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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


The Committee For Sonic Research http://www.tcfsr.net/ is a publishing house that promotes the work of several artists. Started in the 1980s our primary output was the work of Except Buses, an experimental electronic music group. We lay dormant for almost two decades before being returning to promote the work of tourmaline hum, solo projects by its members and other artists.

Our main portfolio is music-based, but future plans include visual and multi-media work.

You can access our artists via our website, amazingtunes, Bandcamp, elsewhere on
Soundcloud and links on the website. We are pleased to offer restored selected pieces recorded by Except Buses in the 1980s.

Dental Drill Slips is a solo project of tourmaline hum member Simon Lewry @dental-drill

Lone Cosmonaut is a solo project of tourmaline hum member Steve Tree @steve-tree-1

Richard Zarywacz, a lapsed member of tourmaline hum, has reportedly been seen lurking near the Admirals of Induced Hysteria.

Trixie Delight is not a member of tourmaline hum @trixie-delight

Creative Commons License attribution: Performer name and title of work (exactly as it appears on SoundCloud) followed by "provided for non-commercial use by The Committee for Sonic Research".

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

The " red house " of :
Welsh Artist Anthony Richards
Here I am on Soundcloud 9
perched in Ammanford.
A small post industrial town in South Wales
the undisputed home of the underground
there used to be more coal mines here
than you could shake a stick at, before
they were all shut down.
Truly well deeply deeper underground.
A Massive thank you to all the music makers,
 music lovers, the whole world over.
Loving all of your divine music.
At the house of dancing paintbrushes.
If I am not here, then I might well
also be here, when I am not here....
www.facebook.com/antswelshart
Or I might also be here of course. If I am neither here nor there...
www.facebook.com/anthony.richards.581
Love and Big Cwtches ! From, the house of dancing brushes, small town South Wales, the birthplace and home of the " Redhouse Ultra-underground " Movement/Non Movement. Safe Journeys & Happy Adventuring, to all of you most fabulous folks out there, peace, love, and respect to you all. X

No, of course I am not nuts..
But, my dear old passed dad. Often asked of me. With a quizzingly confused, expression upon his face.. " Are you some kind of a bloody loony ? " I never gave his quizzing a definitive answer, it was more fun to keep him guessing.