio near the College Park campus. They soon discovered that besides indestructible bliss they shared a mutual […]
You might think the tight-minded would walk on by, saying this isn’t music at all, it’s just damn noise, turn that shit down! However, the members of Scraping Teeth assure such is not the case. “We always get a strong reaction”, says bassist Isaac Ersoff. The groups guitarist, Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra, picks up on […]
Animental is an outlet for expression in its purest form, drawing inspiration from animals. Animental explores the ideas of innate reactions and behavior of animals vs. the programmed or acceptable actions of the human animal. It hopes to empower the individual who is performing as well as transport the audience to another realm of reality. […]
Gunung Sari is an experimental performance group based in Brooklyn, New York. Formed in late 2005, they have performed in festivals like Bent 2006 + 2007, LaSuperette at Eyebeam, Noise! Fest organized by free103point9 radio at The Ontological Hysteric Theater, Flow at Monkeytown, Phi Phenomena, and Frequencies. They have also played in venues […]
Photo: Zach Veilleux
*Nick Didkovsky* is a guitarist, composer, and software programmer. In 1983, he founded the avant-rock septet Doctor Nerve. He presently resides in New York City, where he composes, creates music software, and teaches computer music composition at New York University. He has composed music for Bang On A Can All-Stars, Meridian Arts Ensemble, […]
Radio Shock is a one-man band that plays sometimes danceable, often dissonant, noise-party music. Radio Shock’s infectious beats will make you want to get up and dance while trying to trip you up at the same time. Created by M*P*Lockwood specifically to tour and entertain live audiences, Radio Shock is designed for maximum mobility. The […]
Byron Westbrook is a composer/sound artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His work involves performance of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment with a focus on redistributing distilled energy of sound and light. In solo performances under the name CORRIDORS, a system of multiple amplifiers is used in conjunction with […]
Koen Holtkamp co-founded the apestaartje collective/label in 1998 while studying at The Art Institute of Chicago. Since then the label has relocated to Brooklyn and released CDs from artists from Japan, Germany, Austria, Australia, France, and the US. Holtkamp has released two solo albums as Aero and two albums as Mountains, a duo project with […]
Montreal-based Christian Richer (synths, guitar, computers, field recordings) learned his music by listening to 70’s rock records, and playing bass in a few rock bands. At the same time, however, he was hooking up tape decks to a mixer at home, creating music using the sounds of guitars, pots and pans, and the television.
His sound […]
Insect Factory is the project of Silver Spring, MD guitarist Jeff Barsky. His playing explores minimal sounds and textures, creating hypnotic and atmospheric drone fields. Insect Factory performances frequently incorporate additional instrumentation.
In the mid 90’s, Barsky spent several years studying classical guitar and composition at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. Since then, […]
Improvised psych with noise tendencies and abstraction. Sonic explorations in any combination of drums, percussion, guitar, bass, laptop, homemade electronics, field recordings, chord organ, and household appliances.
“…we were stoked to get our mitts on this self-released CD-R of smoke-blowing, heavy noise-inflected psychdrone. There’s two tracks on hand, both instrumentals, with a total half hour running […]
Spaceships Panic Orbit formed in April 2001 to explore the textural and sonic possibilities of an unique combination of electronic and acoustic sound sources and a variety of sound production approaches. The group is comprised of Many Spaceships (also in Hat City Intuitive, Plums) on reeds and keyboards, PJ Brownlee (Special Orbit, also in Plums) […]
Incorporating sounds generated by feedback loops and self-oscillating, mysterious boxes, Constant Mauk represents restrained, subtle tones and droning sub-bass backdrops among a sea of manipulated samples. A veteran of the 804noise collective, Constant Mauk (aka cstmk) performed for several years as the “gentler” half of Richmond’s harshest two person project, Harm Stryker, before striking out […]
Beginning their collaboration with mutually divergent interests and lacking formal training, Pat Gillis (synths/samples/efx) and Bill Warford (strings/metals/percussion) found no single musical approach suited their outlook and proceeded to construct a vernacular incorporating numerous influences as well as errors and imaginings entirely their own. Nothing is forbidden, everything is permitted and instrumental roles become freely […]
photographed (c) 2005 by Jodi Shapiro
Based in Brooklyn, New York, sound artivist, composer, core member of SHARE (http://share.dj - an emergent art community and forum), o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) is known for her sound works formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one’s relationship with sounds via kinesthetic response as well as aural cognition in sociological […]
Oier Etxeberria is a musician and visual artist living in Bilbao. He has been involved in collective and individual projects such as the music band Akauzazte, K.O. Toys, the free tv AmatauTV and Periferiak07 art programme. He has exhibited, played and participated in different venues, art galleries and festivals.
