Artist description Dissociate is a minimalist noise project meant to be simple, yet fun. All songs are written using loop-based songwriting. What is this, you ask? The setup: an Ensoniq ASR-X sampler serves as the MIDI brain. A Korg ER-1 drum synth and EA-1 synth module are slaved to the X. Ten channels of audio are sent from the sampler to a Mackie 1402 mixing console. Four total channels are sent from the Korg modules. Each channel has different loops consiting of various noises, rhythms, melodic bits. By virtue of tweaking faders on the mixer, a song is arranged in realtime thus juxtaposing an element of randomness against the rigidity of the loops.

Music Style Minimalist, rhthmic noise with occasional trance elements

Musical Influences Bowie, Noise, the Cure, Tom Waits, Trance

Similar Artists Monolith, Gridlock, Hypnoskull

Artist History Dissociate began in June of 2001 solely to play one gig @ CONvergence, a Twin Cities area sci-fi convention. With only three weeks to create a set, Jonathan Ford created 7 minimalist noise pieces, and thus Dissociate. Prior to Dissociate, Jonathan played guitar and programmed drums for Dies Irae !US, a dark-pop outfit in Minneapolis. The group apexed in May of 1999 performing the main stage at 8. Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany. After disbanding that year, DI alumns Jonathan and Benjamin Bacon briefly worked on a project called Animadversion. The duo recorded several rough demos at home prior to Benjamin's departure from the Twin Cities. Jonathan has been a freelance theatrical sound designer since 1998 and has recently graduated from the University of Minnesota. He has served as co-host of a radio program entitled "The Descent" on 770 Radio K since 1997. Jonathan is currently living in Minneapolis.

Group Members Jonathan Ford - sound design, sequencing, live arrangements, etc etc etc

Location Minneapolis, Mn - USA

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).