G. Ben-Diks......drums, occassional confetti toss, cymbals, little instruments, assistant MC, industrial percussives, scribe and laughs .
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Kenny Withrow......guitars, stomp boxes, processors/electronics, loop machine(s), samples, drum machine(s), shorts and hats.
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Kim Corbet......keyboards, occassional trombone, MC extra-ordinaire, samples, drum machine(s), processors/electronics, little instruments, loop machine(s), buys lunches.
Influences
The action and purpose of household sponges... strings, electricity, drums, speakers, keys, hammers, wires, brass alloys, wood, air, resonating chambers, metals, plastics, balancing university music programs with teen-age garage rock 'n' roll bands, paper, cans, tubes, centrifugal forces, Dada-ism, Theatre of The Absurd, collages, Modern Dance, 9 volt batteries, asking both why? and why not?, velcro, springs, fruit, telephones and the internet, kaleidescopic perceptions, silent noiz and noisy silence, la vache qui rit, factual abstractions and abstracted realities
Sounds Like
A music mash-up of a bag of eucalyptus, a strip of velour, and a bell with some wires poking out.
Note about the music: we'll change the tunes every now and then...check back every now and then.This site is more "long tune" friendly. You'll love them, fer sure ..................Dallas and Ft.Worth and Denton (Texas, USA) has a lot of musicians. Many of the Dallas-area musicians like music that many people don't know is possible nor that it even exists. And they've been around for many many years. The cruciferous TIDBITS is a trio of existing Dallas musicians that improbably plays music in the hopes that the impossible and the non-existant becomes possible and existant. We get a kick out of it and are quite easily amused by the possiblities inherent in the process and of the finished product.
The gelatinous TIDBITS are an improvising trio. Whereas most improvisers set up a preconceived "background" of harmony, melody, and/or a rhythmic foundation in order to improvise "on top" of said "background", the voltage-regulated TIDBITS also improvises the "background". In other words the form(s) and "backgrounds" themselves are improvised. And since all three members are well-acquainted with the music of the the past 8 centuries (give or take a few weeks), this knowledge of forms/ techniques/colors/etc allows the total possibilities of ALL musics to be constantly refered to, stolen, borrowed, filtered, cajoled, plundered, seduced, warped, mis-appropriated, re-hydrated, frisked, grabbed screaming, and tickled into a possible musical existance.....an acceptance of any music(s) from anywhere from any time from any people so as to flash-to-bang-time it into the present moment of a "Life Dance Of Is" (the title of an Oliver Lake recording that I wish I had thought of first...!).
The frothy TIDBITS approaches music performance as a vast buffet and not as music from a fixed menu.Yes, we like the music of the New World and the music of the Old World of any time period. Being Western, particularly North American, and being basically born in the later half of the 1900's makes the pierced TIDBITS quite sympathetic to North American Jazz and Rock and their varied and many off-shoots and permutations. We dig 'em all. The music of other continents also figures very prominently into our performances. We're also not immune to, indeed we revel in, the influences of Europe, South America, Africa (north and sub-Saharan), Middle-Eastern, Asian....of Theater, Dada-ism, Literature, and Dance.
The collapsable TIDBITS first performed in the early part of the year 2000 and has since performed in many Dallas-area clubs, at S.M.U., the Richardson Wildflowers Festival, White Rock Bath House Cultural Center, etc.
There are 3 recordings currently available : Impossible Music, Bunk As Pitch, and Bobbing For Fries.
The impaled TIDBITS is a non-denominational, full-service, non-discriminatory, all-points bulletin, cruelty-free, kinda band. And proud of it.
