Artist description 1.Free improvisation working within a minimalist and sometimes serialist framework. A belief in the ability to listen into sounds rather than the mastering and domination of them. Where many would place an emphasis on virtuosity I have a preference for chance, for the absolution of identity in music, post modern reflexivity and critical theory that operates as functioning realized musical form rather than mere intellectual banter. 2. The act of musical discovery and intuition that exists along with the working out of socio-political-historical referents. This emerges through an attention to the functioning of all artistic mediums in relation to the institutions and processes from which they emerge. 3. Gestural music in the vane of gestural painting and poetry, materiality of sound, and the recognition of its ontology. This is less a manifesto and more of a meta-musical strategy...

Music Style Experimental

Musical Influences Harry Smith and the American Folk Anthology. Objectivist Poetics: Zukofsky, Oppen, Niedecker. Structuralist filmmaking: Snow, Frampton, Conrad. Semiotic Theory : Peirce, Barthes, Lacan. Godard. Delueze and Guarttari. Jack Spicer. Raymond Roussel. Duchamp. Borges. Brecht. Beckett. Burroughs. Cy Twombly. Jack Smith. Medieval surgery. Antonin Artaud. Su Tung-p'o. Tarkovsky. Dreyer. Japanese New Wave: Oshima Nagisa, Masumura Yasuzo, Suzuki Seijin. Herzog. Fassbinder. Bresson.

Similar Artists John Cage, AMM, Ralph Haxton, Tony Conrad, Morton Feldman, Evan Parker, Luc Ferrari, Phill Niblock, Company, Iannis Xenakis, Anthony Braxton, Albert Ayler, Bernhard Gunter, Captain Beefheart, Ives

Artist History "History is like music: entirely in the present" --Tony Conrad

Group Members This music is the property of no person. Unnameble

Albums idee fixe, also see seagull tapes

Location Santa Cruz, Ca - USA

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