Artist description One man, one mission. On the road of life, there are conformists, and there are divergents. Divergency yields to nothing, and to extract from it the intensity of pure love is my goal.

Music Style Electronic, Experimental, Illbient

Musical Influences Aphex Twin, Bill Laswell, To Rococo Rot, Air, Bjork, Beherit, Faze Action, Folk Implosion, DJ Food, Plastikman (Richie Hawtin), Eric Satie, King Crimson, DJ Shadow, DJ Spooky, DJ Tron, Daft Punk, Legion, Terre Thaemlitz, Roni Size (Reprazent), Erib B. and Rakim, KRS-One

Similar Artists Plastikman, Marschmellow, Automaton

Artist History "I had a hundred reels of tape filled with nothing but sound effects. Then I selected those that you hear on the film's sound track. For me, that is true music, the music that can be adapted to images. Conventional music only rarely melts into the image; more often it does nothing but put the spectator to sleep..." - Michelangelo Antonioni My work in the field of electronic audio finds it's roots in the curiosity and explorative nature of my youth. As soon as I got my first electronic keyboard when I was a little boy, I began creating my own music and recording it on cassette tapes. I made my own radio programs and my own songs. This developed further as I gathered home-made and improvised musical instruments in my adolescence and continued to make tapes. As a teenager I joined my brother and a friend of his as a drummer to form a punk band called "Pols Voice" (after the Ninten. Our first and last public show was at the former english pub/rock venue "Churchill's" which at one time resided in Little Haiti, Florida, but was sold by its owner and now has it's only homogenized relative existing somewhere in Dania. My brother and I had previously collaborated on many tapes, him playing lead guitar and myself doing everything from playing drums, keyboards and bongos to turntables and drum machines processed through multiple guitar effects pedals. Soon, I also became partnered with Dacarlo McCormick, a friend of my brother's who played the bass and who was heavily influenced by Norwegian death metal and dark ambient music. We formed another band, though nameless, and created several very intense tracks. Once in college I was in access to a wide array of more professional recording equipment. By this time, I had already focused my efforts in using the computer as a medium of electronic music. Because I already had some ideas sketched out, I began working on what was to be my first album within two months of my first semester of college. By the end of the second, I'd finished Entropy and had learned quite a bit about digital multitrack recording. My second album, Tariquah Obscura, was finished at the end of my second year, May of 1999. Decompression Trauma, my thrid album, was started in 2000 but not completed until August of 2002. I'm still making plans to distribute my work, as of late only a few core people have heard any of my current records. I have made a few contacts with small, electronic labels local to L.A., but there's nothing conrete, yet. When copies are definitely available, I'll make it known here on this and my main website.

Group Members Alex Travanti

Instruments ARP 2800, Oxygen 8, PowerBook G4, Deck, Reason, ReBirth, ProTools

Albums Entropy, Tariquah Obscura, Decompression Trauma and Chaotic Neutral

Location Los Angeles, California - USA

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