Conure

Bio:

If you're interested in listening to more of and/or purchasing any of my music, please visit: http://conure.bandcamp.com

Now based in Berlin, Mark Wilson (also of 15 Degrees Below Zero and Rings of Smoke Through the Trees) has been creating ambient noise and other varieties of sound art under the moniker Conure since May of 2000. He has released an extensive catalog of music on Edgetone Records, Connexion Bizarre, Solipsism, Crunch Pod, and others, in addition to touring successfully throughout the US, Canada, and Berlin. Conure has also collaborated and performed with various other sound art, new music, and jazz musicians such as Big City Orchestra, Instagon, Nihil Communication, Rent Romus, CJ Borosque, Phillip Greenlief, and Thomas Park, amongst others. He currently utilizes various microphones, effects pedals, loops, field recordings, and mixer as his main set of tools to create sounds that range from minimal drones to heavily layered walls of feedback and cacophony.

EQUIPMENT USED (current and past):
keyboards (Yamaha CS2X, Roland JP8000, Midiman Oxygen8), Roland MC-303 Groove Box, Roland MS-1 sampler, Alesis SR-16 drum machine, various software applications (Adobe Audition, Ableton Live, Fruity Loops, Cool Edit Pro, Sound Forge, SimSynth), mixers (Mackie 1402-VLZ3, Behringer Eurorack UB1202, some Alesis 16 track behemoth), Roland ED UA-30 Audio Interface, Edirol USB Audio Capture UA-25, found sounds, field recordings, samples, minidisc recorders (Sharp MD-MT15, Sony Hi-MD MZ-RH910), various CD players, contact mics and other microphones, laptops (some Dell Latitude model, Toshiba Portege 4000, Toshiba Tecra A4, Toshiba Tecra A9), various effects (Boss RC-20XL Loop Station, Line6 DL4 Delay Modeler, Take Flight Pedals Goose Fuzz, Electro-Harmonix Octave Multiplexer, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress Flanger/Filter Matrix, Electro-Harmonix Doctor Q Envelope Follower, Ashdown Bass Envelope Filter, Boss Digital Reverb/Delay RV-3, Alesis NanoVerb, Boss Digital Delay DD-6, Boss Digital Delay DD-3, Boss Equalizer GE-7, Arion Digital Delay/Sampler DDS-1, DOD Overdrive Plus FX50-5, DOD Equalizer FX40-B, Boss Hyper Fuzz FZ-2, Boss Hyper Metal HM-3, DigiTech PDS 1550 Programmable Distortion, Boss Heavy Metal HM-2 distortion, Darelectro Milkshake Chorus, Boss Distortion DS-1, Boss Enhancer EH-2, Ibanez Thrashmetal TM5, Arion Octave MOC-1, Boss Bass Flanger BF-2B, DOD Stereo Phaser FX20-B, Danelectro FAB Echo, Danelectro FAB Metal, Danelectro, FAB Flange, Danelectro FAB Chorus, Digitech Hot Rod Rock Distortion, Johnson Fifties Tremolo FT-2, Wholenote Phaser PH-170, DOD FX7 Guitar FX Processor/Preamp, Jim Dunlop USA Original Crybaby GCB-95, Dunlop USA Crybaby 535Q, multiple software effects), various turntables and records, toy electronic drum, portable television, various radios, guitar

RELEASES (in reverse order of completion):
**Interpreting Genius CD - label TBC (forthcoming) **Thomas Park and Conure - Spacial Rework net release/CDR - Auricular Records (forthcoming)
**Surrounded By Pages net release - Treetrunk Records
**Cobblestones and Heels net release - Onyudo
**Thomas Park and Conure - Fragments and Connections CDR - Auricular Records
**Hidden Blinds net release/CDR - Connexion Bizarre
**Strings, Locations CD - Edgetone Records
**Rings of Smoke Through the Trees (Thomas Dimuzio, Andre Custodio, Conure) - Rings of Smoke Through the Trees cassette - Danvers State Recordings
**Conure and 15 Degrees Below Zero split cassette - Danvers State Recordings (forthcoming)
**Stream CD - Edgetone Records
**Thomas Dimuzio & Andre Custodio/Conure - Street of Errs split CDR - Cohort Records
**Resonance CDR - Sonora
**Conure/Kenji Siratori - Heteromania net release - Conure Productions
**The Generation of Our Grandfathers CD - Edgetone Records
**8/14/05: TIF Livenoise Series 6 3"CDR - Thee Instagon Foundation
**An Act of Selfishness 3"CDR - Solipsism
**Scanning Channels CDR - Immanence Records
**49 Minutes (Until Release) CD - Crunch Pod
**After They're Gone CDR - Snip-Snip Records
**Last Walk CDR - Crunch Pod Media
**Collected and Unheard CDR - Crunch Pod Media
**Conure vs. Fuck the Facts split CDR - Ghetto Blaster Recordings
**Frustration CDR - Crunch Pod Media
**Conure/LHDSWTE split cassette - Troniks
**Imperial Floral Assault/Stolen Light/Conure/Goose split CDR - Zaftig Research

