Line-up

Thursday, October 4th
Official opening party for the Experi-MENTAL Festival 4 hosted at Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor
New York, NY
1-650-400-5100
http://www.facebook.com/spectrumNYC
Special guest performance by the SK Orchestra
http://www.facebook.com/skorchestra

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Friday, October 5th

8:15-8:45 Onewayness (Erie PA USA)
http://onewayness.bandcamp.com
9:00-9:30 Restrictor (NY)
http://soundcloud.com/the-restrictor
9:45-10:15 Rinus Van Alebeek (NL)
http://www.zeromoon.com/artists/rinus-van-alebeek
10:30-11:00 If, Bwana (NY): Al Margolis, Leslie Ross (bassoon), Katherine Liberovskaya (live video)
http://www.ifbwana.com
11:15-11:45 Invisible Sports (NY)
http://www.invisiblesports.com
12:00-12:30 Giant Squid Autopsy (IL)
http://www.facebook.com/giantsquid.autopsy

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Saturday, October 6th

5:30-6:00 Big Brother on Acid (NY)
http://www.bigbrotheronacid.com
6:15-6:45 Amber Brien Trio (from PAS) (NY) (Featuring Valerie Kuehne and Amanda Ray)
http://www.pasmusic.weebly.com
http://www.dreamzoo.bandcamp.com
http://www.amandaray.net
7:00-7:30 Black Saturn (VA)
http://alrealonmusique.com/bsaturn.html
7:45-8:15 Häßliche Luftmasken (NY Nick Didkovsky)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Häßliche-Luftmasken/102706176523568
8:30-9:00 Xambuca (NC)
http://www.erototox.com/artists/xambuca
9:15-9:45 The Chonto/Tamura Sonic Insurgency (NY)
10:00-10:30 Promute (USA)
http://www.blondenamusic.com/promute.html
10:45-11:15 Ron Anderson (Molecules/PAK), Lawry Zilmrah, Dave Tamura, Robert L. Pepper (from PAS)
http://www.ronanderson-molecules.com
http://www.myspace.com/zilmrah
http://www.pasmusic.weebly.com
11:30-12:30 Rapoon (UK)
http://www.rapoon.net
12:45-1:15 Lazurite (NY)
http://www.facebook.com/Lazuritelazurite

Vomit Cabaret in the backyard (Acoustic open mic run by Jon Vomit Worthley of PAS) http://www.facebook.com/vomitcabaret
Visuals supplied by Jim Tuite
http://www.jimtuite.com

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Sunday, October 7th
Curated by Michael Durek http://michaeldurek.com

Michael Durek is a multi-instrumentalist, artist, and curator who plays as Cloud Cloud. From a chip-tunes beginning in 2009, Cloud Cloud became an electro/experimental chamber ensemble, and finally meshed into it's current form: A saucy blend of pulsitile, structured, yet free electronic music making use of synths, theremins, and sampled sounds recorded from Durek's everyday life. Durek has performed in six different countries with PAS (Post Abortion Stress), leads a group called the SK Orchestra, co-organizes the Omega Sound Fix festival, plays in George Sand, Ping Pong, and has appeared on over a dozen albums.

5:30-6:00 Groupthink
http://www.groupthinksounds.com
6:15-6:45 George Sand
http://georgesand.bandcamp.com
7:00-7:30 Trinitron
http://www.trinitronsound.com
7:45-8:15 Valerie Kuehne
http://www.dreamzoo.bandcamp.com
8:30-9:00 Charmaine’s Names
http://www.charmainesnames.me
9:15-9:45 Loop B
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Loop-B/146793085331436
10:00-10:30 Joseph Keckler
http://josephkeckler.com
10:45-11:15 Ian M. Colletti
http://ianmcolletti.com
11:30-12:00 Big Plastic Finger
http://bigplasticfinger.bandcamp.com
12:15-12:45 Samvega
http://www.samvega.com

PERFORMANCY FORUM, curated by Esther Neff (Panoply Performance Laboratory)
with Rob Andrews and Adjua Greaves
http://www.panoplylab.org/performancy.html
Visuals supplied by Jim Tuite
http://www.jimtuite.com

