Fullerton, California, USA
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I am a bedroom musician of sorts, since it's not really my day job (unix sysadmin, high profile site, boring computer shit, etc).
My musical output is strange because I come from a weird musical upbringing as an opera singer, marching trumpet player, composition student, free improvisor and musicologist.
I love to spin house music and mix it up with broken beat funk, and knew house only from tacking myself to the foreskin of smaller underground clubs in chicago, where i even ended up as a resident dj and performance collaborator.
I've performed alongside some of the most accomplished musicians of my lifetime, and will never forget those moments as long as I live.
I live for improvisation.
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When I DJ, I play mostly vinyl. But I do burn digital tracks onto CD to throw into the mix. Some great stuff is simply too good to pass up.
I sequence studio tracks using Digital Performer and used to have a much more extensive hardware setup before I did a little life reset a couple of years back.
Otherwise, I perform live with various looping samplers, hardware fx, and an arsenal of toys and natural objects to sample while I improvise.
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Quantazelle + Craque
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Written July 05 2007 , Tags: quantazelle, craque, improvisation
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This recording is from Philip von Zweck's "Something Else" show on WLUW, Chicago back in 2002, a little bit before I left the midwest for LA.
It starts out with quantazelle and I doing free improv together for about 30 minutes or so. Then she drops off and I do a little solo excursion before closing out the set with a track from Jawbone called "Bell Jar."
I'm using an entire battery of soundmakers, loopers, hardware devices, toys, rocks, objects of other sound making qualities. Liz (if i remember correctly) had her laptop and was feeding samples into my system of looping and live sampling, while also coming through on their own channel.
I really enjoyed re-listening to this, I dug up the minidisc this week... I don't think I've even heard it in full since moving that year. It will appear in my craquecast sometime soon, but thought I would share with the em411 peeps first.
Hope you enjoy it! Yes, it's over an hour, so either sit on this page and listen, or download it here: link
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