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

Whisker

Whisker, the upright bass and synth duo of Andrew Scott Young and Ben Billington finds the two-storied improvisers getting into new jurisdictions of fried sounds. Both have put in time with projects like ADT, Circuit Des Yeux, Ryley Walker and Quicksails, but with Whisker’s debut release Straight From the Bottle, the duo begins in an unglued state and deteriorates from there. Two side-long sprawls work in spurts of communication and frustration. The wooden timbre of bowed bass and the brittle, airless synth tones cycle through moments of clashing, gelling and then abruptly going in wildly different directions. Unpredictable for the duration, Billington and Young lock into a restless, uneasy dialogue that never fully resolves or relaxes.

merch: https://unifactor.bandcamp.com/album/straight-from-the-bottle

DJ Sniff

dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a musician and curator in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music. His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design, and free improvisation. His collaborations include Evan Parker, Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tetreault, Paul Hubweber, Tarek Atoui, and Senyawa. Now based in Tokyo.

website: www.djsniff.com

Jen Hill

Jen is an artist who makes music and sound, among other things, and loves to have fun doing it! in many of their recent works, they apply a deconstructive approach based on absurdity and impossibility to elements of both sonic and digital culture, focusing on social relations and user interfaces. jen is based in chicago, il where they live with their partner mitch and their idiot cat felix.

website: http://jenhill.art

merch: https://jenhill.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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THAT CLOUD http://adams-dress.com/THAT/ THAT create massed playback for socially diminished public spaces – carparks, abandoned places and open fields – with full audience participation. Selected tracks are downloaded by participants and used en masse for social-distanced performances as curated by JS ADAMS (BLK w/BEAR) and CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS-LARSEN (Grave Nature). https://tagcloud2.bandcamp.com/music Beginning in 2010 with experiments in field recordings, CHRIS VIDELL has expanded his current sonic palette to include kit-built electronics, analog and semi-modular synths, cheap keyboards, acoustic drone instruments and percussion. His influences range broadly from Kosmiche musik to noise and environmental acoustics.

THAT CLOUD members have released music on Flag Day Recordings, Front and Follow, Zeromoon, Fuzzy Panda Recording Co., Trace Recordings, Alrealon Music, Versus Records, and Little Crackd Rabbit.

website: http://adams-dress.com/THAT/