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RAPOON

Robin Storey was born in 1955 in Cumbria, England. While studying fine arts at Sunderland University, he began pursuing a long-held interest in sound manipulation by taking classes in electronic and experimental composition, additionally joining with friends to perform the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen (a key influence, as were the Krautrock bands of the early 1970s). In 1979 Storey formed the pioneering industrial group :zoviet*france:, remaining a member until 1992: The same year, Storey issued the first Rapoon album, "Dream Circle", its entrancing fusion of Indian ragas, African rhythms and experimental textures anticipating the evocative soundscapes of the many releases to follow. Also a noted visual artist and animator, Storey's work has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the collections of many major galleries.

Storey has collaborated widely and has produced albums with artists including Joachim Roedelius (Cluster , Harmonia) Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions ) Randy Grief and Russian Folk singer Tatyana Stepchenko aka.Toloka. He has also collaborated in live work with numerous other musicians including Damo Suzuki (Can). As well as producing his own abstract animated films he has also produced work for soundtracks for Independent films including Randy Grief's award winning film "the Three Trials" and award winning film by NY independent artist Nadine Shamounki with her film “Effaced” and is currently proving the soundtrack for German film "Boring" which is under production. Storey has also produced two best-selling sound loop libraries for Sony Media and has had his work used for TV advertising. In 2011 Storey produced music and visuals for his first dance collaborations (with Johanna Devi) which was performed at London’s BloomsBury Theatre that same year and Hybrid Identities with Johanna Devi and Eva Balzer performed in Berlin 2012.
http://www.rapoon.net

If, Bwana

If, Bwana was born on New Year's Eve 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition. A recent review of Margolis's work says: "Let it be declared that Al Margolis/If, Bwana is some sort of evil genius working with raw materials which are never adapted to a genre or a context, because they create one in that very moment. Those sources are radically altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact determination." (Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes).
http://www.ifbwana.com

Leslie Ross, performer, sound-installation artist, bassoonist and instrument-maker, has been exploring and experimenting with sound for over 25 years. In both gallery and street performance settings as well as in collaboration with choreographers, she has created works for numerous constructed instruments and installations. As an improviser Leslie played and toured with many musicians and groups through the 90s' including with '/Trigger/', a collaborative trio with Fred Lunberg-Holmes and Paul Hoskin. Her own compositions for performance are structured scores that play with memory and recall, where the 'recalled' may be developed in predetermined various ways. Improvisation remains the central and essential element of these scores. In the past few years she has returned her focus to a detailed exploration and understanding of bassoon multiphonics. This process of investigation has led to the creation of solo works that use an extensive system of micro-amplification: 15 microphones are placed at tone holes on the instrument and the signal from these microphones are directed to many speakers around a room. She continues to build replicas of historical bassoons in her workshop on the Lower East Side of NYC.

Katherine Liberovskaya is a video/media artist based in Montreal and New York. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she has produced numerous videos, video installations and performances shown at various events and venues around the world. Since 2001 her work predominantly focuses on collaborations with composers and sound artists notably in live video+sound performance where her live visuals seek to create improvisatory "music" for the eyes. Frequent collaborators include Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana, Zanana, Kristin Norderval, Hitoshi Kojo, David Watson, David First and o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi). Recent projects have involved: Shelley Hirsch, Chantal Dumas, Leslie Ross, Richard Garet and Dorit Chrysler. Concurrently she curates and organizes the Screen Compositions evenings at Experimental Intermedia, NYC, since 2005 and the OptoSonic Tea series with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason, NYC, since 2006.
http://www.liberovskaya.net

