not entirely sure what everyone does, actually. but at some point, some of the people listed above are using some subset of the following: samplers, tape recorders, ipods, flugelhorns, zanilators, synths (modular, analog, digital, mechanical, imaginary. mostly SDIY), krackleboxes, euphoniums, laptops, police scanners, shortwave radios, valve trombones, tibetan bells, sandblasting equipment, video projectors, Wogglebug 3's, and other stuff.
Influences
musical touchpoints: faust, nurse with wound, the godz, cabaret voltaire, negativland, the haters, people like us, chrome, the fugs, christian markley, cromagnon, etc.
literary references: Burroughs/Gysin cutup technique and dream machine experimentation; The Principia Discordia; The Lesser Book of the Vishanti; Mackay's "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"; Frazer's "Golden Bough"; Helmholtz's "On the Sensations of Tone"; JG Ballard; Charles Schultz; David Ohle;Flann O'Brien...
visual art influences: surrealism, dada, futurism, Pop art, Time Based Visual Media, etc.
cinematic stuff: industrial training films, spaghetti westerns, nature documentaries, surveillance footage, old cartoons, "Primer", "Wax: or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees", "Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?", "The Holy Mountain", "Videodrome".
"is that how you build an A-Hole-ean harp?"
--Rex Probe
More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.
I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber.
I need it for my dreams.
hi there ! uploaded some experimental videos and some new songs and pictures... R.O.N.F. Records released a full lengh CDr with new and old stuff of EXTREME HAIR STENCH... so...look at my side and enjoy it... :) yours emilmann23
Thanx for being the first friend to visit my new place! What a lovely den of highly intelligent noise you have cultivated here. Fondly, i am *Prosaic today, maybe poetic tomorrow... *smile*
You are invited. Send us a message and we will send you an address to submit your music for consideration to compile in our first project: The Global Butterfly Music Effect project .. .. aleatory records (click here)
Dear Friend ESCV, Thank u for providing "Garden of Forking Paths"...i keep hearing new things and nuances each play, and it is a fine meditation. Good medicine--thank u. ~etta
Nature an unceasing prayer... Wordless. Mindless. Endless.
Thanks so much for your friendship, John
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