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Threv
Matt Simpson is a native of Atlanta, with occasional stops in South Florida and the farms of South Georgia. Graduated 2004 from Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Computer Engineering, Co-Chair of Nophi Recordings, local organizer of the 2007 Laptop Battles, 2006 Atlanta Laptop Battle champion, former member of The Secret Life, current member of Harmaline and PASSWARDSZ, and 5-year DJ of WREK 91.1 FM "The Mobius". Raised on a healthy diet of 8-bit sounds and FM synthesis, Matt has been a rabid consumer of all things audio since his earliest sound experiments at an early age (from jumping on the hardwood floor of his home to rhythmically skip Michael Jackson's "Thriller", to tossing a plush parrot with a record/playback device embedded, timing the 'oof's and 'ahh's with every hit of the stairs). Trained on the keyboard and viola, Matt has made computer music since 1996. Matt initially learned on DOS-based trackers, and has steadily built a project studio that today encompasses nearly 30 synthesizers, drum machines, circuit bent devices, toys, and self-built miscellanea.
The Secret Life has just released their debut album, The Great Book of Mysterys (and how to solv them) on Nophi Recordings.
Judges:
Tricil
Music with a defined soul - A certain baroque beauty combining pop sensibility with a bombastic live show and ever present electronics and guitars.
In 1998, John Jacobus aka tricil released his debut, the Face EP. The sound was dark, electronic and heavy.
It's Been Worth It followed in 2000, bringing forth a more moody, sound design-oriented approach while concurrently becoming more melodic. For the four years that followed, John attended college and continued writing music, as well as playing guitar for State of Unrest.
2004 saw the release of the Severed EP, which brought Jacobus back to the guitar and would later be expanded into an album called The Secret Life, and eventually beget a wildly acclaimed project of the same name.
Tricil was the Runner-Up of the 2006 Atlanta Laptop Battle Finals.
In 2007, after a successful month-long national tour with the Nerd Parade, tricil released his first EP in three years, Esoteric Drift. A culmination of the past, present, and future stylistic leanings, Esoteric Drift travels forward from shoegazing guitar to crunchy IDM to danceable electronica and even a bizarre funked-up synthpop/metal hybrid. Esoteric Drift is available for free from the pelican dump.
Threv
Matt Simpson is a native of Atlanta, with occasional stops in South Florida and the farms of South Georgia. Graduated 2004 from Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Computer Engineering, Co-Chair of Nophi Recordings, local organizer of the 2007 Laptop Battles, 2006 Atlanta Laptop Battle champion, former member of The Secret Life, current member of Harmaline and PASSWARDSZ, and 5-year DJ of WREK 91.1 FM "The Mobius". Raised on a healthy diet of 8-bit sounds and FM synthesis, Matt has been a rabid consumer of all things audio since his earliest sound experiments at an early age (from jumping on the hardwood floor of his home to rhythmically skip Michael Jackson's "Thriller", to tossing a plush parrot with a record/playback device embedded, timing the 'oof's and 'ahh's with every hit of the stairs). Trained on the keyboard and viola, Matt has made computer music since 1996. Matt initially learned on DOS-based trackers, and has steadily built a project studio that today encompasses nearly 30 synthesizers, drum machines, circuit bent devices, toys, and self-built miscellanea.
The Secret Life has just released their debut album, The Great Book of Mysterys (and how to solv them) on Nophi Recordings.
Judges:
Tricil
Music with a defined soul - A certain baroque beauty combining pop sensibility with a bombastic live show and ever present electronics and guitars.
In 1998, John Jacobus aka tricil released his debut, the Face EP. The sound was dark, electronic and heavy.
It's Been Worth It followed in 2000, bringing forth a more moody, sound design-oriented approach while concurrently becoming more melodic. For the four years that followed, John attended college and continued writing music, as well as playing guitar for State of Unrest.
2004 saw the release of the Severed EP, which brought Jacobus back to the guitar and would later be expanded into an album called The Secret Life, and eventually beget a wildly acclaimed project of the same name.
Tricil was the Runner-Up of the 2006 Atlanta Laptop Battle Finals.
