Artist description Nux Vomica utilize sound processing, electronics, found sounds, and aural sculpture to achieve a unique and trance like sound environment. The sounds travel from peaceful to terrifying containing elements from the ethno-influenced to industrial and create a personal soundtrack for the individual listener.

Music Style Ambient

Musical Influences Zoviet France, Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Einsturzende Neubauten, Autechre, Cranioclast, Future Sound of London, Robert Fripp, John Cage, Vidna Obmana, Tetsu Inoue, Cranioclast, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream

Similar Artists Zoviet France, Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Einsturzende Neubauten, Autechre, Cranioclast, Future Sound of London, Robert Fripp, John Cage, Vidna Obmana, Cranioclast, Tetsu InoueVangelis, Tangerine Dream

Artist History Nux Vomica has involved themselves in the recording of at least 12 releases within the US and three available within Italy and Sweden and the U.K. Their pieces have appeared on over 30 experimental music compilations. They have contributed to sound tracks of films and have produced several experimental films themselves as part of their multi media performances. In 2001, Nux Vomica is beginning it's 12th year of sound art production as a team, in the Bay Area. The members of Nux Vomica have been long active members in the experimental music community within San Franciso and beyond. Alan Herrick's history within the Bay Area experimentalmusic community includes performing and recording with groups such as Santa Cruz's Big City Orchestre, Sense-Net, Concerto Infernal, Haters, Ultrasound, NU33.3X as well as founding and operating Auricular Media Design. Jenny Liang Herrick is the curator and manipulator of found sounds as well as the primary rhythmatist. It is her delicate blending of "dry" sounds with the synthesis and soundscapes created by the other members that offers a unique and other-worldy quality to the pieces. Evan Sorenstein began working with electronics in the band Q.E.D. in 1983, a duo with vocalist Christopher Evans. Evan continued to work on solo projects with film, and in 1985 began Stuff Bones Are Made Of with vocalist Katie McGee, and completed a 12 song album. In 1986, while attending Bennington College as an Electronic Music Major, he began scoring pieces for choreographer Eleanor Lynn and began collaborating with Shawn Brice in several performance art pieces involving music, dance, slides, film and video, and performed soundtracks for non-existing films. He continued to present solo work of several sound and video installations as well as a large scale suite for radio entitled "Wireless". Nux Vomica is a sound art musical trio based in San Francisco, California. The present members of Nux Vomica have been performing together, as a unit, for the past seven years. Each with a unique and active history within the experimental music field

Group Members Alan Herrick, Jenny Liang Herrick, Evan Sornstein

Instruments Found Sounds, Synthesis, Effects Processors, Intuition, Response

Albums Epiphany, Bythos, Casting a Dream to the Sea, Lines on the Island of Utopia, Augur, Spindal Alpha, Systematic Redux, Mercurial Rite, Tree of Alchemy, 47th Proposition, By Ethers Touch Made Fire, The Chemists Dream

Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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