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SoniCabal Members
The concept of membership in this organization is a very
loose idea. Everyone in the world are members or there are no
members. Any membership "list" is not going to be completely
inclusive. For the purposes of this group, however, it is the
membership that defines what the SoniCabal is and can be. To
that end, below is a partial list of those who claim membership
in The SoniCabal. Membership is open and encouraged for Seattle
area based sound manipulators. Join our Yahoo
Mailing list and post for more information.
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John
Bain
John Bain is a sound artist currently working in Seattle.
He has a background in architecture and is currently running
Simulux Studios - Seattle, a facility dedicated to the
research of sound and it's implication in architecture.
Presently he is performing with organizational electronics,
as the Mutant Data Orchestra, in an attempt to expose
the hidden structures within our digital technologies.
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Steve
Barsotti
Steve Barsotti is a sound artist and
educator who lives in Seattle. His work includes studio
based explorations of sound for radio broadcast, site
specific sound installation, improvisation on electrical/acoustical
instruments and sound as an integral part of performance.
He has had his work played on radio in Chicago and Berlin
as well as participation in Radio festivals in Canada
and Ireland.
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Christopher
DeLaurenti
Christopher DeLaurenti (1967-2071),
a composer and improviser, writes "My music, the offspring
of my love affair with sound, incorporates murky atmospheres,
unusual field recordings, everyday speech, and an array
of instruments deployed in maniacal recombinant polyphony.
I also perform in the free improvising electronics group
rebreather with Alex Keller."
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Carl
Farrow
Carl Farrow has created music for dance,
film, video and sound-installations as well as doing numerous
performances in clubs and galleries. Besides doing solo
work as inBOIL he performs regularly with electronic trio
STAR*POLAR and the improv-oriented SIL2K ENSEMBLE. He
is a founding member of the SONICABAL and is the kingpin
of PARTIAL, a record label dedicated to adventurous music
in the Pacific Northwest.
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Entropic
Advance
Entropic advance, has been performing, recording, and
producing ambient experimental noise music since 1998.
Wesley Davis (bios+a+ic) and Casey Jones (noise poet nobody)
create a sound which features complex layered beats, lush
effects-laden trumpet, processed slide guitar, rich sampled
textures, unique vocal manipulations, and obscure field
recordings. These evolved influences of EDM, glitch, and
Dn'B, are emersed in ambience, noise, and soundscapes,
creating a distinctive stylistic approach of modern sound
art.
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Ffej
Ffej is a rouge analog synthesist and
sound artist on the run from normality. His experimental
songs and compositions defy description as does his multifaceted
musical life of collaborative activities. Inspirations
include: the roar of the highway, sci-fi movies and drink
tickets.
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Otis
Fodder
Mining the aural dustbins of society Fodder produces the
project, The
Bran Flakes (with Mildred Pitt), which subverts cultural
propaganda by turning it inside out in both humorous and
provocative ways, plays in the ensemble Lullabelle
and curates an assortment of projects (including Comfort
Stand Records).
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Intonarumori
Intonarumori delivers experimental
electronic ambiences using Cello, Bass and electronic
manipulations.
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Carl
Juarez
Self-described isolate and improvising
electronic guitarist Carl Juarez has nonetheless in the
last twenty years managed to be a performing member of
(in chronological order) Freestanding Heuristic Systems,
Mobile Intelligence Unit, Outlying Industrial Areas, the
Carrion Commandos, Your Neighbor's Dog Napalmed in Viet-Nam,
improvising rock group Yama the Pit, Sky Cries Mary, MK-Ultra
(not the well-known one), Projekt
Edison, Chibavision, Mysta-Gee and Invisible Biscuit,
while home-recording countless hours of semi-electronic
music ranging from punk to electroacoustic to ambient.
He maintains a personal studio, Heurihermilab, where he
conducts experiments in generative and deterministic music
and imagewerk.
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Alex
Keller
Alex Keller makes work with other artists,
computers, homemade electronics, and real spaces. The
work addresses topics like gentrification, our sound environment,
myth, and the formal aspects of music and sound. He currently
performs with Christopher DeLaurenti as rebreather and
will be releasing a compact disc very soon.
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Meri
von KleinSmid
Meri von KleinSmid has spent years
experimenting with a variety of techniques and themes,
occasionally collaborating with other artists, or
performing live. Born in Los Angeles, she currently resides
in Seattle. Her formal studies include classical
piano, history of western music, and ethnomusicology.
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Komafuzz
Ever-changing and evolving sounds
pulsate into textures that are blended little by little
and mixed into larger, louder walls of nosie.
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Dale
Lloyd
Founded in 2001, and originally a
sub-label for Overheard And Rendered, and/OAR has been
the more recent focus of sound composer Dale Lloyd, and
is devoted to releasing field recordings and electroacoustic
compositions.
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Toby
Paddock
Sound tinkering; field recording; connecting things to
other things; idle speculation about projects that never
get done; contact mics; old test equipment; unable to
play even one song on any instrument; 60Hz drones and
harmonics; using equipment that is cheap and wrong; impractical
controllers for analog synthesizers; magnetic fields;
randomness; music for oscilloscopes; unstable systems;
having fun with the process and results - if any - are
a bonus.
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R.S.
Pearson
A post-industrial and often pleasant
musical surrealism, getting outside of the normal forms
of music while still often remaining in tonal and harmonic
scales.
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Paul
Rubenstein
Paul Rubenstein creates a wide variety
of music, ranging from "world music" (mainly Arabic and
Indian) to "way-out, experimental" sounds to rock, with
elements of all kinds of other things. Paul plays traditional
instruments including oud, rebab, guitar, and also his
own creations such as the ubertar, m'birangi, electric
saron, and mechanical monk. He is best known for his work
in "world music" duet Bakshish, and is currently attending
Bard College for an MA in "music-as-art", while pursuing
a career creating scores for film and video, as well as
other musical projects.
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sugarglider
Formerly of the duo Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, sugarglider
is a pseudo-solo music project that seeks to collaborate
with anything it can get its hands on. Taking samples
from movies, found tapes, discovered sounds, self/other-created
music parts, and love, sugarglider attempts to (re)create
a little bit of something out of everything. The final
product ranges from the absurdly perverse to a sweatheart
you'd be proud to take home to mom.
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TCOR
TCOR music is elastic rhythmic eclectic
electric ... one ear on techno's derivatives, one ear
in an asynchronous neonic journey through the Orion Nebula.
Lately the music plays with the sequencing of cut-paste-and-mutilate
sound collages. Who knows what strange attractor it'll
follow next?
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xaxis
wye
xaxis wye is the moniker of Jeff Mueller,
a northwest native. Beginning in 1996, he began combining
improvisational synthesizer and sound collage with meditation
and chant inspired by eastern philosophy. Drawing from
many genres, xaxis wye continuously evolves into a medium
for new fusions of sound, echoing both the cutting edge
sonics of modern beat music and the natural ambiance of
nature and man.
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XISIX
XISIX is wastelander glitch elektron circuit mutation
hoodoo. After shadow monkey died, I + I + I transgressed
with passion. Killed ravens + spooks with my purity of
essence. Caressed crowd's broken hearts with non-linear
sounds + images. Arribe jah double Dutch murderer.
Let
romance thrive.
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