Artist description Electroacoustic improv and low-budget performance art. Screeching ambience and raucous lullabies.

Music Style Experimental

Musical Influences Negativland, Laurie Anderson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Daevid Allen

Similar Artists The Residents, Coil, Laurie Anderson

Artist History Jim Speer of folk-rock band Broadside Electric joined experimentalist Mike Ciul in 1995. The pair named themselves Unsound and Mike became Cap'n Mikee. Broadside Electric's fiddler Helene Zisook collaborated for about a year, in which the trio created vignettes of "low-budget performance art." Mike and Jim produced A Nautical Tale, a performance involving story, slides, music, and food, and three new performers. Vocalists Heather Batson and Jessie Bennett became permanent members, and mind-control maven Mike Benedetti put in a guest appearance. Unsound is working on a sequel to A Nautical Tale.

Group Members Mike Ciul, Jim Speer, Heather Batson and Jessie Bennett

Instruments Feedback, samples, loops, shahnai, kalimba, doumbek, jaw harp, toys, and vocals

Albums Machine, From Year One

Location Philadelphia, PA - USA

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