Ron Anderson

Ron Anderson was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1959. He is a self-taught rock composer who starting experimenting with free improvisation while in high school in the mid 1970's. In 1980 he was a founding member of Rat At Rat R in Philadelphia. He then moved to New York City's Lower East Side in 1982. There he started working in his home recording studio experimenting with tape editing, found sounds, noise, and improvisation. He combined these elements with composition and released his first LP entitled "Fever Dream" in 1987. Ron moved to Oakland, CA in 1989 and shortly thereafter formed The Molecules; they released a total of 6 CDs. He and The Molecules were introduced to the European music community at the Musique Action Festival in Nancy, France in 1993 and since then he has been a regular on the European festival and club circuit, as well as touring in Japan, Canada and the United States. After living in Geneva, Switzerland for one year, he moved back to New York City in 1999 where he formed PAK. He has collaborated with many musicians on numerous projects. He appears on over 60 releases, most recently Ron Anderson's PAK "Secret Curve" (on Tzadik) and Ron Anderson/Robert L, Pepper/David Tamura/Philippe Petit "Closed Encounters Of The 4 Minds" (on Public Eyesore).
http://www.ronanderson-molecules.com

Rinus Van Alebeek

"Rinus Van Alebeek is a peculiar observer of reality and an artist who instinctively transforms lo-fi tape recordings into evocative sound poems,
Luis Costa, president of Binaural and Associação Cultural de Nodar

Rinus van Alebeek (1956, Heerlen, The Netherlands) is a writer who uses his (environmental) recordings on tape to narrate a story. During the nineties he published two books (pseud. Philip Markus) in his native country. The first novel (De Weg naar Oude God) won the prestigious Geert Jan Lubberhuizen Prijs, a yearly award for the best first novel. An accidental encounter with electronic and Avant Garde music in the year 2000 at the Lem festival in Barcelona, and an introduction to the cassette culture gave way to his further artistic development. In the first decade of this century van Alebeek made a thorough research on how to make or manipulate recordings. Thanks to a great number of concerts, sometimes an average of ten in a month, he developed an approach of which people say it is 'between noise and pure poetry'.
http://www.zeromoon.com/artists/rinus-van-alebeek

Chonto/Tamura Sonic Insurgency‏

"Think of a world where ART is the only motivation."
Rob Tyner, MC5


The CHONTO / TAMURA SONIC INSURGENCY combines the sonics, methods and energies of the live MC5, Ash Ra Tempel, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor Unit, Brötzmann’s Machine Gun Octet a.o. Co-led by drummer Joe Chonto, whose "powerful drumming . . . whipping up with a hurricane-like force" is equally influenced by Sunny Murray, Elvin Jones, John Bonham, Edgar Varese a.o., and saxophonist/keys player David Tamura, who lists Brötzmann, Ayler and early Shepp among his influences, the group is primarily dedicated to high-energy, through-the-wall free improvisation. Guitarists Martin McDonald and Pete Matthiessen play with stunning imagination, passion and daring.

"This music is intense, tight, powerful and focused... illustrates what true freedom is all about and the way it works or doesn’t. Here it works extremely well."
(Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery)


"The freeform rockish attack of the first track bears some resemblance to Bill Laswell and Sonny Sharrock on old Material records, but that doesn’t define the whole of this unexpected record."
(New York City Jazz Record)

Invisible Sports

Aaron Moore is an Englishman residing in Brooklyn, New York who plays music with instruments & devices. His primary instruments are drums, voice & trumpet but he generally considers any instrument (or object) playable in one way or another. Moore is a founding member of English experimental music group Volcano The Bear. A music consisting of both composition & improvisation, a music difficult to describe but one that is always seeking change & taking new directions both deliberately and accidentally. In a 2006 article on VTB the Wire magazine described them as "producing some of the finest, wildest British music of the last 10 years on record & on stage".

Moore’s debut solo album, 2005’s “The Accidental” recorded in Leicester, England was a minimal work primarily using one acoustic instrument per track to create drones, loops and soundscapes. “The Accidental” was described by Foxy Digitalis as "...graceful as a ripple in fresh water, or as a snowfall on a particularly cold January morning".

