ROGER MILLER (synthesizer, percussion)
KEN WINOKUR (director, junk percussion and clarinet)
TERRY DONAHUE (junk percussion, accordion, musical saw, banjo)
Influences
Harry Partch, Bartok, Hendrix, Tom Waits, The Luvin Brothers, John Cage, Dziga Vertov, Josef von Sternberg
Sounds Like
The Berlin Philharmonic meets Godzilla. Einstezender Neubauten hooks up with Tom Waits. The sound of water dripping into a sink.
ALLOY ORCHESTRA is a three man musical ensemble, writing and performing live accompaniment to classic silent films. Working with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects, they thrash and grind soulful music from unlikely sources.
Performing at prestigious film festivals and cultural centers in the US and abroad (The Telluride Film Festival, The Louvre, Lincoln Center, The Academy of Motion Pictures, the National Gallery of Art and others), Alloy has helped revive some of the great masterpieces of the silent era.
An unusual combination of found percussion and state-of-the-art electronics gives the Orchestra the ability to create any sound imaginable. Utilizing their famous "rack of junk" and electronic synthesizers, the group generates beautiful music in a spectacular variety of styles. They can conjure up a French symphony or a simple German bar band of the 20's. The group can make the audience think it is being attacked by tigers, contacted by radio signals from Mars or swept up in the Russian Revolution. ALLOYORCHESTRA.COM - for complete tour schedule, tons of photos of silent films, and more!
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Hello Sirs~ What a treat it was today to see you in action, and to finally meet the creators of that mesmerizing and exciting sound that roped me in 9 years ago with "Strike!". Many, many thanks for including the PNW in your tour. Cynthia
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We were being and knowing That two were one, and we were three In twelve sided cosmos, drifting by I wasn’t seeing I was feeling And wasn’t being, doing, two were one And when I looked to it Nothing but the corner of my eye Then we were three, and being Being and doing I hadn’t known that two were one We were that same one, and being When I know, I feel I see that two were one We were three and being Drifted through twelve sides And we were being Knowing that two were one And falling there on clouds like stars We were three and known We were one, I don’t know I was being, doing, but I knew That two were one And clouds flow down Drifting, we know, and see Doing, and knowing we were three And knowing two were one That two were one.
