Artist description there is so much rigidity and repetition in music of all kinds, probably more today than ever before, and with some patience and effort it's quite possible to write fluid, dangerous, thoughtful, wonderful music that escapes this tendency. i wish pop music had more to do with composition--with creative effort being put into the structure of the music, not gimmicky surface tricks; i think mfd is one way this can happen, and i hope it can inspire others to happen too. i have enjoyed writing & recording this music; i hope you will enjoy listening to it.

Music Style a fluid and compositional approach to folk music

Musical Influences 20th century classical music, especially schnittke, xenakis, reich, serial music; fusion when it was still good (mahavishnu orchestra, weather report, etc); electroacoustic & psychoacoustic music and its many "flavors," especially karkowski, marchetti, rsundin, hafler trio; minimal electronics, ala mego, raster-noton; funk, soul; folk music of many kinds; dark/dread/death ambient; many, many more...

Artist History 1999--i started recording music under the name "mfd," after a few years of playing in odd industrial and pop bands. i was trying to manipulate some of the styles of industrial music that're most popular in that scene in ways that would irritate their fans; the idea was to show that that "scene" was as insular and conservative as the pop milieu(s) it claimed to be more "innovative" than. i didn't promote it enough, and naturally no one cared. 2000--i was really into banality. i wrote a lot of music that satirized pop conventions by presenting them in the most overstated way. depressing. doppler effect records also stuck an mfd track (from 1999--"helplessrmx") on their "transcendence" compilation. i didn't promote it enough, and naturally no one cared. 2001--i was very burnt out on writing intentionally insincere music, and spent some time trying to separate tongue and cheek. i think it worked--most of the music on this page was recorded in 2001. some very earnest music, here; i've made the common attempt to try to keep it from being naive by maintaining some distance between myself and the "narrator" of these songs, while still saying something i think is insightful. i didn't promote it enough, and naturally no one cared. 2002--"joy one" (from late 2001) continues to fascinate me, and i still regard it as the best statement of mfd's "methods" so far. i've spent most of this year nervously preparing to start playing live shows; what little i've recorded in 2002 has been varied and strange and i haven't made it very public. i didn't promote it enough, and naturally no one cared--but now i recognize that this sense of shame (or maybe only fear) about mfd is something to be overcome, at least long enough to make these sounds more available. mfd! tell your friends.

Group Members andrew s.: recordings, composition.

Instruments all

Press Reviews http://www.popcontrol.com/noise/mr/mfd_6songcdr.shtml http://www.sonic-boom.com/transcendence/reviews.html "mute!" magazine interviewed me for one of their issues (#6, i think), but i never saw the final product. honestly, i don't remember what i even said; i'm afraid i probably gave some ruthlessly "rock-star" answers to their questions and really came off as an asshole. o well--at least they liked the music i was writing.

Location portland, oregon - USA

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