Performing Saturday, September 15 at The Warehouse
If the names Thomas Strønen and Ståle Storkløkken might not instantly be familiar, their work is likely to have crossed the path of most contemporary jazz fans. As the drummer of Iain Bellamy’s Food quartet, as well as a regular with the Maria Kannegaard Trio and Parish, the quartet led by Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson, […]
Attended the German School in Bilbao for Primary and Secondary education. There I developed my first photographs, started using computers and also made my first films in Super 8mm.
1985-1990
Attended the Basque University and completed a degree in Fine Arts Specializing in Audiovisuals and Graphic Techniques.
1989-1996
Worked as a journalist for cultural magazines and newspapers (in […]
Safe is a new collaboration between Tyler Higgins and Dave Vosh. employing electro-acoustic devices and modular synthesizer, they build slowly evolving layers of noise often focusing on sounds derived from radio signals.
Dave Vosh has been experimenting with electronic music since the early 70’s, releasing a few collaborations in the tape underground, and this project […]
SHELF LIFE: Joseph Jaros, Jay Schleidt, Bryan Day, Alex Boardman
Shelf Life (Omaha, NE) is the brainchild of Minneapolis native Bryan Day (Sistrum, Eloine, Naturaliste, Nagaoag, Public Eyesore Records) and Omaha’s Alex Boardman (Noiseboat, Watch the Stereo), who began collaborating in 2003, with an impromptu session of Day performing on homemade stringed and electronic instruments and […]
Since the mid 1980s Zan Hoffman has been active in the international noise scene. He has released more than 987 albums and they all have a reason to exist. That is, they exist for a reason. Zan says, “I’m driven by an imperative to do works that make a point nobody else is making. Every […]
Photo: Jen Sandwich
My name is Hal McGee. I have been making homemade recordings of my own experimental, electronic, industrial and noise music since September 1981. In Indianapolis, Indiana in the early 1980s I recorded several tapes of experimental industrial avant pop with Debbie Jaffe, as a duo under the name Viscera. Viscera appeared on countless […]
Chuck Bettis, Mikey IQ Jones, and Derek Morton are mad jugglers
of oddly-shaped musical eggs. Processed banjo, shamanistic chants, and
fried electronics set up against lattices of stuttered beatboxing and
found-object percussion to confound and delight.
Chuck Bettis and Derek Morton met each other in Washington DC, crossing paths as part of that city’s burgeoning experimental music community. Upon […]
The Caution Curves is an evolving musical experiment, employing a
gymnastic, abstract vocal style in conjunction with a free-jazz
percussion backdrop as well as an atmosphere of drone created with
electronic devices. The band explores new ranges of music and sound,
and the tension between structure and improvisation. The music is
not about one type of newer technology versus another, […]
Michael Thomas Jackson (1969) started his music-making endeavors in 1985. Beginning in Memphis and later migrating to Boston, and eventually, North Carolina, his music has been broadcast and released the world over. Michael has been involved in free improvisation, electro-acoustic music, notated composition, avant rock and everything in between. One primary focus has been extended […]
Davis White and David Rickert met in the early 1980s through common friends in the Washington, DC hardcore scene. “I was always intrigued by the homemade guitar kit effects that David had lying about” remembers White, “He would plug them together and make annoying sounds. To my ears this was not music, not even punk […]
Ramón Churruca was born in Bilbao in 1964. He belongs to an important family from Las Arenas. Since childhood, he’s expressed interest in comedy, film and pornography. He studied at the agustino school, Padre Andres de Urdaneta, and recalls that “it was a concentration camp. A soccer culture existed: if you didn’t play, you […]
Baseline is the work of the polifacetic artist (music, video, design, webs…) from Bilbao, born in Gijón, Pilar Baizán.
