Music Style gummo with joshua trees

Musical Influences Standing in a place's and listening to places, spaces and conductors [not what you may think I mean.] whether it be filled with activities of various creatures, or a field with only wind and grass, there is always something to be listened to. Some people have never heard the sound of their own mind. Tangents. How multi-directional noises can calm it self into the sounds of Silence. [Some place's never become quiet.] Wind in most places is the conductor. Listening to energy move through a room and how it creates pops and snaps in various objects, which are 2 things, your thoughts/voice being answered and the living and or the dead communicating with you from afar or near. [ I am putting together a recording of this but it will be quite awhile, before it is finished.] as a child my inspiration came from bieng left to myself to inspect my suroundings like electrical wires humming [which i am sure is not good for my health] when my parents and I would drive somewhere and we would pass under wires while listening to the radio and hearing the radio shift into statics was a definant help. The droning of water & insects i find to be very similar, I often wonder if they sing to each other or are just another example of learning from observing. Listening to trees sway, creak; leaves falling i find to be uh audiovisual plus. And the mating habits of various living species. people/guides/artists not in any order just people in a similar line who have made an impact on me in one way or another: Jim O'rourke, Sergei Parajanov . Tony Conrad . Andrei Tarkovsky .Tom Waits . Sergei Parajanov . Ingmar Bergman .William S. Burroughs . John Fahey . Robert Bresson .Leonard Cohen . Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds . Brian Wilson's Beach Boys . Gastr Del Sol . Werner Herzog. Oval . Keith Rowe . Sonic Youth . Jerome Noetiner . Lionel Marchetti . Fennesz . Phill Niblock . Arnold Dreyblatt and The Orchestra of Excited Strings . Charlemagne Palestine . Haco . Captain Beefheart and his/the Magic Band .The Birthday Party . The Velvet Underground . Radiohead . Cannibal Ox. Steve Roden . In be tween noise . Fennesz . El-P . Ornette Coleman . Faust . RLW . Taku Sugimoto . Aseop Rock . Pauline Oliveros . Luc Ferarri . Hoppy Kamiyama .AMM . Pita . SYR .Tetsu Inoue . Kevin Drumm . Bryan Day / Sistrum . Sun Ra. Mic Turner . Keiji Heino . Harmony Korine. Mats Gustafsson . Lee Ranaldo .Will Oldham . Mr. Lif. David Grubbs . John Cale . Will S. .Carl Stone . Loren MazzaCane Connors . Sachiko M . Dziga Vertov . Otomo Yoshihide . Antonin Artaud .The Box Head Ensemble .Arnoux . Francisco López .The Red Krayola Van Dyke Parks . Charles Ives . Eliane Radigue . noto .Paul Panhuysen . Cecil Taylor . . Nobukazu Takemura . Nakumura Toshimaru . After Dinner . John Coltrane . Yu Nishibori . Taylor Deupree . Stereolab . Lou Gare . Merzbow . Orton Socket . Annette Krebs Jorge Castro . . Das Torpedoes. Anthony Braxton . Dirty Three . Warren Ellis . . Chicago Underground Duo . Koji Asano . Sven-Aki Johansson . Pharoah Sanders . Pan Sonic . Iku Mori . . NOTO . Voice Crack . Kim Cascone . Eddie Prevost . . Alvin Lucier . Alan Lamb . Jim White . Micheal Snow . Butch Morris . Robert Wilson . Bernhard Gunter . Aki Tsuyuko . Naturaliste . Rob Mazurek . Richard Teitelbaum . Chad Taylor . US Maple . John Zorn Carl Michael Von Hausswolff . Poire Z. Sapat. Hermann Nitsch . Dajuin Yao . Cock ESP . Harry Partch . C.C.C.C . Demitrio Stratos . Evan Parker . Cornelius Cardew . Onnyk . Charlie Hadyn . Yamantaka Eye . Atoms . John Bischoff . Khoury/Shearer/Hall . Califone . Tortoise . Stephen Prina . Senor Coconut . Kangaroo Paw . . DCNY . Boredoms . .Landon Thorpe . Robert Ashley . Micheal Snow .. People Like Us . Samuel Beckett . Tupac Shakur . Alice Coltrane . Mark Rothko Morton Feldman . Harry Smith . Ernesto Diaz-Infante . . P16.D4 . Axel Droner . Mr. Len. Conrad Schnitzler .Cotton Museum . KK Null . Ravi Shankar . Alan Licht . Jean-Luc Godard . fushitsusha . Derek Bailey . Scott Walker . Dr. Dre . Chicks On Speed. Fred Anderson . White Out . Ffej. Negativeland . bastardnoise. Mack 10 . . Atom Heart .. mika vainio . ryoji ikeda . .eX-Girl . Gaji . Trans Am . Tomato A Day . Henry Kaiser . . Nick Drake . Lounge Lizards .David Berhman . . Dorothea Tanning . Max Ernst . John Cage . Steve Lacey . Page 27 . Gavin Bryars . scanner . Maurizio Bianchi . The Bubbleman . Brandon LaBelle . John Hudak . Chris Forsyth . The Circle Trio . .. Bob Ostertag . Masada . Gordon Mumma . Marc Ribot . Ryoji Ikeda . Carrier Band . Nels Cline . Ardabus Rubber . Smog . Steve Albini . Roman Polanski . Mouse on Mars. Rachels . White House . Lorenzo's Tractor . In Ether. Nirvana : . Red Red Meat . Reynols . Loftus . Steve Reich . Judy Dunaway . Micheal Nyman . John Lurie .. Arto Lindsay . Lambchop. Eminem Angelo Badalamenti/David Lynch/John Neff . THE DUSTMITE. Newton .Westside Connection . Phillip Glass . Luis Bunuel . Ali Akbar Khan . Tan as Fuck. Scanner . 16 Bitch Pile Up. . Ice Cube . Phillip Gleb. Terry Riley . . ) Stroke hausen and Autobahn.thankfully it is allways expanding Cause there is so much i haven't heard and am allways looking for more, also i would like to say this isn't a list of name dropping, it's a guide for those intrested in different forms of sound making, you'll enjoy what i listed if you haven't experinced allready..

