Jeff Carey

Jeff Carey makes synthetic noise music with an physically controlled software based instrument of his own development called ctrlKey. His music is abstract and sculptural, full of shapes and gesture, colored by noise bursts, percussive glitches and shifting resonance. In recent work, he has incorporated lighting projection to explore the space between visceral and the external embodiment of sound. He builds physically controllable custom software synthesis instruments and is interested in exploring immediate and flexible sound production with virtuosity in electronic music.

"He's acting on raw instinct here - he refuses the clinical approach to programming software or composing music, and strives to throw himself bodily at his machines, replacing all mechanical moving parts with human flesh, blood, and bone. In pursuit of this all-organic goal, virtually everything else is jettisoned, starting with recognizable notes or melody." – Sound Projector magazine editor Ed Pinsent

He is an active member of Baltimore's music scene. He organizes local concerts for touring electronic musicians and is a co-curator of the High Zero Festival for improvised and experimental music and for the Diffusion Festival for electronic multichannel music.

Index[off], released on July 3rd is only available via https://jeffcarey.bandcamp.com/album/index-off

website: http://jeffcarey.foundation-one.org

merch: https://jeffcarey.bandcamp.com

Tom Borax

Tom Borax (tom boram) is a baltimore native/resident. his work includes music, video, film, installation, performance art, sound design etc. he is a multi-instrumentalist focused on live improvisation, primarily on the harpsichord and modular synth. all of his work focuses in some amount on these 5 things: absurd humor, extrasensory perception, the experience of death, sensory perception, the experience of birth.

Member of long-standing rock/jazz/noise/electronic duo Leprechuan catering. aside from his music and art, borax has worked as a case manager for senior citizens w/schizophrenia, a chef, a stock clerk, and currently an art/media/film educator. he is a founder of the High Zero Festival of Experimental Music. he has an MFA in interactive digital art. he studied Hindustani music in Varanasi, UP, India.

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Lucky Bone

tapes/turntables/vcrs/home-made synthesizers...

merch: https://lucky-bone.bandcamp.com/

Luer

Luer is Matthew Taggart. An extension of his other project PCRV. Luer explores improvisation and chance within a modular setting. Inspired by soundtrack music, Elaine Radigue, Noise and many other aspects of experimental music. Luer is based out of Fargo ND.

merch: https://pcrv.bandcamp.com/

C. Vadi

C. Vadi is a chiaroscuro drone pop artist from the middle-lands of the United States.

merch: https://cvadi.bandcamp.com/

Dan of Earth

Dan of Earth has spent the last 20 years trying very hard to not learn to play any "real" instruments, and has largely succeeded in this. He uses home-built electronic and acoustic devices, and writes simple c++ programs when hardware 'musical' solutions are impractical. Swapped out his modular synth in 2014 for an all-Bibletron platform.

website: http://www.sdiy.org/colbecklabs/doe/index.html

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Avola

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