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Hello all,
I regret to say that the homepage service is being retired by apple.
My current doings will continue to be documented at phogmasheeen.com.
This page is obsolete and will live on as a historical document.
Thanks for reading!
phog masheeen
June 25 2009
Greetings and welcome to the skewed universe that includes the works of phog masheeen!
There have been some big doings here, the new CD Survey of Brutality is out. Available at CD Baby:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/phogmasheeen
More info on the CD here:
http://web.mac.com/phog_masheeen/Site/Survey_of_Brutality_intro.html
The tracks are available on Itunes and emusic for your downloading pleasure!
There is a track on the Wiretapper #19 CD through The Wire magazine http://www.thewire.co.uk
As well as some great upcoming gigs!
For the phog masheeen mailing list with only gig info and news. Joint the phog horn group at yahoo groups. http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/phog_horn/
I have been fiercely working on collaborations with Medicine Cabinate, Circle Six & Slow Car Crash. And there are upcoming web releases on Somnolent Shelter www.somnolentshelter.art.pl and Totally Gone Recordings.
Pieces have been placed in Sound Cafe 2008 in Jedburgh, Scotland http://www.khora.org.uk/pages/sound_cafe_2008.html
And “Art is not mute”- The Ersta Konsthall sound archive in Sweden.
http://www.erstakonsthall.se/
If you can make it out to the live events, hit me up for some swag. I would love to meet you.
phog
Bio:
BA San Francisco State University 1977, Creative Arts Interdisciplinary, Emphasis on Electronic Music and Film.
Entered into a checkered involvement in various bands as a bass guitar operator from 1972 through the mid ‘90’s. This eventually led to constructing various recording studios and creating CDs using a DIY pirate recording aesthetic.
Soundman at the seminal punk club The Cuckoo’s Nest 1979 through 1981.
Began working as a mobile DJ 1992. Still currently employed.
Currently gainfully employed by the State of California.
Artistic Statement:
I am currently working with electro-acoustic setting. Utilizing processed trumpet, groovebox and laptop as source material.
Jules Verne wrote "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea" in 1870.
Fifty seven years later the Martin Company manufactured a trumpet. Using cutting edge industrial age technology.
Eighty years later that trumpet is being brought to bear in a campaign to use brass in a harsh noise context.
Using tools that were marketed to pre-depression era musicians I found a link to Verne's Nautilus. The springs, valves and pipe of a trumpet make quite a statement when amplified by means of contact microphones and condenser microphones small enough to fit in the tubing of the horn. Sounds of rushing hot air, clanking metal and vibrating springs are all revealed to have an important say in the sound of the instrument.
As one might imagine the sounds might be aboard a machine age vessel. Harsh, metallic and piercing. A cross between an engine room and an auto shop.
Perhaps an engine room with a reflective side....perhaps.
It is this challenge of bringing these tools to a harsh noise context that I accept.
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