Rupert Chappelle
one man band and occassional duo performer composer -vocals theremin synthesizer electronic electronica avant-garde grunge punk rock old-timey electrograss elec
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One man synthesizer band and thereminist - avant- garde to old-timey.
Band/artist history
Rupert - started out playing medieval and renassiance music and then bought a synthesizer and started doing electronic music after hearing phaedra, aqua, picture music and autobahn. I currently do pop/rock, avant-garde, electronica/techno (old school), electropunk, old-timey and medieval music using one synthesizer, a theremin and voice.
favorite living "name" artists are eno, bjork and tori amos. i don't sound like any of them.
first dc metro area artist to perform punk, new wave, alt/grunge and electonica in the metro dc area.
invented dynamic minimalism music style using first a c-64 and later atari st computers merging 12 tone compositional technique with midi sequencing and a process that was the inverse of john cage's.
first to stream full songs and albums on the web without commercial consideration with about 6 hours of music at irupert internet radio, the first prototyped internet radio site in 1995-1996, with myhouse communications - now defunct. back then, people would put up a minute's worth of a song and then actually expect you to BUY it. i gave it away.
first to protoype online video streams as a beta project - irupert internet video - now defunct.
member of the mythical yippies.
Have you performed in front of an audience?
yes, around yes.
Your musical influences
dick hyman, silver apples, stockhausen, brian eno, morton subotnik, kraftwerk, fad gadget, metal urbain, boulez, nono, ligeti, xenakis, berio, luening, ussachevsky, dock boggs, arthur brown's kingdom come, cluster, neu, can, tangerine dream, seventh wave, suicide, hawkwind, gary numan, early music quartet, steeleye span, js bach, telemann and the troubadors of the 12th and 13th centuries.
What equipment do you use?
korg karma moog etherwave theremin
Anything else?
boss dd-20
yamaha beat boxes
korg ms2000
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