Artist description what is rebreather?Abrasive, sparse, ethereal, abrupt, and wistful, rebreather (Alex Keller and Christopher DeLaurenti) improvise live electronic music from the digital glossolalia of sabotaged consumer electronics, homebrew circuits, and obsolete devices.Basking in the added danger of live electronics, rebreather probes the frontiers of free improvisation. Only in live, free improvised electronic music can something go totally wrong and compel the players to battle their instruments from second to second, minute by minute. rebreather‚s goal is to coax and exhume whichever sounds we find, then fuse them into a sonic conversation of shared solos, duets and, of course, silences.what does rebreather sound like?Perforating silence with sudden blips, shards and blocs of sound rebreather slowly populates a quiet sonic savanna into a twittering teeming jungle. rebreather is musical and not entirely alien, but its range of dynamics, conversational construction, and unusual sound textures make it unique.

Music Style experimental, improvised, out, noisy (not noise)

Musical Influences 20th century classical, avant-garde, noise,

Similar Artists AM radio in between bands, vibrating Ben-Wa egg, corroded Speak-n-Spells

Artist History selected previous performancesJune 1999SoniCabal showcase, ArtsEdge September 1999rebreather with Outland, the Rendezvous October 1999rebreather goes octaphonic, Mr. Spot's Chai House November 1999Resonant/Circuit series, Zeitgeist Café December 1999Voices, Drones, Pulse, and Tones, the Mercury February, 2000rebreather goes octaphonic, Seattle Art Museum April, 2000Earshot Jazz Voice & Vision, On the Boards

Group Members Alex Keller and Christopher DeLaurenti

Instruments homemade and cracked electronics: turntables, modified CDs, toys, walkmen, light effects, mixers by Mackieelectronics

Albums rebreather (Partial Records)

Press Reviews 'sonic beauty and terror for the cocktail hour' - Seattle Weekly

Location Seattle, WA - USA

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