Ignivomous Presents

From Scratch

Our culture is soaked in digital perfection. Seamless digital imagery, sequenced samples and software-tuned pop singers mediate our references to the world and to each other. The artists in From Scratch share a common practice of using handmade electronic equipment and altering (hacking) factory-made machines; tugging at the seams of our technology. The intrinsic imprecision of their machines enables creativity, instead of their creativity being defined by the machines they use. They put themselves into their machines. The results are fascinating.

From Scratch is a program of electronically based music, video and installations featuring artists who build their own equipment from scratch. The sounds, performances and images will be noisy and amusingly hard to predict.


The Artists

Nautical Almanac (Baltimore) Hanson Records http://www.heresee.com
“[Nautical Almanac] look like creatures that have crawled out of a futuristic trashheap with an inexplicablecommunications technology... post-apocalyptic alchemists... a carefully considered chaos born of technological refinement and cannibalism.” (Baltimore City Paper)
5000 oscillators pitchshifted, reverbed, and delayed, wires everywhere, resistors ascew, chips hacked, all gets taken apart and reformed. No equipement is safe from the prying minds of Nautical Almanac. Watch out! A mere stare from their razor sharp eyes will take apart your computers.

Diagram A (western MA)	music/video performance
Diagram A is cobbled together from "disposable technology" like children's toys, video games and surplus electronics. Sonically and visually demonstrating man's war with his own technology through the language specific to machines - Noise.

Iron Lap (Brooklyn)	music performance
Sounds Okay http://www.soundsokay.com Sonic slagheaps.  Careening, voluptuous spasms of barely controllable electronoise. Raw and epic in scale. And there's a guitar so it's rock and roll. No laptops.

Gavin R. Russom & Delia R. Gonzalez (NY)	music performance

Cory Arcangel (NY)	music/video performance/installation
Beige Records http://www.beigerecords.com/cory His work and collaborations with BEIGE have been called "a testament to nerdiness" by The New York Times, "genius" by XLR8R magazine, "riotous" by the Village Voice, and "Dope, dope, dope, dope" by Paul D. Miller.

LoVid (NY)	video/sound performance
kaboom!press   http://www.ignivomous.org/lovid.html A sound and video project by Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Fragile compositions of the decay of sound and image present a portrait of the human figure trapped in the chaos of electronic noise.

Douglas Irving Repetto (NY)	installation: crash and bloom
crash and bloom 2001-2002 plastic boxes, colored LEDs, piezo speakers, custom circuitry dimensions variable crash and bloom is an electronic sculpture that exhibits emergent behavior similar to the "crash and bloom" cycles experienced by many biological systems.

The Sponsors
Gale-Martin Fine Art
Big Mama Food Shop