Since moving to Brooklyn in late 2006, Moore has been developing his solo work under the name Invisible Sports in a number of ways using drums, voice, melodic percussion, trumpet, tapes & loops. From songs based around said melodic percussion & multi-tracked voice to sprawling epics of progressive looping & ritualistic improvisation. In 2008 he performed his first solo concert in Oslo, Norway followed by shows in France & New York.

2012 saw the release of two Invisible Sports albums. 'The Future Tastes' on Alt Vinyl is the home for his song based work. 'Ow Pow Hero Hour' for Intransitive Recordings is a document of live recordings of his improvised sonic rituals recorded in Boston and Brooklyn.

Moore has appeared on over 40 albums with various groups & toured extensively in North America & Europe; performing at such prestigious venues as the Pompidou Centre in Paris. He has collaborated/performed with Boredoms, A Hawk & A Hacksaw, Paul Dunmall, Michael Snow, Bill Drummond, Mats Gustaffson, Alan Courtis, C Spencer Yeh, Thierry Muller, Tom Recchion, Nightingales and Steve Mackay (The Stooges).

Moore’s other musical projects past & present include Wizards Of Oi, Müller-Moore-Music, The AM Group, Dragon Or Emperor, Amolvacy, Courtis/Moore, Songs Of Norway and Paris based Textile Orchestra/Trio..
http://www.invisiblesports.com

PAS

PAS started in 1995 out of Brooklyn, NY, USA, driven by the creative talents of Robert L. Pepper working in the mediums of sound and video. Since then PAS has evolved into a collective with many different instrumentations and lineups. Permanent members include Amber Brien, Jon “Vomit” Worthley, Michael Durek.PAS have performed in 9 countries and have produced about ten releases.

PAS is a group out to create musical collages through the form of abstract sound. The aesthetic underpinnings are defined by the notion that music can be whatever the ear perceives. It’s a conception fueled by the love of life and art. It’s a desire for honest artistic self-expression. The compositions themselves are more akin to soundscapes than “songs” in the traditional sense. There are no clearly defined melodies, no structural landmarks that give you any sense of traditional anchor. This is not music making with any sense of or desire for commercial viability, but sonic sculptures in the mode of pure art.
http://www.pasmusic.weebly.com

Charmaine’s Names

Music from the cum-stained heart of premiere underground lounge star, Charmaine.
Beautiful, disruptive, hilarious, and "Inescapable!", Charmaine and Charmaine's Names are an unstoppable 1 to question mark piece live performance band, now available for childrens' parties.
There are no limits to what you will feel when you witness Charmaine's Names, and the possibility that you will like what you feel is not insignificant.
This is not for children!
This is for you.
Unless you are a child.
Then don't tell your parents, just get their money.
Get that money, ladies and gentlemen and etc.
Get.
That.
Money.
And buy me lunch. I've got theories to disprove.
http://www.charmainesnames.me

Black Saturn

Black Saturn hails from the DMV (District of Columbia/Maryland/Virginia). In 2006, he debuted with his self-released EP, 'Birds in the Morning'. Since that time, his experimental, hip-hop, industrial, noise and dub influenced sound has graced numerous podcasts, collaborations, net labels and radio airwaves. Black Saturn is also known for his collaborative effort’s with, Chicago based musician Christophe Gilmore (FluiD). Together they are known as Black Saturn vs. subduxtion and have multiple releases available on Alrealon Musique. Their releases received very favorable reviews as well as extensive airplay in North America and Europe. In 2010, the duo did a brief string of performances in the US; culminating in theirappearance at Noise Shock: Abstract Art & Music Festival (East Moline,IL). Black Saturn’s recent activities include appearing at the 2011 Experi-MENTAL Festival in Brooklyn, NY, as well as collaboratingwith New York experimentalists PAS on their Alrealon Musique release, 'Reconstruction' (ALRN023). He also appeared on the critically acclaimed album from FluiD, 'Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD' (ALRN008). Another recent collaboration is with the Netherlands based group, Cold Metal Future.Black Saturn contributed wordsound to the track, 'Walls Inside US, from Cold Metal Future's, 'Palestine' single. Currently, Black Saturn released his new album, 'Ned Jackson is My Little Brother' (ALRN030) on February 23, 2012. This is the follow up to his EP, 'Johnson Noise Killed Fletcher Munson' (ALRN012).
http://alrealonmusique.com/bsaturn.html

Amber Brien Trio (from PAS, featuring Valerie Kuehne and Amanda Ray)

Originating from Texas, PAS founding member Amber Brien, has developed PAS's sound with her unique rhythmatic percussive playing of a bass guitar. She is also trained in percussion and Japanese Taiko drums from her mentor Kauro Watanabe.

