october71

Johnston, RI USA

April 16, 2004

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I am an experimental electronic musician. I use a Gameboy/Nanoloop and Circuitbent instruments as well as more conventional electronic instruments. Most tracks are "sequenced" and recorded live. Post-production processing is done in Sound Forge, and is usually limited to editing for length, adjusting eq and volume, and adding reverb or echo. I also use Sound Forge a few freeware programs for generating drones and experimenting.

Band/artist history

I've been making electronic music since about 2000. In the beginning it was learning how to use virtual analog synths, and then I got into Nanoloop (the program I use on the Gameboy) and then into circuitbending. Now I'm even using "real" gear!

Have you performed in front of an audience?

I do play live, but not as often as I'd like to. I'm pretty bad about the whole self-promotion thing. I really do like playing live though, and my audience usually seems to enjoy it...and that in turn makes me very happy.

Your musical influences

So many things influence my music, and not just other musicians...but, here's some musicians that have had a very big influence on me: Johnny Rotten, Brian Eno, Gary Numan, Herbie Hancock, Mad Professor, Autechre, Joy Division, Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem, Tom Waits, Oval, Kraftwerk, Front 242, Phillip Glass, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Squarepusher, Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys.

What equipment do you use?

I haven't necessarily used everything on this list to make songs, but this is my list of gear: Original Gray Gameboy + Nanoloop, Realistic Stereo Reverb System, Realistic Mono Reverb, Robomber, Casio SK-1, CDemon, Microhard Drum Kit, iBreak, Hellphön, Korg ER-1 Rhythm Synthesizer, Yamaha AN200 Analog-modeling Synthesizer, Korg Poly-800 Analog Synthesizer, x0xb0x Analog Synthesizer, Boss DR-110 Analog Drum Machine, Korg ES-1 Sampler, Casio RZ-1 Drum Machine, BDRM-1 Ring Modulator, Alesis Ineko, DOD digital delay fx pedal, Soundforge, Behringer UB1622FX-PRO Mixer, Behringer MDX1600 Autocom Pro XL 
Compressor 
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Anything else?

I was featured in an article on wired.com on circuitbending:

http://tinyurl.com/38bgl

#experimental #noise #lofi #circuitBending #nanoloop #gameboy #october71 #circuitbent

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yea motherf***ing sick ass music!
check out our post-armageddoncore industrial doom trashbreakcore
peace

Realy dig your Robo shuffle song, i added it to my station, Visit my site if you like,
cheers,
the Dutch

stunning work Phoebe, we still want a CDemon :)

Swing past our page and send us a mail

hey hceck out gamboy music i made

http://20kbps.sofapause.ch

i rule

hey phoebe,
wow. i can't listen to the tracks because i'm at work right now.. but i will.
i'm glad i came across the info to get to your site.. i got to it through a website called illegal art.. my friend is on there.
anyways, yea, saw you were at the bent fest.. 
perhaps you met arius?  i just purchased a little pedal that he made.
and i've been talking to reed and will be doing a little bending session with him this summer..
just getting into it, but i plan to get freaky soon enough.
keep in touch..

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Johnston, RI USA

Electronic • Experimental Sounds

April 16, 2004

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