Similar Artists Jim O'Rourke.Oval.Pita.FennO'berg.Tetsu Inoue.Aki Tsuyko.RLW.El-P.Gastr Del Sol.Faust.John Cage Fahey Zorn.Steve Roden.Nobukazu Takemura.Merzbow.Negativeland.Tortoise.Ryoji Ikeda.

Artist History [i call this the really brief history VER. 201]Born Everett, Washington. left when i was 2. Moved down to southern california, i Grew up in the same desert hole outside of lost angeles that captain beefheart grew up in.wandered around, circles for awhile or was it un oval? my mother was in and out of mental hostpitels, this occoured after her father death and was also the result of sexual and pyshical abuse from family members and the building of frustration when she told her own mother and she denied it, and also other fuchs that have not helped her it gets worse and worse trying to relate or love others, i hate this human trait. my father having to work and my mother was in the hostpital i wasn't able to be watched, so i was stuck in foster homes for year cause my dad listened to my mom's quack [dr. pilli- hows that for irony}[that is how his name is said not spelt:] ] , like kurosawa said of a quack that crossed him, " i'd love to shoove pine needles into his throat" , i got out but was not the same,we lived in a roach infested hotel after my dad was layed off from rockwell/boieng and he gambled the rest away in las vegas. this was on account to desert storm, [thanks BuShit] my dad frantic and stuggling had a heartattack,and had triple bi-pass surgrey. i got hooked on drugs, lost alot things, people, comprehansion and will.. moved to washington, got them back slightly., came back to southern california, watched my mother gets worse, then she was hit by a car and died from her ribs puncturing her lungs everyone of vertabrae was broken and head trauma, the woman who hit her cept driving and was pulled over, she has become a born again christian and i do believe she was not paying attention, but i forgave her though i wish she hadn't become born again,and i can say well every one pays for what they do [directly and indirectly]. [what did my mother have to pay for???why did she have to die??? i believe freedom is a form of payment for those who have suffered for many years.] and i believe my actions also contributed to my mothers death it was in part to my mistreatment,neglect and resentment to her , for who she was. and that was troubled and the wrong people used her for thier own diseased reasons, she has never been loved properly i supose except for me, before i became lost myself growing up in this burning world, i did and do love her, i just couldn't help her cause she wouldn't listen to me she believed the nonsense that doctors and other people in or around mental hostpitals told her. well upon hearing of her death i fell apart, and now i have pieced my self as much as i can ... back together...2 1/2 years later. i have made what i have made for reason i deeply believe in. and you may think i am way too personal but everything i have had to live though is in and what my art is made of.