PAS started in 1995 out of Brooklyn, NY, USA, driven by the creative talents of Robert L. Pepper working in the mediums of sound and video. Since then PAS has evolved into a collective with many different instrumentations and lineups. Permanent members include Amber Brien, Jon “Vomit” Worthley, Michael Durek.PAS have performed in 9 countries and have produced about ten releases.

PAS is a group out to create musical collages through the form of abstract sound. The aesthetic underpinnings are defined by the notion that music can be whatever the ear perceives. It’s a conception fueled by the love of life and art. It’s a desire for honest artistic self-expression. The compositions themselves are more akin to soundscapes than “songs” in the traditional sense. There are no clearly defined melodies, no structural landmarks that give you any sense of traditional anchor. This is not music making with any sense of or desire for commercial viability, but sonic sculptures in the mode of pure art.
http://www.pasmusic.weebly.com

Amanda Ray

With influences ranging from Cassandra Wilson and Björk to Sade and Massive Attack, Amanda Ray’s esoteric and ethereal stirrings are evident. After fifteen years in Atlanta, Georgia, and a short stint in London, the singer/songwriter/producer finds herself back in the city of her birth, New York—the point of origin in her musical journey.
http://www.amandaray.net

Valerie Kuehne

Valerie Kuehne is an electrically charged virtuoso of all purpose cello. Dynamic performer, fearless improviser, songwriter, vocalist, and classically trained connoisseur of Bach and Britten, Valerie can be found playing incessant shows in NYC, where she devotes formidable heart, intellect, creativity, and time to cross-pollinating sundry genres. Armed with finesse, Valerie is impressively present on stage, rendering poignant punctuations of changeable emotional weather. In any setting, her instrument aches with human implications and fiendish alien fuel.
http://www.dreamzoo.bandcamp.com

Loop B

Loop B is musician, composer, sound designer and electronic music producer. He plays keyboard and percussion over electronic bases. He creates instruments to play: gas tank, fridge, washing machine, cannon bullets, toy sword, car dashboard and others. Loop B teaching too. He works with two kinds of workshops: percussion with scrap iron and digital musical composition.
http://www.last.fm/music/Loop+B

Joseph Keckler

Joseph Keckler is an artist, writer and singer who fuses lyrical narratives with a mimetic and classically-infused voice. His shows have been presented by The New Museum, SXSW Music, Joe's Pub, La MaMa, Cameo Gallery, Amsterdam's Bellevue Theatre, and other venues. Joseph is a 2012 NYFA Fellow in Interdisciplinary Work. PAPER Magazine declares Keckler "Dazzling" and Baltimore CityPaper dubs him "A tour de force of deconstruction."
http://www.josephkeckler.com

Big Brother On Acid

Big Brother On Acid is some guy who took way to many drugs and then got a sound creation machine. Nothing has been the same since.
http://www.bigbrotheronacid.com

Trinitron

Trinitron (New Brunswick, NJ/In Orbit Everywhere). Musician/Promoter/Recording Artist, Mark Weinberg works with a contemporary yet abstract palette, weaving tangible melodies and subtle textures through the use of processed electric guitar, vocals, and pre-recorded elements. Trinitron uses guitar to create a shimmering, looping soundscape reminiscent of film scores, or the ambient soundtrack to dreams. His hypnotic performances oftenincorporate visual media presentations. This is the sound of overflowing thoughts, distilled. In a world of chaos, Trinitron seeks the quiet center.

