A hint of things to come?  I designed, built and manipulated The Chaos Oscillator; this was recorded live in one take with no edits or further processing.

ChaosZeroOne

An experimental/electronic project started by guitarist, electronics and computer geek and hoarder of cra... ju... historical technological artifacts, Kat.

Kat's first forays into experimental music began before she reached age ten.  Using two open-reel tape recorders she would record anything from things being hit to snippets of radio programmes then cut the tape into bits with scissors, stick it together with Sellotape, loop it, bounce between machines and create "collages of sound".  At the time she thought of this as nothing more than a bit of fun and no recordings survive (having fallen to bits or been recorded over.)

Still at primary school she failed to learn to play guitar (discovering much later that the £5 second-hand acoustic bought by her father was utterly terrible and impossible to play anyway.)

Meanwhile her fascination with "how things work" resulted in her dismantling everything in the house, building her first radio at age five and a computer at thirteen.  Her steadily improving ability to repair discarded items of electronic equipment coincided with a reduction in the number of times she blew the house fuses.

Not long after moving to Manchester in 1990 to study at university as that great oxymoron, a "mature student", she was introduced to electric guitar while drunk.  She found to her surprise that she remembered chord shapes from her earlier attempts and could now play them.  Within two years she was playing in bands and jam sessions, surprising friends with her spontaneous improvisation.  It was around this time that Kat developed a liking for heavy use of effects and making her guitar sound like anything but a guitar.

In the years which followed, Kat had the opportunity to play around with four, eight and sixteen track recording gear, sequencers, synths and DAWs.  Little music was produced but her collection of old gear increased steadily.

September 2006 marked a turning point, Kat was dragged to her first psytrance party, discovered how to have fun and became a regular party-goer.  Her interest in creating music was rekindled with particular inspiration provided by the wide range of music she discovered in back rooms and chill spaces.

Kat's interests and hoard of random tech means she likes to combine old and new technology in interesting ways and is not averse to using open-reel machines and "radiophonic" tape manipulation techniques in conjunction with modern computer systems.

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