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I’m honored to following the debut of [de]blase at Pearl in August, and am psyched to rock out my new live setup. Think Nelson Riddle meets the IBM 7094. I’ve been unimpressed with mashup in general, and never was too impressed with it. But lately, a few shows by the likes of Girl Talk and Ludichrist has opened my mind a bit, and I think theres something there to explore, at least in a live setting. We’ll see.
‘Snide(Fanfare)’:
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The time of the season is upon us, and it’s with great pride we take the stand and deliver the fanfare.
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This is kind of pretty, I guess.
Robouser
Robojazz is the general term in which Charles Miller has come to use in describing his electronic music production philosophy. Yes, he has a production philosophy. It essentially boils down to attempting to produce music that’s both individual and expressive. Improvisation, free-form composition methods and generally not planning anything are essential ingredients.
Mr. Miller enjoys mixing things up live, and has performed on the weekly experiemental radio program ‘HeadSpace’ in Rochester local radio waves since 1998. He’s also performed in many live situations ranging from clubs to art galleries to cafes where they don’t appreciate barnyard sounds.
Charles Miller has been listening to records for many years. He started out listening to children’s records & 45’s (Popeye, Disney, Peter Pan Book/Record sets), then his parent’s records (Henry Mancini, ABBA, Ray Conniff, Neil Diamond, Montivonni), later started buying his own records (YMO, Prince, Kraftwerk), discovered electronic music via the downtown library (Wendy Carlos, Columbia-Princeton posse, Larry Fast & CCRMA, Tomita, Stockhausen), and then got down with the with the hip-hop, ambient, techno, drum n’ bass, jungle, dub, and IDM. He hasn’t gotten up since, but has been occasionally brought out of his myopic stupor by the likes of Stephen Merritt, Voltaire, and Yoko Kanno.