| Ron Gittens uses AM/FM radio and a battery of effect-pedals to engineer static swirls and atonal fluorescent drones. He has performed as a vocalist and guitarist with cul de sac, the pretty flowers, and black arkateks, and has also been performing solo electronics under the name foreign auto body. | James Siegel plays scrap percussion and triggers sound samples that float, ring and scrape. He also takes photographs that are both abstract and honest, like his performances. If music be the food of love, James is a fucking cuisinart, coaxing binary rhythms and morse code signals from urban waste product, a mad metallurgist in a paradise of trash. He has played drums with the peer group and currently performs scrap percussion/samples/slides as scrapazoid. | Michael Mcquilkin plays prepared synths and deconstructs mpeg sound samples, subverting his own creations in real time. Favoring chill Nordic atmospheres and liquid digital gurgles, Michael offsets these sounds with agressive spontaneous remixing and a battery of effects. Michael plays keyboards in the band is it jazz? and also preforms under the name rhom statik in his pick-up electronic group esotronica. |
| Peter Foti makes devices. His creations are chaos engines, sometimes fashioned from thrift-store discoveries [electronic toys] whose original funtions are subverted by bending or changing its circuitry. He also builds soundmakers from scratch, incorporating frequency generators, filters, and other goodies into custom-made mindfuck machines. He records under the name baragon, using found and self generated sounds to create eerie and beautiful lovecraftian landscapes. | Jason Wentworth is a turntablist who combines old-school hip hop etiquette with a joyful deconstructionist aesthetic, performing 1.5 gram needle surgeries on his stable of recordshop rarities and thrift-store vinyl. He records under the name random happenstance in the baroque hip hop groupthe brothers happenstance and performs as dj intheintercessor with esotronica | Richard Wentworth uses analog frequency generators, tape echo and ring modulation to create walls of tone that swell and throb. He has performed as guitarist/vocalist with bald guys, as keyboard/guitarist with the peer group. He also records solo freq-beat under the name frolik happenstance and with his brother Jason in the brothers happenstance . |
