Guitarist based in Paris, Current member of SUNN O))), NAZORANAI, KHANATE. Originating New Hampshire 1974, arriving Paris in 2007 via NYC via LA via Suffolk via Seattle. Fortunate frequent collaborator; with artists and musicians from various paths of creativity in live and recorded music, visual art, design, theatre, film. Curator of IDEOLOGIC ORGAN label imprint in collaboration with Shelter Press. Thank you for your sustain, interest, attention & for listening to my efforts.

In an era where nearly any conceivable music can be mouse-clicked into existence there are fewer and fewer limitations on modern music makers. A lack of limiting parameters can be freeing or paralyzing, and living in a world of plugins and emulators can, at very least, prevent the proverbial skin from seeing the sun. 

Thomas Wincek has come out of the box, and while rediscovering the outside world, he has built a dam. It is a dam that channels the flow of notes and sends them cascading, unrelenting, washing over you form surprising directions. He has harnessed the power of forgotten tools and forced them, through patience, vision and force of will, to do his beautiful bidding. 

Wincek has composed, recorded and toured the world with bands including Volcano Choir, All Tiny Creatures, Emotional Joystick, Collections of Colonies of Bees and Field Report. He is composing and performing under his own name for this new project.

Wincek describes the general aesthetic of this new work as "a synthesized, improvised, solo version of minimalist orchestral music." The music is completely generated live: there are no prerecorded loops or triggering, and no computers. The work is based around the sounds of synthesizers from the early 1990’s, a Kurzweil K2000 and a Korg Wavestation, both obsolete and long out of production. 

"They also have a very clinical, digital sound that lends itself to layering many percussive sounds. These synths were heard in many many songs, movies and TV show themes in the 1990s. It's very evocative to me, as these were the first synths I ever started experimenting with when I was in my early teens," Wincek said.

The synthesizers are then run into a generative sequencer where parameters are adjusted and Wincek essentially opens and closes the gates of the dam and locks of the river, in real time, funneling sounds through this obsolete infrastructure. These tools are primitive by today’s standards, but the limitations are a fundamental part of this process-music. 

This projected willfully and expertly embraces dated technology, but it doesn’t fetishize it. Wincek’s relationship with the tools and sounds of this period comes from a place of love, in fact, first love. There is a deep, resonant, emotional element within this work. There is vertigo. There is immense power. There is the thrilling anesthetic of constant movement. It is much like standing on the edge of Niagara Falls and feeling the spray in the air, while the dam keeper quietly and expertly monitors the flood.

- Christopher M. Porterfield


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Hey all you low end lovers out there. This is a channel devoted to that thumping noise in your music that gets your heart all tingly. My goal is to build a community of Bassists and try to provide fresh material to keep everyone jamming on there musical journeys. New videos weekly some come on in and enjoy yourself. If by chance you learn something then I'm happy to have helped.
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Monday- Learn a New Song of the Week: Walking you through a popular song so that you can play it for yourself.
Tuesday- Get Loopy: Entertaining you with my Bass and loop skills.
Wednesday- New Riff Day: Teaching you a new riff for a backing track that will be provided that you can go jam on.
Friday- Whatever Day: You'll just have to watch and see what ever I make for that week.
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