Group Members Human Abstract was Davis James.:.Dylan Shearer.:.Les Hodgkins.:.Mike Wilson.:.Colleen Russel.:.Shaun Russel.:.Kiowa Hammons.:.Eden Pitchman.:. komafuzz .:.Justin Baker.:.Jody.:.members vary at shows and on albums.

Instruments all sorts of shit.

Albums too many already.

Press Reviews "All Lies! All Lies! it is ALL. " JEAN-LUC GODARD . MY Review of the press:the associated press is the government. Look at your local newspaper and think about it. Here are some Emails That Listeners from other spaces they fill in other places on earth.And other mp3.com Artists. __________________________________________________ James, I know you are on the road as of now but I am inspired to give you an initial response to your new songs regardless. (Pretzles for W Jr. on his b-day and ruby glass factory). There is a dynamism with melody in relation to abrasion that you are developing to precision with these recordings, especially the "pretzles" piece. It has the pervasive nuance of drapes as they are bellowed out into a room and then sucked sharpley back against a window. It is down right eerie comrade. What I think you have really nailed in this recording is the transpositional, synesthetic cyborg reality of the way the electrical and mechanical can meld and manipulate the organic or acoustic. This is something that no doubt is a major preoccupation, whether unconscious or not, (or perhaps at this point I am just giving an interpretation) but the way you like to put emphasis on the interaction of kinetic, charged, electrically based technology that pervades our environment with the organic material of human grey matter. Or to go beyond that, the status of the human nervous system in general as it is interfaced with the appliance, the common domestic tool (which extends all the way from the refrigerator to the television and computer) and how those interact fetishistically within the human organism and further the human psyche. From here we may talk about emotion as it is tied into the highly electric system known as the nervous system: the tingling of the spine, the head rush, and even the erection. How our sense of pleasure, desire and sustenance become intimately intertwined with a mechanised domestic realm to a point of hyper sensitivity, ESP, and of course the paranormal; paranormal being essential in this understanding because the way that you choose to exercise the concept is transgressive of the real and of the "normal". This is where it all becomes political as well, whether we take all of this as analogy or experience, what is apparent is an eccentric methodology that has self theorized its aesthetic. Through this self theorizing you have denaturalised the presence of the organic and made it frightening. This is done is through deconstructing the aural binary between those sounds which are natural and those which are commonly regarded as natural. You are continuing a project that is underway in the music of many electroacoustic performers, one that immediately comes to mind is David Tutor and his neuron/synapse pieces (I am forgetting the exact title right now), as well as Gunter, Wehowsky and Marchetti, but whether they have the political self awareness that you have is questionable. I like the allusion to Herzog's Heart of Glass because in that film he completely denaturalizes the human gesture, pose, manner of speaking, and _expression. Once the inherent artifice in so called "reality" is layed bare, perhaps then we will all discover and locate ourselves within the actual pervasive and humming mechanism and take action to make George see the salt on his own pretzle so that his heart will freeze, his factories on fire and his cabinent running to the shoreline frantic with the hurdy gurdies playing on the air. When the goose is left to its own devices will we be the unshakeable card players? Love, Leslie _________________________________________________________________ here is the question; is art an immitation of life, or is life an immitation of art? if the first is true, then we can only assume the world is riddled with dualities of positive and negative, light and dark, quality and quantity. if the latter is true, it has been artists that have shaped the course of civilization and culture since the dawn of expression. in either case, the artist must attain a balance between self and medium. at some point the artist must be his art and his art must be him. i am grateful that we live in a world where artists may not be the first to complain, but are definately the first to do something about making things better. when you defy the conventions of the times, you create your own times. now should most definately be the time of human abstract. there is a subtle, brutal honesty in his work that demands not only to be heard but to be FELT. as for the first question, only the audience may