Phylum Sinter

Bio:

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::::Biography (condensed)

Phylum Sinter is the pseudonym of 28 [born December 26, 1980] year old C.Todd, a Detroit-area native currently living in the outskirts of the City. He has been making music for as long as he's been able to read/write [4-5 days].

When asked on his goals, he had this to say:
"Currently, I am fascinated with the interplay of senses. I continue to explore synaesthetic responses. It is my goal to get to the point where I am comfortable applying the observations made on altering mindstates via sound and rhythm to provoke emotional, mental and physical responses in the listener -- much in the same way film directors or poets can."


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::::Other pages I contribute to

~roots, branches, leaves
The NIMH
Del.ici.ous
LinkedIn
Matterwave Collective
Flickr
last.fm

::::Current Releases, Comrades, Partners

***note: The most recent Free collection is the Exclusive Remasters 2004-2006 LP, downloadable for free from last.fm. Get it right here, donate a buck or two if you'd like to see more for free.

::::Re: More for free

-- I realize there are a good amount of people out there that still people prefer to have their music on physical media along with the art and such (stay strong!!). Though it's largely unsaid, standard practice is to give anyone that donates directly to me [via the paypal button above] $5 or greater will receive a thank you gift, usually in the form of self-pressed cd's filled with unreleased tracks, drafts and works in progress, or at least links to some higher quality DRM-free mp3's that you can burn and keep on whatever medium you choose.

Donations of $10 or more will get a pro-pressed cd or compilation from the archive (outside the u.s. this is trickier, but i'll try to accomodate!).

Be sure to have your address listed on your donation if you wish to receive anything! :]

(Very) Limited Edition CDs with unreleased material are currently in the planning phase. Vinyl may happen too.

::::Twitter Stream

:::04.09.2009::: Instead of updating this thing by hand, i'm implementing the flash widget (which should be right above this) that will have up to date info on what i'm hacking from Twitter. For album announcements i'll still be using the combo of bulletins and myspace blog... with the occasional gross invite to purchase genuine data and physical articles. That kinda bothers me when it's abused so it will be very sparingly. Goodnight, old news method.

:::03.11.2009::: ..Breaktime OVER, time to work!.. OK so i'm not great with keeping all of my pages updated. I can accept that, can you? So much has happened since i last updated this section that you're better off googling my name or checking at least the myspace blog. 'From Unity To Segmentation' EP is done, will be released on CD via Abandon Building Records -- expect a firm release date soon. I'm also nearly done writing an as-yet untitled EP to be released digitally/itunes et al. for Middle Management Recordings. It should see release before Summer. 5 Songs on it, more details as the songs materialize. Focusing with great intent ..ing my LP called 'Amongst Fauna and Wiring' for Tympanik Audio, and have given myself plenty of time to let the ideas gestate, they're coming along well now. A load of mostly free compilations are in the release queue too, one for IVDT (see top of page, clicky clicky for download now!), one for Xynthetic, one for Volume Voice and one for Soulseek Records that should be finalized any day now. All 4 should see release before summer rolls in. Exciting stuff! Most of the time i forget how busy i am, thanks for reading this and making me remember what i do all day. Til next time, enjoy! (p.s. most updates will be at the blog/bulletin only, so subscribe to those if you care to hear whats timely).


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Member Since:

January 10, 2005

Members:

c.todd

Influences:

::::Always:

Explosions, Shiny Objects, Classical Piano Music [Especially Chopin and Claude Debussy], Flowery female mannerisms, Count Chocula, Outer Space, Innerspace, Possibility, Probability, Every day.

::::Music:

Stars of The Lid, Ministry, Franz Liszt, Nintendo games, Tangerine Dream, Meat Beat Manifesto, Autechre, Proem, Tracker weirdos, The Beach Boys, The Potions, Mungus, Lackluster, Future Crew, Amiga nerds, Ryuichi Sakamoto, A Silver Mountain Zion, Nailbomb, Air, Apparat, Bach, Joseph Nothing, Haujobb, Noise Unit, Frontline Assembly, Skinny Puppy, David Byrne, Chopin, The Talking Heads, Ween, Funkstorung, Jaron Lanier, Nine Inch Nails, Lamb, Alva Noto, Depeche Mode, Vivaldi, many, many friends and unknowns...

::::Misc:

Arthur Schopenhauer, Neurological Research, Synaesthesia, Psychology, Existentialism, Surrealism, Metaphysics, Quantum Mechanics, Engineering, Sound Design, Sociology, Linguistics, Rome [HBO's take and the actual], Egypt [ditto], History, Humanity, Evolution, Mutation, Ecology... all of these things in various combinations are bouncing about inside as I write music, and many of my albums hover around these ideas.

Sounds Like:

The apes have been listening to lots of lectures on musical theory, harmonic balance, and melodic dissonance; then have been placed in a room with music making computers.

Record Label:

Tympanik, Xynthetic, M-Tronic, Abandon Building...

Label Type:

Indie