Look and say "Cheese"

After 22 years, Lonny (L) and Scott (R) share a "Cheese" moment as they smile for the camera on 03/05/10.

Fiber - Norcross Summit Tonight

Tonight in Philadelphia, the first Fiber - Norcross Summit since 1988 will convene.  All citizens are warned!

Listen to our first "landmark" recording here.

Dungeon Aire Revisited

Here's another "classic" photo from the first and only Dungeon Aire gig on 12/31/87.  Pictured from L to R:  Matt Norcross - Bass, Matt Skirpan - Guitar, and Brad Shaeffer - Vocals.

Any Questions? - Strafing Children

Strafing Children was originally recorded for Any Questions? 1992 Prey For Death release but it wasn't until we were preparing for our live tour with Punch Drunk in Summer 1993 that we finally made the video for it.

We had about a month to shoot and edit 12 of 13 videos for our hour long set list. Sharing The Plasma Pool had already been completed the previous year. The final videos were then projected onto a 9' x 12' video screen and used as a backdrop of visual hallucinations for our Hypermedia Industrial Death Horror Show.

The video for Strafing Children was quickly assembled from three sources. We used aerial video footage from the first Gulf War, dive bombing and strafing scenes from an old war movie, and some classic footage that we shot at the Griffiths Compound. This final source of video was created by duct taping our camcorder onto a lazy susan and manually spinning it to capture the 360 degree dizzyingly eerie and colorful smoke filled footage of MC2P4 as he feasts upon bloodied remains.

Though we had limited time to work on this video, it turned out to be quite an effective and literal translation of the song. One of which we are still proud of today.

You Have Nowhere To Go

Any Questions? - Darkness release from 1992 was the precursor to what eventually became our Imbued Vagary project. During this period, I spent a significant amount of time creating audio sculptures which reflected my increasingly bleak dystopian views.

You Have Nowhere To Go is a brooding and eerie soundscape which captures a very intimate journey into one of those darker places. It is the shortest of three songs which made it onto the final release and is the only one to feature movie dialogue samples. The other two songs, Ice Rift and Procession, are long, sprawling instrumentals.

So, wait for the Witching Hour, when all is still and silent, then follow the trail of bread crumbs I left behind...

FFS II Synth Jam 2010 spawns TR-7

The final electronic improvisation recorded at FFS II Synth Jam 2010 was a sprawling 9 minute sonic soundscape. Propelled forward by the effervescent rhythms of LTJTHC and the surging Prophet 600 synth bass of Ttam Troll, this synthesized wash provided the framework in which Thee Sub One Genius and MC2P4 navigated with subtle mechanized precision.

This final offering is titled TR-7.

Thee Sub One Genius

Dave Chandler (aka Thee Sub One Genius) playing his Synth1 rig at FFS II Synth Jam 2010 on 02/20/10.