Artist description Malium's work ranges from tapes and synths to samplers, guitar, bass, keyboards and percussion. A self-taught anti-musician with a passion for embracing the primitive child embracing sound as textures and environment rather than seeking to be a virtuoso.

Music Style experimental/electronic

Musical Influences Eno, Laswell, Hassell, Frith, Fripp, jazz, ethnic, punk, space rock

Similar Artists Eno, Fripp, Frith, Cluster

Artist History Around 1977 my world exploded musically into punk, new wave, jazz, progressive rock, ethnic, electronic and avant-garde music simultaneously. Eno was a major inspiration as I headed into an electronic music lab circa 1984 using one of the first Moog modular synths ever built and I quickly got into tape loops and efx and looping pre-sampler with a sample and hold digital delay. A short stint in a bottom-40 cover band led me into years of reclusive solo work, rarely sharing or releasing the results of musical experiments dating back to 1980. In the early 90's I began to embrace collaboration again and hosted a series of "one night band" improvisations in my store-front loft in Berkeley and hacked out some work with small ensemble recordings that I manipluated urther with overdubs. Since childhood I've also had an interest in environmental recordings and have gotten into processing those since 1982. I tend to work in spurts, often parking my musical interests for a few years then reviving them with a new perspective and exploring further.

Group Members Malium is occasionlly accompanied by John Fabiani, Jesse Cushman and assorted others on various projects but primarily works alone.

Instruments bass, guitar, synths, tapes, samples, processing equipment, computers, environmental recordings, dumbeks, bells, assorted percussion.

Albums Haggis One, Memory Overflow, Mal's One Night Bands

Press Reviews Exposure Magazine (www.exposure.org) has a review of an early CD circa 1997.

Location Kernersville, NC - USA

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