Kris Summers
A Machine with multicolored flashing and blinking lights
A 100TB sample sequencing chip attached to my cerebral cortex
Various Muses, imaginary, artificial & real...
Influences
MARTIN HANNETT BRIAN ENO FLOOD
JOY DIVISION KILLING JOKE NEW ORDER WIRE DEPECHE MODE DEVIN TOWNSEND
All New Order spin-offs
All Wire spin-offs
The Smashing Pumpkins
My Bloody Valentine
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Radiohead
The Cure
U2
Hillsong United
Delirious?
The Stone Roses
The Smiths
Morrissey
The Killers
The Pixies
Jimmy Eat World
Angels & Airwaves
The Birthday Massacre
Chicane
Chemical Brothers
Gary Numan
Nine Inch Nails
Jesu
Ministry
ATP [JAPAN]
Masami Akita - Merzbow
Michio Kurihara
Isis
Neurosis
Underoath
Zao
As I Lay Dying
Haste The Day
Sinai Beach
Norma Jean
Few Left Standing
Bauhaus
Soundgarden
Paradise Lost
Type O Negative
My Dying Bride
The Sisters Of Mercy
Fields Of The Nephilim
Mastodon
Throbbing Grizzle
BLADE RUNNER
Sounds Like
1.The chaos, noise and confusion in my head interpreted, organized and transposed into sequenced audio medium.... (repeat at 140bpm)
2.Everyday noises, cars, people, radio, the droning noise of construction work, the tapping of fingers ..boards and clicking of mice. The sinewave like hum of electrical objects, computers, air conditioners, refridgerators. Ambulance/FireEngine/Police sirens... you name it... (repeat at 130bpm)
3.The dream or nightmare I had last night, images and feelings of elation, fear, joy, terror, comfort, anxiety, hope, hopelessness, pounding of a migrane or heartbeat... (repeat at 120bpm)
4.None, some or all of the above... (repeat at 110bpm)
5.The hum of police spinners hunting for you (repeat at 100 bpm)
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Electric Colony is the solo project of Toronto Canada based guitarist/composer Kris Summers. Eclectic experimental guitar driven industrial rock influenced by post punk/new wave and elektro rock bands like Joy Division, Wire & My Bloody Valentine. A continuing experimental process, seeking to explore the boundaries of repetitive extreme rhythm, melody and sonic textures, focussing on heavy guitars and spiritually centered vocals, all held steady on a solid foundation of industrial style percussion. All tracks are recorded, mixed and
produced digitally.
"The origin of music likely stems from natural sounds and rhythms: the human heartbeat, the songs of birds, the rustling of wind through trees, the thunder and sound of rain, the dripping of water in a cave, the crackle of a burning fire and the sounds of waves breaking on a beach or bubbles in a brook. Man-made music echoes these soundscapes using patterns, repetition and tonality."
"A core principle of music is repetition. It appears in runs, trills and stanzas, as well as in pounding rock rhythms and dance music.
People dancing in clubs and waltz-halls commonly go into trance-like states. Music, rhythm and repetition have a hypnotic effect that can lull people into following a pattern in unthinking ways."
"Repetition of the material of music plays a very important role in the composing of music and somewhat more than in other artistic media. If one looks at the component motives of any melody, the successive repetition of the motives becomes apparent. A melody tends to "wander" without repetition of its rhythmic and pitch components and repetition gives "identity" to musical materials and ideas. Repetition is also used in chord progressions and in patterns of dynamics and timbre. Whole phrases and sections of music often repeat."
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