Tom Gilmore, aka Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families, or '10k', is a chipmusic/chipunk artist from Sydney, Australia. Tom also founded a Game Boy/8-bit Music blog with a friend, fellow artist Dot.AY called Game Boy Australia. The offical 10k website can be found at http://10kfreemen.com.
Composer Pauline Oliveros is a maverick in the field of electronic music. Oliveros' first instrument was the accordion; as a teenager in Texas she played in a 100-piece accordion group that appeared at the rodeo. In 1949 she entered the University of Houston, but in 1952 transferred to San Francisco State College. Oliveros studied music privately with Robert Erickson and began to associate with a loose confederation of like-minded composers; Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Morton Subotnick among them.
The expressions on the faces of the audience mid-way through The Vitamin B12s performance displayed a wonderful mix of amusement, confusion, horror and intrigue. The band created a 20-minute long piece, improvised on percussion by individuals all listening to headphones and unaware of what the others were playing. As one band member wandered slowly round the bar gently tapping a cymbal, and another began hitting the stage curtain with a drumstick...
Tenji Nozoki (????) (born February 16, 1950), best known by the stage name Kazuki Tomokawa (?? ???), is a prolific Japanese musician, active in the Japanese music scene since the early seventies. He is often described as a "screaming philosopher". Multi-talented Kazuki Tomokawa (?????, singer, author, actor, painter, raconteur) remains curiously unappreciated in the West, in spite of creating some of the most consistently inspired, emotionally resonant outsider folk music of recent years.
Sylvia Hallett studied music at Dartington, and then spent two years studying composition with Max Deutsch in Paris. She now works both as a composer and as an improviser, and has had pieces performed in Britain and Europe. She has played in many international festivals since the late 1970s, working with several well-known and respected musicians, including Lol Coxhill, Maggie Nicols, Phil Minton, Evan Parker, and the groups Accordions Go Crazy, LaXula, British Summer Time Ends, The London Improvisers Orchestra, and the London Hardingfelelag.
AKA Lowen Coxhill
Born: 19-Sep-1932
Birthplace: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England Lol Coxhill became active in the jazz scene as a teenager, when he began organizing club events with both live and recorded music in 1947. His interests were temporarily put on hold at the beginning of the 1950s by an invitation to spend some time with the Royal Air Force, but he made up for lost time throughout the rest of the decade, playing in a wide variety of ensembles and genres.
There are multiple artists who have recoded under this name. 1. David Stewart - an Australian wildlife sound recordist. 2. A guitarist from England who also records under the name of David A. Stewart. 3. Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart
1. David Stewart is Australia’s most renowned wildlife sound recordist. Based on the far north coast of New South Wales David has spent the last 22 years travelling throughout Australia amassing the most extensive collection of natural bird, frog and mammal sound in the country.
