Artist description Twine is a live and studio improvisational electronic production unit.Twine incorporates multi-media visual work with seamless abstract electronic sounds.

Music Style Experimental, Abstract, Electronic, Environmental, Post-Techno...DSP/IDM

Musical Influences Autechre, Oval, Ryoji Ikeda, Panasonic, Brian Eno, Mego, Etc...

Artist History Twine has played everything from warehouse raves and art galleries to outdoor festivals. . .

Group Members Twine is Greg Malcolm and Chad Mossholder

Instruments Various digital and analog electronics . . .

Albums Debut album :Reference:, Remix project with fellow artist Horchata entitled :Resource: Immediate Action series 12" vinyl on Hefty Records, Twine artist series loop cd-rom for Sonic Foundry's ACID PRO 2.0 music sequencing program entitled :Twine Components:...a full-length on Hefty Records, and an LP on Komplott Records entitled :Circulation:, two tracks on the upcoming Bip-Hop Generation4 and a full-length on Bip-Hop this fall, and other releases soon...stay tuned.

Press Reviews A Delicious Part of Your Balanced Audio Diet. by David Morris 6.24.2000...Twine are masters of a seemingly impossible task, a synthesis of sonic experimentation and rhythmic architecture that is entrancing and unique. They are most easily categorized as electronic musicians, sharing the minimal, atmospheric warmth of Autechre and Plaid, but they mix into this an unprecedented dedication to the abstract and experimental. This is evident in their dark, sparse approach and their use of unusual sound sources, including a seemingly infinite palette of static. It is from this foundation that they catapult themselves into a supremely rarified realm—they make adventurous, forward-looking music that is supremely listenable.This is not experimentation for its own sake. Twine have harvested the fruits of figures such as John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlhienz Stockhausen and shown us that they are delicious. By bringing their forefather’s preoccupation with pure sound into the age of digital high fidelity, Twine present an open and shut case for the sonic beauty we encounter in our everyday lives, from the charm of a creaking door to the seduction of a warmly humming air conditioner.Their motivations are most evident when they leave behind the constraints of rhythm for a purely abstract piece like "Voices",which samples the speech of experimental composers, cuts them apart, repeating phrases out of context until they no longer have meaning. Extracted fragments become pure sound, as tiny clicks and gentle drones fill out a hypnotic, sleepy, but distinctly unfamiliar territory.On more (relatively) standard tracks, such as "One",Twine display the sublime interaction between sound and rhythm, of which they show an equally deft comprehension of. It is complex, almost frantic, building bit by bit until we are hearing what should be a hard jungle rhythm. Somehow, though, the replacement of flat, hard tones with warm oscillations and buzzes transforms the beat from a head-crack to a massage. The stuttering bass sounds more like a purring kitten than a jackhammer, and the ghostly melody sweeps across the stereoscape like a narcotic."Sloped", a far more relaxed journey, with gentle droning bass underneath delicate, echoing melody. The true Twine touch, though, comes with the gauzy overlay of tiny clicks that swarm and shift like grasshoppers, and the haunting, warmly distorted vocal samples. This track and many more by Twine are almost too great to convey. This is headphone music, a trip to a realm where beauty and discomfort collide and become one. The sounds of Twine are not easily categorized or described, but no-one with an open mind or pleasure-deprived ear-hole can afford to pass up this part of their balanced audio diet.

Additional Info As MP3.com is now taking advantage of the artists that make it possible for MP3.com to exist, By requiring artists to pay to post their original music at the site in order to receive special privelages. Twine will be removing their material from MP3.com. The tracks will be available at Twine's New Home page in a few weeks http://www.twinesound.com

Location Cleveland and Boulder, OH/CO - 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).