Trinitron was created in 2005 as the ongoing solo project of Mark Weinberg. Based out of New Brunswick, New Jersey, he has performed, recorded, and released music with Risk Relay, Beautiful Bear (Osa Bella), Walking With Cavemen, Secret Photos, and Ping Pong and has opened for the likes of The Rapture, Ezekiel Honig, and Octant. He has curated and performed at hundreds of concerts, including the experimental festival, The Omega Sound Fix, which has taken place twotimes at the Alfa Art Gallery in New Brunswick, NJ. He embarked on a successful tour of the mid-Atlantic during the summer of 2010. As Trinitron, he has released three recordings; the latest, “A Quiet Echo,” was released via I Love to Hate Records in February 2011. Having cut his teeth amidst the New Brunswick basement show culture, and with a sound that crosses many genres, Trinitron is garnering attention both locally and beyond.
http://www.trinitronsound.com

Promute

Noise is solace. Sorrowful and pure. I created Promute in 2002 after graduating from Columbia College Chicago. It is a project in which I take great care to maintain that purity. I have used environmental recordings, electroacoustic instruments, synthesis, and conventional tools to create. I believe in the ever-changing process in the sonic arts, which keeps every recording fresh and every performance demanding for the audience and the performer. I was based out of Chicago until 2005, when I moved to North Carolina. I promptly secured a position with Nightsound Studio, and immersed myself into recording and performing live. I feel that my perspective towards audio has played a large part in working on recordings for the local acts that I work with. Some of my current pieces are included on the Silber on Silber Compilation, and Christhole from the Akashic Revolve. Two of my film scores include Balloon Animals, and Neptune and Dragon by Justin Meckes. I have worked on several records for many bands and artsists over the last ten years.
http://www.blondenamusic.com/promute.html

Zilmrah

Zilmrah is a philosophy or musical vision. It encompasses the need to explore as well as to build onto non-existing audio backdrops. It is not bound by the weight of preconceived genres to guide its motives. There is only room for growth with the removal of expectation. Musical Instruments and sound sculptures are designed for the project for perpetual audio motion and also for cultural expansion; the likes of which have been constricted by habit and progressive discipline. This particular project can also be seen as a directive in opposition to musical stability. It uses its own textures and structures to expand its own place in the genre cluttered world. There is a Spiritual force present in this sound but it is the inner freedom of audible creativity that unleashes this feeling. Open sound is and will always be the only motive to continue doing this for me. There are no political, religious, social motives or hidden agendas guiding this project. It is simply spiritual, either constructive or destructive depending on what is being expressed at that particular time. People need to discover for themselves and not be told how to create or how to feel. Aside from sound creation the project has featured the contribution of video artists and experimental dancers. In future installments for live events there will be expanded membership to play some of the new musical instruments; some of which are acoustic percussive, electric and electro-acoustic. I am often looking for innovative artists to collaborate with whether they are musicians, video artists, dancers, instrument builders, poets or performance artists, so if this project seems interesting to you and it connects with your sensibilities and agrees with your aesthetics then feel free to contact me.
http://www.facebook.com/lawry.zilmrah

Restrictor

"Band of Elite or Cult? The Restrictor is a group from Williamsburg-Brooklyn NY. its peculiar music is a hybrid of Post Jazz (ECM Style), Progressive Rock, Ambient and Avant Gard 20th Century post Classic".

The Restrictor is Adam Dym (Horns), Damien Olsen (Guitars, Keys), Kevin Rozza (Bass), Angela Chambers (Flute, Vocals, Piano) and Anthony Delio (Drums). The Restrictor started circa 2004 by sound and visual artist Damien Olsen ( keys, guitars, various electronics) and Kevin Rozza (bass, bass guitar). Today, 7 years away from its erratic beginnings and with three studio albums and its own musical language the band has finally established at the end of the line of its most pushing influences: The psychedelic Canterbury scene of late 60s and early 70s, Krautrock, Progressive European Rock, Free Form Jazz, Post Jazz ECM style, and the Avant Garde 19th and 20th Century orchestral music of Stravinsky, Debussy, Satie, Rimsky Korsakov and Mussorsky.
http://soundcloud.com/the-restrictor