decide their own answers. peace/ CHA-RUZU;the plastic lotus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hiya james, Just writing to speak in words (a sort of symbolic tongue in cheek). Please excuse the incoherence, but its past my usual bedtime and saki intake. I listened to the cd medley/care package that you gave me (sorry for the flake out). Overall some very exceptional stuff! Really dug the Captain/Waits sound. There seemed to be a lot of humor and self-analysis going on in the lyrics, and the looped collage effect really captured that beefart flavor. Sounds that stuck out were "Make you believe you started now" which seemed particularly "trippy", and "escape from Av". "Escape..." was off the wall, really loud and sort of hit me like a fazor on stun (the bonus talking samples gave me that indie-rock-in-crowd-head-rush). I also liked what you did with our improve pow wow. Much more percussive then I remembered...but I really like how the reeds blend in and out. I wish that your guitar was more audible throughout the entire piece, but it seems that your playing mingles with the looped percussion, which adds and camoflauges it quite nicely. I think I would like to compare your surgeons touch with the original tapes, or maybe play them both at the same time (ala Ornettes double quartet). Love the choice of title by the way. Finally, the final piece on your sampler platter is quite beautiful. The sound captures that moment between restlessness and comatose (which covers a lot of ground). Very Steve Roden like... but hey, art is in essence a homage to what got us out of bed (unless of course you record in bed). I really hope to hear more. I'll be passing your disc along to tim and corbin soon. Again, kudos and two snaps up! Love kiowa (he loves you) ------------------------------------------- Very personal and effective self expression. Some very nice guitar work, and a refreshing lack of overt polish. Non-rushed... giving the material time to develop on it's own terms. Glad to see you're still making music James. -Joel Justice- ------------------------------------------------------------------- hey, we met in that shitty "Indie Rack" chat room. so i look here not knowing what to expect, but i am very happy with the outcome, your art has the power to change to course of human progression (potentially). But, lets not get ahead of ourselves. if i can figure out how to send my paintings online i will do it. thanks for talking to me! keep in touch! long live agent Dale Cooper, but only if Bob isnt with him. valerie may lantz --------------------------------------------------------- This is Robert your friend in the UK. I have not forgotten our conversations from way back still, and would like very much to continue reviewing your work. I have listened extensively to Elemental Drive. In addition, I have been listening to Paert, Messaien, Kraftwerk, Radiohead and pieces by the Rock of Travolta and 5uu's. It's still me! Have you heard Amnesiac yet? I heard Pulk and Spinning Plates and thought of you. Spinning plates is a masterpiece. Mail me back! I have another short clip, better than the last in my opinion, which i made from me singing, humming, clicking my tongue and hitting a piano lid very hard! Ah, the resources we have to put up with, eh? LOL In addition, I have some pictures I drew, dunno how you are on art though. Stay creative, eagerly awaiting your reply. Robert :-) -------------------------------------------------- hey james, This is Devin from Big Valley Music. i just went to the website and listened to your stuff. I must there was some stuff that kind of threw me off a little at first but i non the less really liked it. one track that really sticks out for me was the elemental drive's which had the voice all phased out and distorted. i thought that was bad ass. anyway let me know when you put more stuff up there so i can check it out. later, devin ---------------------------------------------------- "System Syn" Hey... I just listened to your new music. It's pretty trippy. It really puts you in another place. love'n like jesus, Sytem Syn/Static. ------------------------------------------------------ Hi James-- Thank you so much for your kind words/thoughts regarding my music. It means alot to me to be able to reach somebody in the ways you desribed. Having checked out your site and stations I am AMAZED at the depth and breadth of your music and tastes! There's alot there to take in, but you definitely turned me on to a bunch of new stuff... and that's what it's all about I think. I'll definitely keep you posted re: playing in LA or even up here. I'm trying to be more diligent re: my calendar section. Anyway, take care and keep in touch! Jeffrey Luck Lucas [mp3.com Artist] -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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