INTENSITY
INTENSITY ! steps outside of popular music structures, improvises its compositions, and experiments with whatever is available.
This allows us to explore free jazz and progressive music that goes in any direction to places where musical pitch is not always restricted to conventional tonal systems.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Int the 70's, the project known as INTENSITY! started a a loose collective of musicians seeking a format for experimentation without boundaries. In the early to mid-90's, we took a more rigorous look at the project and moved to a defined line-up. Members assembled every few months for an evening of musical madness, fueled at first by a little chutzpah and a lot of Cuervo. This incarnaton learned to eschew the Cuervo without sacrificing the basic 'wrongness' of the whole concept, and has now brought it out into the public domain.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Based in the U.S., we play at art installations at galleries and festivals in the Davenport Iowa and Rock Island IL area. We also improvise scores to silent movies through partnership with Kino International.
Your musical influences
King Crimson, Bill Nelson, Spocks Beard, Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant, The Dregs, The Flock, Tangerine Dream. But do we sound like them? Er...... no.
What equipment do you use?
Zoom guitar effects, Line 6, Roland guitar synth, Alesis AirSynth, Ebow, Roland Space Echo, The Plex
Anything else?
Perform every few months at Quad City Brew and View in Rock Island IL (www.qcbrewview.com) where we have provided musical accompaniment (so far) to; Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and Metropolis.
RADIO INTERVIEW
Thursday AUG 21 on WVIK radio 90.3 FM (Augustana College)FM at 7:00-8:00 pm CDT.
Can be heard by request on KUNI radio
(90.9 FM in Eastern Iowa / 91.5 FM and 1010 AM in North Iowa / 101.7 FM in Des Moines
98.7 FM in Dubuque / 94.5 FM and 102.1 FM in the Quad Cities)