Lazurite

Lazurite is the solo project of Megan Moncrief, mostly employing the ukelin (an oddball 36-stringed invention sold door to door during the Great Depression). String drones, feedback, and percussive strikes bleed together with synths, homemade effects, and drum loops, all processed through the ominous digital buzz of a stack of throwaway pedals. The first Lazurite tape, Secular Geometry, was self-released in 2011. A forthcoming self-titled release will come out on Fabrica later this summer.
http://www.facebook.com/Lazuritelazurite

Onewayness

onewayness is Adam Holquist, an experimental electronic musician from Erie, Pennsylvania. He uses hardware and software synths, spoken word and field recordings, and a variety of acoustic and electric instruments to create atmospheric compositions which draw influence from vintage Berlin-school electronic music, minimalism, post-rock, and contemporary electronic 'listening music'.
http://onewayness.bandcamp.com

Groupthink

Groupthink inaugurate electroacoustic soundscapes by marrying objects acquired with objects found to yield music that fluctuates between rough-hewn ambience, campfire tribalism, and experimental atmospherics. A duo comprised of Darren Bergstein & Edward Yuhas, Groupthink mine a rich seam of improvised electroacoustic ambience & awry rhythmic pulsations via guitar, iPhone & laptop apps, myriad found objects, various percussives, samples, loops, and processing. Groupthink just realized their debut recording, "Of Microcosmic Origins", in March 2012 on the Periphery label, and welcome the future participation of other like-minded sound artists who seek to blur electronic music's established signifiers.
http://www.groupthinksounds.com

Häßliche Luftmasken
Häßliche Luftmasken is a metal band led by Nick Didkovsky, with Josh Lopes on guitar, Jesse Krakow on bass, and Keith Abrams on drums.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Häßliche-Luftmasken/102706176523568

Big Plastic Finger
Big Plastic Finger is a collaboration between Bonnie Kane, Mark McClemens, Brian McCorkle, and Scott Prato. Their music has been described as "post post post everything" - it burns up the traditional new-trad and blasts forth a simultaneous 4-headed monster of electro space-jazz ham-fisted delicacy. Genres are melting, and ears can only explode.
http://bigplasticfinger.bandcamp.com

Giant Squid Autopsy

Giant Squid Autopsy dabbles in instrumental contemplations. Inspired by sounds, whatever their source. Inspired by the idea of sound itself. Co-mingling them like spontaneous thoughts spoken lovingly aloud before perfecting and fretting over them. This is a labor of love beginning to end. We are what we play, blemishes and all.
http://www.facebook.com/giantsquid.autopsy

George Sand

George Sand is undulating piano music, lyric theramin, poetic imagery, inspired guitar and sudden harmonies.
http://georgesand.bandcamp.com

Xambuca

XAMBUCA is a fictional group with no face or leader. Most of its product thus far is vapor, and will remain unavailable to the public. All accounts of its claimed existence is based on false sightings, rumors and here say. XAMBUCA does not really exist in the material space time continuum. Instead, XAMBUCA conceptually feeds on the subconscious figment of a host's imagination; a host that has a tendency to encounter its name or symbols in passing by mere coincidence. XAMBUCA owns an aspect of yourself as you have decided to be exposed to it and there is no turning back now.... you MUST watch and listen.
http://www.erototox.com/artists/xambuca

Samvega

Samvega is an independent band with a thirst to inspire its audiences. Their music is dark, mind enthralling, experimental rock. Though it combines multiple genres of cabaret, gypsy, and 1970's prog rock, it is a sound and space entirely unorthodox and original. Samvega's writing method lends to their sound. They hole up in their recording studio in northern California and push record. Everyone plays until they are all broken down together when the real meat of the subconscious is released and this forms their songs. Artists as well, the members have created multiple spectacles of art and music throughout the United States and manage to drag these elements along with them on tour. Samvega has two released albums and they will be touring from California to New York upon the release of their third album this September/October.
http://www.samvega.com