Artist description model 563 is the solo outlet of one man...with aheavy influence of early avant garde and new experimental...anything is possible, from barely audible electronic soundscapes, to hard ethnictechno, to a combination of fingerpicked guitarand concrete style electronics...he is also proneto using unothodox items as instruments and building his own devices

Music Style highly variable

Musical Influences john cage, jim o'rourke, morton subotnik, merzbow

Artist History first releases were under the name thisskinmachinearound 1993 and were mostly noise based rythmicsculptures on tape...after a move out west, some aging and exploring a change was necessary...thusmodel 563 (the name was taken from his first oscillator) and the music got a lot more varied

Group Members one

Instruments anything and everything...found pieces of cassette tape, guitars, computer, morphology simulator (medical equip.), oscillators, shortwaves, springs, plastic tubes, and on and on and on

Albums as parasite is to host (split w/ thisskinmachine), centaurus a, even the flies were wary, bourdoned (soon)

Press Reviews "Old devices never thought musical, and since found obsolete, find their unique voices brought ahead of their utilitarian intent. Oscillators, shortwaves, and medical test equipment are the instruments, with oftentimes unreliable characters. Thumps, buzzes, squeals, and pure tones are pieced together to form physically absorbing soundscapes." - Strategic Improv Labratories 2000"Model 563 lets you into his world. His playing could command a free and piercing (yet musical) performance or a strict and soothing experience not to be felt elsewhere. Ever." - Thier Own Devices concert series

Location seattle, wa - USA

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