Lone Cosmonaut cover and tribute of the Severed Heads track 'Song of Sam' by Tom Ellard. The excellent original is available on the album , 'Op' (v1.2) by Severed Heads on Bandcamp.com 

Check out the severed heads and Tom Ellard pages on bandcamp for a wealth of superb and inspirational material. I am not worthy...



Song of Sam

tourmaline hum works are issued by The Committee For Sonic Research.
http://www.tcfsr.net/

At the moment tourmaline hum are:
Simon Lewry  aka Dental Drill
Steve Tree  aka Lone Cosmonaut

In the 1980s we were 'Except Buses'. We returned to public music production in 2012 after a 23 year hiatus. Times have changed since the days of running Steinburg Pro12 on an AtariST1020!

Our releases explore many genres from retro synth to dark ambient, experimental, and even classical.
Some can be purchased in handy bitesized chunks from TCFSR http://tcfsr.bandcamp.com/

As we work through our back catalogue some tracks from the 'Except Buses' days in the 1980s will appear on TCFSR.
Steve Tree releases personal musings as Lone Cosmonaut here @steve-tree-1
Simon occasionally sculpts sound as Dental Drill Slips. @dental-drill

We turn up occasionally in collaboration

Czech animator Barbora Hermanová has used our track 'The Banality of Progress' as the soundtrack to her short film 'Eat Meat?'. http://vimeo.com/56644243


CHRIS GATE is a German Composer & Producer and works since 1996 with focus on Electronic Music. He is also part of the VORTEX ELEMENTS Project.

HISTORY: First he started with the Collaboration-Project NOISE CONSTRUCTION in 1996 and got the chance to release two tracks in 1998 on Millennium-Storm Records (Hannover/Germany) and its first Techno-Trance Sampler. But unfortunately the distribution of the disc failed and the label decided to discontinue its work. 
To get some new experience, a partnership of NOISE CONSTRUCTION with CJ MILLER as an upcoming DJ was a nice chance to get a new focus on straight Club sounds. 
The work of Noise Construction was discontinued at the beginning of 1999 and CHRIS GATE began to focus on his Solo-Project.
In 2003 he founded the collaboration project VORTEX ELEMENTS together with Sonic Chain, which can be discovered on Soundcloud. After some years his musical view changed from Club & Trance-Style to more classical Electronic Music Style.
During the time, he did some REMIXES for SNAP & BLANK & JONES (Remix-contests) and some of his own tracks as well.
Actually it´s the intention of CHRIS GATE to get some new Contacts , to improve the musical artwork and getting in contact with people who like his tracks.

Musician... producer... and other things
You have a question/request or just want to talk about Harry Potter ? Ask me on my page :

Steve Tree; Member of British Experimental Rocket Group (BERG).

Lone Cosmonaut is my solo project, where electronics, field recordings and found sounds come together with software and hardware in perfect disharmony. 

See tcfsr.net for further details and latest news on Lone Cosmonaut, BERG and other associated releases available from bandcamp.com

This project is currently inactive.  Follow my main account @timerival