Not Breathing
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It's our privilege to live in a small city that
boasts a disproportionately large amount of state-of-the-art electronica;
Not Breathing is the gray eminence of Tucson's extensive wirehead
scene. We met Not Breathing at one of our String Theory events,
and received this email the next day. We've published it in its
entirety.
howdy folks - was talking to someone involved with
the tucson underground site at a concert last night at vaudville
- i guess here is some info you might not know
of. some other artists in the areas you might want to list
would be flamchen and steve roach both who have great websites.
i've lived here all most my whole life (time in san
fran and portland oregon in late 90s) - been playing out since round
93 - worked w/ then tingari flam chen, dpc/luna loca experimental
scene - but am a total rekluse for many reasons
heres a brief bio and here are my webpages
www.notbreathing.com -
my band
www.carrionsound.com -
my instrument design gallery
not breathing, brief bio
HISTORY:
Not Breathing is the creative vehicle of one Dave Wright, maker
of experimental electronic music and instruments. Beginning at the
year 1992 with an impressive and prolific series of self-distributed
cassettes, Not Breathing'ss explosive career now encompasses five
full-length CD releases, several vinyl releases, over forty compilation
appearances, one 8-track release, five US tours and countless live
performances. For the past six years Not Breathing has worked exclusively
with Chicago's legendary industrial label Invisible Records, spawning
three widely acclaimed CD albums as well as a collaboration with
Dead Voices On Air. In 2003 Not Breathing changed to the Kimosciotic
label home of acts such as CRACK:WAR, Zigenbock Kopf, Unagi and
the Coachwhips
"Wright's a true American electronic gem." -Brainwashed
LIVE:
Not Breathing is renowned for driving, mind-altering live performances,
often in collaboration with fire- or dance-performance troupes.
Not surprisingly, they have been recruited as US tour support
for bands including Einsturzende Neubauten, Test Department, Dead
Voices On Air, Pigface, Sheep on Drugs, F.M Einheit, and Subarachnoid
Space - while stand-alone performances have involved acts as diverse
as Crash Worship and Cluster.
"Also on the bill was Not Breathing, a Tuscon team that effortlessly
spun a mesmerizing stream of sound that metamorphosed from an icy
ambient opening to a fiery, churning finale." --S.Masuo, LA
Times
PERSONNEL:
Although Not Breathing is Wright's brainchild, the band has also
involved a wide array of talented peripheral members and guests,
including Bruce Brindamour (Ledgerdemain), Drew Fitzgerald, Karl
White (Metrognome/Asimetrix), Jesse Pepper, Ron Chmara, Seofon (Ambient
Temple of Imagination), Kimoscio (Kimosciotic ), Jack Dangers (Meat
Beat Manifesto), Chris Cones, (Earwicker), Mark Spybey (Dead Voices
On Air/Zoviet France), and many others.
"[A] maelstrom of tenacious electronics that joyfully disrupts
the sonic pathways. Infectious to the nth, as multiplied by a googol."
-Outburn Magazine
INSTRUMENTS:
As an accomplished electronics engineer, Wright is able to create
instruments that deliver an absolutely unique spectrum of sound.
Carrionsound.com - his online workshop/gallery of home-made noisemakers,
circuit-bent toys, and modular synths - has inspired and frightened
countless visitors. Wright's instruments reside in the studios of
Nine Inch Nails, Meat Beat Manifesto, Dead Voices on Air, Pigface,
Content Provider, Ambient Temple of Imagination, and more to come.
An article written by Dave on creating a 2-bit sampler has appeared
in two publications. Not Breathing's music also seamlessly incorporates
acoustic sound sources including didjeridu, bells, and waterphone,
flute, guitar, sitar, bells, gongs, drums, the rain on the roof,
electromagnetic force feilds and plasma generators.
"[D]rove me into sheer hysteria, as Dave Wright pushed my buttons
with chops the Îbig boys' forgot existed." -Ink 19
COLLABORATIONS & SESSION WORK:
As if his prolific discography as Not Breathing weren't enough,
Wright also has an extensive body of work as a collaborator and
session musician. You can find Wright rubbing shoulders with Dead
Voices on Air, Pigface, Meat Beat Manifesto, Flam-Chen, MSBR, Content
Provider, Ambient Temple of Imagination, Personna, Lilith, Subarachnoid
Space, Instagon, AA23, Kalma, Blazen y Sharp, Randy Yau, Crawl Unit,
Earwicker, N. B. C., Then Tingari,Exterior Mirror, Hal McGee,Earwicker,Property
Of Theives, Abintra. Not to mention being commissioned to remix
artists such as Sheep on Drugs, Venetian Snares, My Life with the
Thrill Kill Cult, Pigface, Channel 69
"Not Breathing has some sort of strange addictive quality that
I can't even pin-point.This is a bubbling, burbling, gurling, crazy
electronic stew of strangeness closest to artists like the Orb and
SuperCollider on one side, and the silly, surrealistic, short attention
span concrete noise nature of A Small Good Thing and Violent Onsen
Geisha on the other." -Supersphere
booking/more info:
Not Breathing Sound System
bastardita@hotmail.com
P.O. Box 64545
www.notbreathing.com
Tucson, AZ 85712 USA
www.carrionsound.com
www.kimosciotic.com
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dave wright
www.notbreathing.com
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