She started by including sound in video-art, where she already used loops and her own recordings…and little by little, she developer her musical side until she formed Baseline, which really came about as an independent Project in […]
The Cutest Puppy in the World is Bryan Rhodes (of Baltimore) and Layne Garrett (of Washington, DC). We explore emergent forms, extremes of saturated and empty space, scorched remnants of the familiar. We play electric piano, analog synthesizer, combo organ, guitars, found-object percussion, thumb piano, bass clarinet, styrofoam, whatever is within reach. Our music is […]
From the blood of Aphex Twin and the Bones of Ornette Coleman, Ergo’s anatomy is one of stark melodic beauty, enveloping electro-acoustic texture and empathic imagination. Ergo is the collective sound of keyboardist Carl Maguire, Drummer Shawn Baltazor, and lead by trombonist/laptopist Brett Sroka.
After releasing his debut CD, “Hearsay” in 2002, Brett Sroka began performing […]
Ben Owen is based in Brooklyn NY and works with sound, transmission, light, and print.
Ben’s current work include sound and light installation, weekly internet radio, experimental composition, improvised performance, and score based performance.
His sound works grew out of stone litho printmaking where process and destabilization held significance as parallel to itself. engaging indoor and outdoor […]
Patrick McGinley (aka murmer) is an american born sound and performance artist who has lived and worked in Europe since 1996. From 1996 until 1998 he lived in Paris, France, where he studied theatre, and began his sound experiments in the context of those studies. Moving to London, UK, in 1998, he began a collection […]
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Iris Garrelfs is a composer/performer intrigued by change, fascinated with voices and definitely enamoured by technology. She often uses her voice as raw material, which she transmuted into machine noises, choral works or pulverised “into granules of electroacoustic babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing” […]
Joshua Bonnetta (b.1979) is currently pursuing his MFA in Studio Art at Concordia University in Montreal Quebec. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern art in Bogota, Anthology Film Archives, The International Film Exposition, Alucine and with the Loop collective. His work combines direct animation and step printing with processed field […]
Caustic Castle is Kenneth Yates, also of the duo’s Harm Stryker (w/ Constant Mauk) & Insects With Tits (w/ Chefkirk). Kenneth Yates utilizes the no-input mixing technique coupled with live processing using various filters and pedals. With his music usually comes an abstract visual fascination with architecture and is psyhogeographical effects on the human […]
Esther Venrooy (b. 1974, Rosmalen, The Netherlands) is a composer and sound artist working in the field of electronic music.
After completing studies in classical saxophone, Venrooy attended the European Dance Development Center (Arnhem) as a composer in residence, where she began employing electronic and digital techniques in pieces aimed at choreography and stage performance. Gradually […]
ANTANAS JASENKA (b. 1965) Lithuanian electronic music composer and sound artist. In 2002 his work “Deusexmachine” received an award by Lithuanian Composer’s Union for the best electroacoustic music composition, and was later released by Electroshock Records and broadcasted on radio stations worldwide. In addition to his activity in the academic electroacoustic music field, Antanas Jasenka […]
alto saxophone, analogue modular synthesizer, computer.
Thomas Ankersmit (1979) lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam. His
work has been presented across Europe, North America and Japan, in
solo concerts and exhibitions as well as together with artists such
as Phill Niblock, Kevin Drumm, Jim O’Rourke and Axel Dörner.
“Jump-starting his performance on the intimidating Serge modular
synthesizer, Ankersmit created a […]
Photo: Maria Nordin
Moljebka Pvlse is an experimental music group from Stockholm, Sweden.
The group works with both electronic and acoustic instruments, as well as with field recordings and found sounds. The music is often dark and haunting, consisting of minimal soundscapes built by layered drones. At times, there has been touches of noise and even pop.
The […]
Noveller is the solo project of Brooklyn-based sound artist and
filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. Her work has appeared on several
female-focused noise compilations such as the “Women Take Back the
Noise” 3xCD set, and the “Broken Brain” compilation on UK-based label
Chocolate Monk. Lipstate is also featured on the recent 3xCD box set,
“Untitled,” alongside artists such as Thurston […]
The American Composers Forum DC Chapter along with a brigade insane volunteers are busy working to bring Washington the biggest onslaught of happy noise that its collective ears have ever endured. This year we hope to have more than 10 nights of concerts by lots and lots AND LOTS of performers. And a night of […]