Peter - electric and acoustic bass, vocals, keyboards, harmonica, french horn, loops, chief engineer.
Influences
Music, real and imagined. OK, all facetiousness and grandiosity aside: His Name Is Alive, Superchunk, Low, Mark Lanegan, Grandaddy, Dos, The Jesus Lizard, The Magnetic Fields, Morphine, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, The Minutemen, Broadcast, Polvo, Wire, Devin Sarno, Wendy Atkinson, Benoit Pioulard and more...
I've shared stages and appeared on bills with Adrienne Anemone, A Paschal Circus, Beilby's Ball, The Bell Tree, Ching Chong Song!, Coach Mahler, Collapsing Opposites, Creaky Boards, Crooked Sound, John Davey, Folio (a Books cover band!), Matt Jones, Jenny Hoyston's Paradise Island, The Hat Madder, Head And Toe, Rollin Hunt, Billy Jackson, Medicine Crow, Molly-Jean, Sarah Louck, The Plurals, Rattling Wall Collective, Ribbons of Song, Jeremy Rizik, Ruberdus, Joe Scott, That's Him! That's The Guy!, The Three Thieves, Vapidity Consulate, everyone who played at the "Situations At Hand" compilation release, and everyone who played ELFest.
AUTHORLESS is an emerging musical experiment, set for launch July 1, 2008. Ten demo songs are offered (above), with the understanding that they can be altered in any way -- rearranged, rewritten, or reimagined. After one year, all versions go to Paul Roessler (The Screamers, .45 Grave, Nina Hagen) to be ultimately mixed and mastered into one full-length album, no doubt in a vastly different form than the "root demos" in the SNOCAP store above. You can help AUTHORLESS succeed by purchasing the tracks above. As new versions arrive, they will be added to the store. Since this is a fundraiser for AUTHORLESS, each track is $1.39, or you can buy all ten root demos as a package for ten bucks. Both ways help a lot! To participate in AUTHORLESS, drop me a message!
Stargrazer is the pages of a songwriting journal: Using the tools at hand, I've been writing songs since 1997 and performing since 2003. Live shows take shape as simple voice and acoustic bass. All live performances are committed without any effects, loops, or processors, because I don't own any. And for now, I prefer it that way.
When I'm recording, restless experimentation is the house rule: sliced up improvisations, disconnected beats, found-sound, and FX-laden soundscapes get paired together with scratchy vocals in a lo-fi environment. Editing is intuitive and far from precious. The result is a recorded catalog that, while jagged and challenging, manages seductiveness and charm at the same time. For the time being, my recording skills are more early Sebadoh than they are Brian Eno... but I have aspirations to be a little bit of both! Like-minded collaborators are sought.
Your time spent listening is sincerely appreciated, and comments are welcome.
I'm involved in the creative development of It Takes A Village To Make Records, which is an alternative approach to distributing and marketing music. Like great jazz and classical labels from the past, ITAV pairs musicians with visual artists -- although with a contemporary aesthetic. ITAV's distribution model is based on magnetism: attracting listeners with uniqueness rather than with blanket marketing or saturation techniques. Listeners become seekers, instead of merely the receiving end of market research. Support ITAV by following the link.
Stargrazer is the newest member of Good Time Gang Recordings, a collective boasting the talents of The Plurals, The Break-Ups, Head And Toe, A Paschal Circus, Crookedsound and many other great artists.
I'm also a member of "quiet noise" band The Nanobots - * PREPARE TO BE SMITTEN *
Hello Stargrazer!!!! We have 10 fresh new dubstep tracks for the summer from ATOMIKDOG on his new album "Freak-a-delic Vol.3" OUT NOW on 369rekchordz. addictech. com
... Big UP and Much Respect from Atomikdog & 369rekchordz!!!
Thanks for the request. Hopefully you have enjoyed our show but if you haven't heard it yet go check out the Half Hour Music Hour on www. strangedesign. net. Go give it a listen.
come rock and roll at the rendezvous tomorrow night with ourselves, the cartridge family and drinking mercury. its going to be a hell of a cinco de mayo.
