After meeting in college in 1996, The Voight Kampff Collective began performing in Nashville, TN, at visual and performing art shows. The current line up includes Brady Sharp on guitar and Pure Data, Matt Hamilton on processed guitar and other electronics, along with Andrew Mays on computer, woodwinds and electronic drums. Over the years the lineup has included rotating members and guests.
There is no distinct message or meaning behind the music. The Voight-Kampff Music Collective encourages listeners to free associate the music with personal mood, memories, and imagery. The music is completely improvised, with little or no indication ahead of time where it will go.
At times, vague structure and a few rules of constraint may be used to set up a certain relationship, but in the end, as in all performed music, it’s up to the player. The result is a collage of dynamically-phrased ideas that come together to trigger subjective images in each listener’s mind.
Disaster Trees is the tidal electronic duo of Kim Rueger (Belly Full Of Stars) and Chris Rueger (wkujater). They submerge headlong into modular drones, abyssal analog tones, with touches of processed glitch-shimmer that dance and bob on the surface. Improvising with found sound samples, analog and FM synths, cut-up piano compositions, developing loops, modular manipulation, and occasional processed guitar, they explore the unseen sonic depths of the inner sea.
Blind Trace is an evolving project of Ben Weber and Tommy Stangroom. Traditionally on guitar and drums, the duo’s instrumentation has grown wider. Playing together for years in Supermelt, this is new territory in more subtle and exploratory music. This will be an improvised set on synth and hammered dulcimer.