Andy Buclaw is a singer/songwriter from Telford, Shropshire. He cites songwriting influences as the likes of Thea Gilmore, Roddy Woomble, Kat Flint, Elliott Smith and Ben Gibbard. Musically he is influenced by local musicians such as Rob Dunsford, Dirty Ray (formerly of The Immaculate Fools) and The Daughters.
Blank Realm is a rock band out of Brisbane. They “create a levitating atmosphere built on improvisations that focus sharp into excellent, tuneful songs (Brian Turner – WFMU)”. The band is composed of 3 siblings and a spiritual brother who share a love fine dining, and even finer selections from their well-stocked humidor.
Back in the late '80s, Melbourne's Andrew Curtis and Philip Samartzis collaborated in the aurally volatile project simply called Gum. With little expertise or training, the two gathered up what objects they were familiar with, in particular thrift store turntables and soiled records. Eschewing their original attraction to the giants of Industrial Culture, Gum quickly developed an aesthetic privileging the caustic rupture of skipping records and smoldering surface noise, predating the current avant-turntablist aficionados like Philip Jeck, Janek Schaefer, and Otomo Yoshihide.
Luigi Nono (29 January 1924 - 8 May 1990) was an Italian composer. He studied at the Venice Conservatoire where he became acquainted with serialism. (He married Arnold Schönberg's daughter Nuria in 1955). He became a leading composer of instrumental and electronic music. In 1950, he attended the "Ferienkurse für neue Musik" in Darmstadt, where he met composers such as Edgard Varèse and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Works from this first period include: Polifonica-Monodica-Ritmica (1951), Epitaffio per Federico García Lorca (1952-1953), La victoire de Guernica (1954) and Liebeslied (1954).
TAPE THAT is a part of the N-Collective:
N is an international network of musicians, improvisers and composers. We create, record and perform music using acoustic, electronic and electro-acoustic media. You can attend the upcoming N Events in Amsterdam, Bergen, New York, Stavanger, Berlin or Geneva. TAPE THAT
Tapes almost everything and layers it with almost everything else. Not sound scapes, but pieces of music created by juxtaposing different sounds in different spaces.
The full name of DDAA is Déficit Des Années Antérieures.
DDAA was an obscure group of radical experimental noise makers used improvisation and collage to craft strange sounds and deconstructed songs for highly creative music that is as far off the path of conventions as that of similar but more known visionaries like the Residents and Nurse With Wound. In fact, DDAA roughly began the same time as NWW in the late '70s, started by three visual artists, Sylvie Martineau, Jean-Philippe Fee, and Jean-Luc Andre in Lion sur Mer, France.
Soundscapes and droney textures based on guitar and field recordings. http://ypsmael.tumblr.com
riverrun is a side project by Daniel Land of the Manchester, UK shoegaze band Daniel Land & The Modern Painters. Taking its name from the first line of James Joyce
Pete Swanson was one half of the mighty Yellow Swans. Now he makes brooding electronic/dark ambient tracks with the same twisted ferocity.