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I/C/O/C is not a band in itself, but a sound; threatning, pulsating and sickening; hard, raw and unpenetrable. Waves of distortion and feedback crash against a cold and rocky wall, mutating and transforming in different ways to a pulsating repetitive beat, going out of sync and losing control, but returning to a solid unity, just to crash and crumble again. This is not music for everybody.
Why this name?
It means Input/Cable/Output/Cable, it referese to how electronic devices intended for capturing or generating sound are interconnected together
Do you play live?
Maybe someday I/C/O/C will perform onstage, yet it's mainly a studio project intended for improvisations
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
it allows that anyone can access music regardless of economical borders
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
With music like this?! i challenge them to give it a listen. in any case that I/C/O/C becomes somewhat popular and well known, the fact that it's status is independent will reenforce the entire indie foundation
Band History:
I/C/O/C is a unique entity that, knowing that it has to have influences in one way or another, works on a subconscious way, without reasoning, straight and improvised. The "lead" instrument in I/C/O/C is the guitar, but it doesn't play traditional riffs or melodies; it spews atonal sounds, without musical notes while expressing deep emotions, frequently unsettling, but also intimate and vulnerable at times. The guitar is not by itself, it's backed by repetitive rhythms and loops that remind of the sounds of artists who where considered too radical for their time, the deafening industrial clang of Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubauten, Skinny Puppy and the artists on the Wax Trax! Label. The result is a sonic wall refusing to back off on a battle with itself on a cold, hostile, mechanized, repetitive but imperfect and threading to crumble universe, while ignoring the limits of structure and time.
Your influences?
Architects of noise through out the years have paved the way for I/C/O/C: Branca, Cage, Ayler, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Swans, Flipper, Merzbow, etc. But I/C/O/C's biggest influence and inspiration, keeping in mind that the main focus here is the guitar, is Joe Satriani
Favorite spot?
Cyberspace
Equipment used:
guitar, pedals, cables, amps, software, contact mics, socks, tapes and other lo-fi devices
Anything else...?
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