August 2011
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July 2011
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PBK & Travis Johnson - Othering (from...
PBK Bio & Discography →
“I started to experiment with sound around 1986, but before that I was mainly preoccupied with visual arts theories. My interest in “gesture” and “subconscious” correlated to Surrealism(automatism) and Abstract Expressionism(spontaneous expression & improvisation) and I was motivated to apply these thoughts towards sound expression at least partially because...
Mark Spybey Discography →
Mark Spybey Biography →
Dead Voices on Air (DVOA) is Mark Spybey’s main musical project. It was formed in 1992 when he emigrated to Canada from his native England. Using improvisation and sound layering as a source for their music, DVOA blends processed sound from primitive instruments and toys into rhythmic structures or dark clusters of ambient sound. The result is music for the eyes. This is not ambient...
Travis Johnson Discography →
Travis Johnson Biography →
Travis Johnson, curator of Ilse, was born in 1979 and began experimenting with radios, tapes and open circuits as a child, inspired by the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop for Doctor Who and by the rural isolation of Suwannee County, Florida. He received training on the guitar as a teenager, but has never been much interested in conventional musical phrasing, preferring to explore the...