COMPILATION APPEARANCES:
**23 More Seconds of Your Life net release - Twenty Three Seconds ov Time, Volume 4: From All Direktions - Autonomous Individuals Network
**Shivers - Orakel und Spektakel net release - Onyudo
**In 23 Seconds, the Time Will Be... 2cdr/net release - Twenty Three Seconds ov Time, Volume 2: All Things Permitted - Autonomous Individuals Network
**23 Seconds of Oblivion net release - 23 Seconds ov Time, Volume One - Autonomous Individuals Network
**3 untitled collaborations (see below) - Absurditeits cassette comp - ZUIVERINGliederen
**07/20/09 (excerpt) - Live From the Devil's Triangle Volume 12 2CD - KFJC
**1/17/09 (excerpt) - Outside New Music Summit, July 19, 22-25, 2009 Digital Compilation dropcard
**Lathe - Your Feedback is Appreciated: Noisefest XII Compilation Document CDR - Norcal Noisefest Org
**Ralphie Goes AWOL - Season of Snow and Ice 2CDR - Zaftig Research
**2/26/06 (excerpt) - Sacramento Audio Waffle Vol. 2 DVDR - The Sacramento Lords of Noise
**Manhattan State of Mind (excerpt) - Death Guild 13th Anniversary March 13, 2006: DJ Mitch CDR - Death Guild
**Ralphie 4 - A New Star in the Heavens CDR - Zaftig Research
**5/29/04 - 3rd Annual Festival of Noise! 2DVDR - Deterrent Industries
**Ralphie 3 - Winter CDR - Zaftig Research
**Pachyderm - Tonal Destruction II 3CD - DTA Records
**Truncated Performance - An Element Mass: Experiments in Sound V1 2CDR - Kolorform Records
**Truncated Performance - Calling All Reactive Agents, Volume ..2 CDR - Anima Mal Nata
**Priorities - I-Celestial-Insect 2CD - Doctsect
**Ralphie 2 - Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men CDR - Zaftig Research
**Time Alone - Unwelcome or Ignored: The Noisefest 2001 Performance Compilation CD - Super Art Media
**I Want to Be the Star in a Stallone Film - Rise of the Robots CDR - Ghetto Blaster Recordings
**All Right Then - Ibol Records (Mag)(a)(zine) Number 2 CDR - Ibol Records
**Avoiding the Memory - Tonal Destruction 2CD - DTA Records
**Toil - Chloroform II CDR - Cyber-Blast Records
**Ralphie - Let It Snow 2CDR - Zaftig Research

COLLABORATIONS:
**Armenia + Conure - untitled - Absurditeits cassette comp - ZUIVERINGliederen
**Conure + Women in Tragedy - untitled - Absurditeits cassette comp - ZUIVERINGliederen
**Conure + Filthy Turd - untitled - Absurditeits cassette comp - ZUIVERINGliederen
**Conure/Kenji Siratori - multiple tracks - Heteromania CDR - label TBA (forthcoming)
**Moz/Conure - Monsoon - unreleased
**Imperial Opera Company/Conure - Hatshudensho - Collected and Unheard CDR - Crunch Pod Media
**Imperial Opera Company/Conure - Dead Soul Battery - unreleased
**Imperial Opera Company/Conure - The Past is Dead - Collected and Unheard CDR - Crunch Pod Media

REMIXES:
**Perfection Plastic - Intérieur (Conure remix) - L'Echec de la Matiere online release - Force of Nature
**Caustic - Love That Taint (Conure mix 2) - Rainbows, Puppies, and Crap 2CDR
**Caustic - Love That Taint (Conure mix 1) - unreleased
**Free Death - The Roughest Diamond (Conure remix) - The Roughest Diamond CDR(single) - No-Fi Studios
**Dismantled - The Swarm (the recital mix by Conure) - unreleased
**Cruelty Campaign - The Arguement (Conure remix) - Dark Pathways Vol. 2: Eclipse CDcomp - Crunch Pod Media

Members:

Mark Wilson

personal MySpace profile
http://www.myspace.com/conure_ifau

15 Degrees Below Zero's MySpace profile
http://www.myspace.com/15degreesbelowzero

Influences:

Thomas Dimuzio, Bad Sector, Merzbow, Sleeping With the Earth, Daniel Menche, Einsturzende Neubauten, Steve Reich, Reutoff, Xome, Stimbox, Troum, Maeror Tri, Inade, Brume, Francisco Lopez, and many others that experiment with sound

Sounds Like:

"...US sound artist Conure...creates complex and original works of electronic manipulation full of rich textures and fine details that don't fall into an easy category."
-Patrick (Self Abuse Records/Solipsism)

"Your 49 minutes cd is amazing!!! Juicy rhythm and creamy atmospheric bleakness. Soundtrack for futuristic German mortuary porno dream sequence. Hot and Hyponotic. A solid listen all the way through!!!"
-from an e-mail from David Lim (Tralphaz)