In 2007, after a successful month-long national tour with the Nerd Parade, tricil released his first EP in three years, Esoteric Drift. A culmination of the past, present, and future stylistic leanings, Esoteric Drift travels forward from shoegazing guitar to crunchy IDM to danceable electronica and even a bizarre funked-up synthpop/metal hybrid. Esoteric Drift is available for free from the pelican dump.
www.lastfm.com/music/tricil/
Jason Freeman
Jason Freeman (http://www.jasonfreeman.net) uses new technology and unconventional notation to break down barriers between composers, performers, and listeners, creating music that “stands as an example of the Web’s mind-expanding possibilities” (Billboard) and helps to “bring composition into the Xbox age” (Wired). His music has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Speculum Musicae, the So Percussion Group, and the Nieuw Ensemble, and his sound art has been exhibited at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Boston CyberArts Festival, and the Transmediale Festival. Freeman received his B.A. in music from Yale University and his M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia University. He is currently an assistant professor of music at Georgia Tech.
Omar Torres
Omar Torres has been writing music and designing sound for well over a decade.
Starting in 1989, he curbed his study of “grammar and boring mathematics” and
instead committed himself entirely to the study of music, sound and synthesis. One of
his earliest musical projects, GOG, gained notoriety in Tampa as an opening act for
industrial music legends Nitzer Ebb, Front Line Assembly and Alien Sex Fiend.
However, when partner Bunny left to join the infamous Rabbit in the Moon, Omar
launched into an intense exploration of all things mixing and arranging. That was only
the beginning. Over the next four years Omar amassed a wealth of knowledge and
experience, drifting into more melodic work while at the same time regaining
inspiration for more eclectic and experimental electronic music. This phase spawned
several releases that are still seeing turntable action today. After years of modestly developing as a musician, Omar is now recognized as an accomplished producer unique unto himself. His influences have ranged from a widely diverse range of artists including experimentalists like early Stockhausen, Locust, and Eno to legendary producers like Flood and Quincy Jones and more recently improv jazz kings Bill Evans,
James Spalding, and John Coltrane as well as 80’s funk of the New York / Detroit variety. Because of such a unique mix and appreciation for music, Omar’s work defies all possible description. In addition to programming and writing for Skinny Puppy's LP, “The Greater Wrong of the Right”, Omar has works-in-progress for experimental labels Warp and Schematic. Lastly, there’s his melodic Hologram project on Joe Clausell’s Natural Resource imprint, and his futuristic Latin house as Soulrider has found a home on the Hallucination Limited imprint. Omar also manages to find time for design ventures in film scoring and and commercial music, as well as producing and engineering for other artists.
Hi latest projects include sound-design collaboration work with NIN’s Danny Lohner for Sony Picture’s Underworld, music for a special DVD documentary titled “Revolutions”, a special on the making of “The Matrix” and music score for EMB Filmworks “The Land of the Free” by director Edmund Banuel Jr.
Regardless of the medium, Omar’s extensive mixing experience and love for an array.
Omar recently completed mastering work for The Secret Life's debut CD on Nophi Recordings,
The Great Book of Mysterys (and how to solv them), as well as providing a remix (flood - aquia nandala mix
by hologram and harmaline)
Richard Devine
Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician. He is recognised for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for the Miami-based Schematic Records. As a result of praise of his music from Autechre as well as a remix of Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy, Devine recorded an album for Warp Records which was jointly released by Schematic and Warp. Devine first started using computers for composition around 1993. Don Hasslier, a professor at the Atlanta College of Art, got him interested in computer synthesis, introducing Devine to CSound and other powerful computer-based applications. Devine also coded a couple FFT applications in SuperCollider, an environment and programming language for real-time audio synthesis. “It’s interesting, because you’re doing things to sound that just aren’t physically possible.” Devine also uses Native Instruments (NI) software. His favorite NI applications are Reaktor and Absynth. Reaktor is a very powerful modular system, similar in many respects to classic modular synthesizer systems but also capable of performing low-level DSP sound processing. Devine has also designed sound patches for NI’s Absynth. He has also scored commercials for Nike and Touchstone Pictures, and engineered and performed his own music worldwide.
www.richarddevine.com
www.myspace.com/richarddevine
Travis Thatcher
Early Modern Witch Trials
Judi Chicago
Recompas
Randy Garcia
http://www.randygarcia.com/
www.thenerdparade.com/
Nophi Recordings
randy garcia averages about five hours of sleep each night. These short hours are turbulent and often plagued by abstract impressionist dreams of video games, animals and space travel. In the waking hours, Randy tries desperately to recreate his slumber-land visions through the interrogation of instruments, microphones, computers, and his own bedraggled voice. At random points during the year, Garcia releases documentation of his musical thrashings in the form of singles, EP’s, and full length recordings.
