faux.non is a creative collaboration of artists JW and SZ. Between the two, there is over 30 years of experience in the areas of music, photography, writing and painting. The faux.non experience combines their many creative interests into one far-reaching odyssey into the experimental art world.
Influences
Music : Tim Hecker, Pete Namlook, Solarfields, Tortoise, Biosphere, Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Saul Stokes, Marco Torrance, Dire Wires, Philip Jeck, The Orb, Wormsign, Boards of Canada, Sigur Ros, Steve Roach, Kid7, Xerxes, Workbench, River Tribe, Port Royale, Carbon Based Life Forms, Mark Rushton, Harold Budd!, Nadja, Andrew Chalk, Rosy Parlane, Mnemonists/Biota, AMM, Organum, Iannis Xenakis, Bernard Parmegianni, Arvo Part, Bernhard Gunter, Keith Rowe, Eliane Radigue, William Basinski, Mirror, Ora, J. coleclough, NWW, The Necks, Steve Roden/in between noise, Harry Partch, Jeph Jerman/Hands To, Boris, Quiet Artworks/Hajsch/PFN, Monos, Charalambides, Labradford, Dead C, Jewelled Antler axis, Simon Wickham-Smith, Ilyas Ahmed, Richard Youngs, Richard Maxfield, Joe Jones, L.A.F.M.S., early Residents, BJ Nilsen, Eluvium, Omit, This Heat, Dome/Wire, Seth Nehil, mnorthham, Tape, Richard Chartier, Can, Earth, Pink Floyd, Faust, Pauline Oliveros, Coh, Gyorgy Ligeti, Scott Tuma, Alvin Lucier, Harry Bertoia, Lichens, Voice Crack, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Giacinto Scelsi, Taj Mahal Travellers/Takehisa Kosugi, Tomas Koner, Aerial M(brilliant first album), King Crimson('69-'74), Tony Conrad, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, etc etc etc...
Writers : William Zinsser, Ben Yagoda, Malcom Gladwell, John Eldridge, David Toop, Jules Verne, John Crowley, William Gaddis, Joseph Mcelroy, Thomas Bernhard, Gerhard Roth, Jose Saramago, Robert Coover, Milorad Pavic, Haruki Murakami, James Salter, Michel Tournier, etc...
Artists : Everyone (anyone) at Coudal Partners, Kevin Cornell, Jason Santa Maria, Mark Rushton, Scott Hansen, Aaron Jasinski, Mark Rothko, Albert Bierstadt, Odilon Redon, Claude Monet, Cy Twombly, Roberto Matta, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Arshile Gorky, Zao wou-ki ...
Movies : Sahara, National Treasure, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Pride & Prejudice, Serendipity, Woman in the Dunes, Magnolia, In th Name of the Father, Ran, Memento, Unbearable lightness of Being, Baraka, Stalker, There Will Be Blood, Dead Ringers, Quay Brothers, Cassavetes: Husbands & The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Deconstructing Harry, Crimes and Misdemeanors, etc...
Other stuff : Nature, 8 guys at TTC, a 95 Dodge Caravan, weather, love of a beautiful woman, God.
Sounds Like
Organic analogue textures and soundtrack feedback loops over a bed of warm homemade drone.
Once SZ's journey found him back at square one in northwest Iowa, he joined forces with longtime experimental musician, josiah white. Pooling their hardware, software and sound-production instruments, they forged a new collaborative identity.
Hardware :
Moog Low-pass Filter, Moog Ring Modulator, Hughes and Kettner Tube Rotosphere, Maxon Rotary Phaser, Akai Headrush E1 and E2, Line6 Filter and Modulation Modelers, Lexicon Jam Man (8 and 32 second models), Lexicon Vortex, Lexicon MPX200, Digitech Time-Machine RDS8000, Line6 Echopro, JoeMeek Mic Preamp, Danelectro daddy-o fuzzbox, Chuck Collins harmonic percolator, electro-harmonix 16 second delay, Electro-Harmonix memoryman stereo chorus/delay, FM3 Buddha Machine (red), Tascam 424 Portastudio, Ernie Ball Volume Pedal, Sharp MD MT15 minidisk recorder, Westminster Solidstate shortwave radio, Casio SK1, Audio-technica stereo-condenser mic, Audio-technica condenser mic, Shure SM57...
Instruments :
Fender Telecaster, Danelectro 59 dc, Silvertone 1448 ("cracked," drone guitar), Korg MS2000, Voce V5 Organ Module, Ensoniq Mirage, Apollo Melodica, Artisan 6-string Lapsteel, Fender Jazz Bass, Kona Accoustic Guitar, Fender blues junior amp, Hartke 10" amp, Motion-sound amp, E-bow, HP 204c Ocillator, Hickok Function Generator,Toca Congas, Zildjian Cymbals, Han Chi Wind Gong, Mapex Mars series 5 piece drum set, Djembe, Mbira, Nepal Singing Bowl, Suzuki Handbells, Yamaha upright piano.
Software :
Mixman Studio, Audacity, Goldwave, Mixpad, Soundblaster Live tools.
Additional sound sources :
1967 Ducati gas tank, Assorted junk from z's apartment, Cardboard Mailing Tube,
hi scott! hope you are well my friend.. this music is so lovely, i was instantly carried away into an alternate universe. and found myself lost in it. i hope you do an album with this project on cardamar or any other label that can get your sounds out there...!
