Ambient : Trance : Progressive House : Modern New Age : Electronic musician

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An interesting caveat to consider metaphysically as well as geographically:  that perhaps the most interesting efforts in contemporary music do not occur in our major cities, but in areas one might seldom think to explore.  Such a premise was suggested by Kyle Gann, in New York’s Village Voice, in reviewing my composition, ‘to release... to allow... to emerge...’, premiered by The Atlanta Contemporary Chamber Ensemble for New Music America 1992 at Georgia State University.  

I've been creating works since 1972, premiered at such venues as Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, The Electric Mountain Music Festival of Central Wyoming College, the 11th and 16th Annual International Electronic Music PLUS festivals, the Festival Synthese Bourges in France, and Atlanta’s own Eyedrum.  I've also performed with the avant-garde performing group Phobia Nova at venues including Atlanta’s Railroad Earth (in conjunction with Pauline Oliveros) and The Contemporary, and, through Composers’ Resources, an organization I founded in 1980, sponsored performances of contemporary instrumental and electronic music by some of the world’s most noted and interesting composers.  

Can a 20th/21st century composer maintain music creativity as an art form free to explore new areas and uncover new truths about sound, time, aesthetics, and our relationship to these elements as both individuals and a society, while surviving on an ever-more challenging planet?  Maybe... with some energy, some luck, some talent, and the inspiration of some very energetic, talented, and amenable colleagues!

And time.  

Time is Music.  Time is Memory.  Time is Achievement.  Time is Life.

Sensitive Chaos is the solo project of producer Jim Combs.

Pour water on the ground and it will quickly move away from you, either by being soaked into the earth or letting gravity pull it onward until it finds a level place or a pool. No two streams are exactly the same, each drop finds a unique route down the hill.

The music of Sensitive Chaos tries to follow a similar path. A few notes thrown into a sequencer or echo device repeat and tumble down, in and around each other until they pool together or soak again into the silence.

A typical Sensitive Chaos live performance starts from a blank slate; perhaps just a collection of sounds stored in a synthesizer and a mood. As notes are improvised into the machines, they repeat. More notes are added until chords and melodies coalesce. Variation is added to some of the patterns, and other patterns fade in and out.

For many, music is composed, recorded, and then performed. For Sensitive Chaos, music is composed live, from scratch, in front of an audience, and then brought back to the studio to arrange and record. The songs hope to convey the result of one form of spontaneously composed electronic music, music literally in the ether until it falls like rain through our fingers.

The project includes the instrumental talents of musicians Brian Good, Paul Vnuk, Jr, Tony Gerber, Christian Birk, Josie Quick, Ryan Taylor, Mitchell Sosebee, Monica Arrington, Kevin Spears, Dave Coustan, Bryan Hughes, Talya Sabra, Greg Hurley, Otso Pakarinen, Tim Walters, and John McNicholas.

Albums have also included the work of visual artists Charles Keiger, Demi Pietchell, Andrew Lee, and Eleanor Grosch.

A core component of Sensitive Chaos compositions is live looping improvisation, and most songs heard on the albums have their genesis in live performances or from live recordings. This unique approach to the music has endeared audiences and radio programmers around the world, with airplay across the U.S., Europe, the U.K., and Australia, including many “Best Of” nods over the years.

Sensitive Chaos has performed nearly 100 shows including multiple City Skies Festivals, Different Skies Festivals, electro-music Festivals, and Nophest Festivals.

"Ghosts of Electricity" is a soundscapes/experimental collaboration between Australian musicians Dean Richards (Disturbed Earth, Whirlywirld, Equal Local) and Michael Plater.

bandcamp link: https://ghostsofelectricity1.bandcamp.com/

“Ghosts of Electricity is an ambient project with ethereal soundscapes, electronic cascades, and multi-faceted instrumentation…The atmosphere touches corners of mystical and dark tones, in which the listener decides which associations he imagines in his head to the music.” (Gezeitenstrom Music Magazine, Germany)

"Hauntingly atmospheric...full of ghostly and beautifully dark ethereal sounds," (Dark Moments, Australia)

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