Jason Freeman
Jason Freeman (http://www.jasonfreeman.net) uses new technology and unconventional notation to break down barriers between composers, performers, and listeners, creating music that “stands as an example of the Web’s mind-expanding possibilities” (Billboard) and helps to “bring composition into the Xbox age” (Wired). His music has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Speculum Musicae, the So Percussion Group, and the Nieuw Ensemble, and his sound art has been exhibited at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Boston CyberArts Festival, and the Transmediale Festival. Freeman received his B.A. in music from Yale University and his M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia University. He is currently an assistant professor of music at Georgia Tech.
Omar Torres
Omar Torres has been writing music and designing sound for well over a decade.
Starting in 1989, he curbed his study of “grammar and boring mathematics” and
instead committed himself entirely to the study of music, sound and synthesis. One of
his earliest musical projects, GOG, gained notoriety in Tampa as an opening act for
industrial music legends Nitzer Ebb, Front Line Assembly and Alien Sex Fiend.
However, when partner Bunny left to join the infamous Rabbit in the Moon, Omar
launched into an intense exploration of all things mixing and arranging. That was only
the beginning. Over the next four years Omar amassed a wealth of knowledge and
experience, drifting into more melodic work while at the same time regaining
inspiration for more eclectic and experimental electronic music. This phase spawned
several releases that are still seeing turntable action today. After years of modestly developing as a musician, Omar is now recognized as an accomplished producer unique unto himself. His influences have ranged from a widely diverse range of artists including experimentalists like early Stockhausen, Locust, and Eno to legendary producers like Flood and Quincy Jones and more recently improv jazz kings Bill Evans,
James Spalding, and John Coltrane as well as 80’s funk of the New York / Detroit variety. Because of such a unique mix and appreciation for music, Omar’s work defies all possible description. In addition to programming and writing for Skinny Puppy's LP, “The Greater Wrong of the Right”, Omar has works-in-progress for experimental labels Warp and Schematic. Lastly, there’s his melodic Hologram project on Joe Clausell’s Natural Resource imprint, and his futuristic Latin house as Soulrider has found a home on the Hallucination Limited imprint. Omar also manages to find time for design ventures in film scoring and and commercial music, as well as producing and engineering for other artists.
Hi latest projects include sound-design collaboration work with NIN’s Danny Lohner for Sony Picture’s Underworld, music for a special DVD documentary titled “Revolutions”, a special on the making of “The Matrix” and music score for EMB Filmworks “The Land of the Free” by director Edmund Banuel Jr.
Regardless of the medium, Omar’s extensive mixing experience and love for an array.
Omar recently completed mastering work for The Secret Life's debut CD on Nophi Recordings,
The Great Book of Mysterys (and how to solv them), as well as providing a remix (flood - aquia nandala mix
by hologram and harmaline)
Richard Devine
Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician. He is recognised for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for the Miami-based Schematic Records. As a result of praise of his music from Autechre as well as a remix of Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy, Devine recorded an album for Warp Records which was jointly released by Schematic and Warp. Devine first started using computers for composition around 1993. Don Hasslier, a professor at the Atlanta College of Art, got him interested in computer synthesis, introducing Devine to CSound and other powerful computer-based applications. Devine also coded a couple FFT applications in SuperCollider, an environment and programming language for real-time audio synthesis. “It’s interesting, because you’re doing things to sound that just aren’t physically possible.” Devine also uses Native Instruments (NI) software. His favorite NI applications are Reaktor and Absynth. Reaktor is a very powerful modular system, similar in many respects to classic modular synthesizer systems but also capable of performing low-level DSP sound processing. Devine has also designed sound patches for NI’s Absynth. He has also scored commercials for Nike and Touchstone Pictures, and engineered and performed his own music worldwide.
www.richarddevine.com
www.myspace.com/richarddevine
Travis Thatcher
Early Modern Witch Trials
Judi Chicago
Recompas
Randy Garcia
http://www.randygarcia.com/
www.thenerdparade.com/
Nophi Recordings
randy garcia averages about five hours of sleep each night. These short hours are turbulent and often plagued by abstract impressionist dreams of video games, animals and space travel. In the waking hours, Randy tries desperately to recreate his slumber-land visions through the interrogation of instruments, microphones, computers, and his own bedraggled voice. At random points during the year, Garcia releases documentation of his musical thrashings in the form of singles, EP’s, and full length recordings.
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