aenigmaplasme
schizophonia is the modus operandi. cultural and sonic. music of babel and babylon.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
long ago the name "orphan sound system" (nyc) came for the trio of my self, john elmanahi, john palumbo. and the occasional sit-in by halliday dresser and andrew last name i forget. but mr. palumbo said "you are orphan sound system". the group members went down separate paths. i adopted the name for my own label. only some years laters did i deem it proper to take up the name again. orphan sound system was born again in berlin in 2006. this time with my own songs, laptop, guitars and two drummers for the live shows: flo blank and caspar nilson wolf. a name change again seems in order. orphan sound system was open ended, free jazz psychedelia, organic trance, polyrythmic "hip-hop", industrial and electronic noise. the reborn orphan sound system (berlin) took up a more focused investigation of ethnogrammar, mainly to amuse a film-maker friend, noe cuellar garza and to explore trance music as mirror for the old orientalisms. now the path for us seems to be set outside of those parameters. again opening to creative indeterminacy. aenigmaplasme just seems like a nice provisional name for something un-nameable anyway.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
wherever, whenever a people gather...sometimes alone in darkness...i like all the special moments and in their peculiarity they could generate novels or talmudic glosses on single seemingly insignificant events...so i stop there...as it is impossible to speak for us all anyway...
Your musical influences
muslimgauze, crash worship, sun city girls, sun ra, asian dub syndicate, but not really...
What equipment do you use?
depends
Anything else?
everything possible to be imagined is an image of truth--william blake
