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Kneebody

Aaron Cohen - Downbeat "Kneebody Creating a New Language" At first, it seems that Kneebody chose a name that intentionally invited anonymity. After speaking to a couple members of the quintet, it becomes clear that they also took a firm stance against presenting a single bandleader. Equally crucial is that they wanted to invent a word that conveys no preconceived musical connotations. "It's a nonsense word that my girlfriend came up with," said saxophonist Ben Wendel. "We wanted a short, memorable word with a nondefinable genre connection.

Vitor Joaquim

Vitor Joaquim, laptop experimentalist, sound and visual artist, graduated in Sound and Film Directing, working now on a PhD on Computer Music, field of Science and Art Tecnology. Started performing improvised music and get involved in contemporary dance in the 80’s with Mark Haim at the CDLisbon and Coogan Dancers in Munich. Since then, he has been composing for dance, theatre, cinema, video, installations and multimedia, having worked with such collectives and creators as: M

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Michael Norris

Michael Norris is a Wellington-based composer. He holds composition degrees from Victoria University of Wellington and City University, London. He has held the positions of Composer-in-Residence with the Southern Sinfonia and the Mozart Fellowship, and currently lectures in composition at the New Zealand School of Music. In 2003, Michael won the Douglas Lilburn Prize, a nationwide competition for orchestral composers. He is also co-founder and co-director of Stroma New Music Ensemble.

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crook&flail

Crook&Flail is the partnership between Adam Drucker and Andrew Broder. The two came together in 2009 to score the soundtrack for Unearthing, an audio/visual project from Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins. It has been confirmed that Crook&Flail will also score the follow-up to Unearthing, entitled Earthing. A release date has yet to be set. The score for Unearthing excluding Crook&Flail features musicians Stuart Braithwaite, Justin Broadrick, George Cartwright, Matt Darling, Zach Hill, Paul Metzger, Mike Patton, Josh Granowski, Michael Lewis and mixing aid from Tom Herbers.

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Lustmord

Brian Williams is a British electronic musician often credited for creating the dark ambient genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord. Williams started recording as Lustmord in 1980 before joining SPK in 1982.
Lustmord has extracted field recordings made in crypts, caves, and slaughterhouses, and combined it with occasional ritualistic incantations and Tibetan horns. His treatments of acoustic phenomena encased in digitally expanded bass rumbles have a dark ambient quality.

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These Are Powers

These Are Powers are known for the dissonance of their early recordings, a cacophony of rhythms and industrial/electronic experiments that recalled Throbbing Gristle one moment, DNA the next. Their most recent album, "All Aboard Future", was released in February 2009. Exotic, abstract, hand-crafted sounds--made, found and electronically born. Some wail from Pat Noecker's prepared bass; others stem from the idiosyncratic vocal and guitar style of Anna Barie.

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Zammuto

Nick Zammuto is half of the band The Books. Zammuto is his solo project. He is currently working on a full length record to be released in early 2012. He is releasing working versions of the tracks as they are finished from zammutosound.com and his soundcloud page. The new tracks are titled: Yay, Groan Man Don't Cry, Idiom Wind, Too Late to Topologize, and FU-C3PO.
*The Books have released four LPs between 2002 and 2010: All are currently on the label Temporary Residence in NYC.

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Atau Tanaka

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Arca

There are three artists that record under the name Arca: 1) An experimental/glitch project of Nuuro, aka Alejandro Ghersi, a Venezuelan producer. His albums under the name Arca include: Stretch 1, Stretch 2 (released 2 giveaways on UNO) and the 2013 mixtape &&&&&. He has also been credited for his writing/producing efforts on Kanye West's album Yeezus. http://soundcloud.com/arca-2
2) arca is a french project initiated by Joan Cambon and Sylvain Chauveau at the beginning of the year 2000.