To judge the 2002 BEIGE World Cassette Jockey Championships, we have scoured the world over for open-minded and knowledgeable people who could cast a fair ballot on the topic of audio casssette performance. Here's who we got:
Nic Collins Studied composition with Alvin Lucier and worked for several years with David Tudor. Former Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam) and DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. Currently editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal and on faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Nic scratched live radio broadcasts and cell phone conversations in "Devil's Music" in 1985 (when Scanner was still in short pants), and has been hacking CD players for glitches since 1988 (when Thrill Jockey was in diapers.) His most recent recordings are available on PlateLunch and Periplum. |
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Dragan Espenschied ( http://a-blast.org/~drx/ ) Founded Home Computer Folk Duo "Bodenstandig 2000" in 1995 together with Bernhard Kirsch. Released debut album on Rephlex Records London 1999, shows around the globe. Worked from 1998-2000 in Fraunhofer VR Lab Stuttgart. Together with Alvar Freude finished art school 2001 with internationally awarded experiment on internet censorship. Today home computer musician, teacher at Merz Akademie and modestly engaged in information freedom activism with odem.org. DRX enjoys dj'ing German folk music and Top euro-dance hits in his spare time, along with making online friends at www.micromusic.net. |
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Ed Marszewski Edmar is the publisher of Lumpen and Select magazines and formerly ran things at Supersphere. He is currently running things at the Version>02 Festival and enjoys real-time strategy war games, tearing down the pig system, and easy listening music. As a cassette battle judge, Ed makes up for a lack of direct musical experience with lots of enthusiasm about new media art. |
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Misty Martinez (http://pages.ripco.net/~nailhead/misty/) Performance artist-cum-singer/songwriter-cum-stripper with several solo releases and performances at London's Institute of Contemporary Art, Walker Arts Center [Minneapolis], and the Beer & Sausage Noise Experimental Music Festival [Brooklyn]. Misty also functions as a "rent-a-strumpet" for several improvisational noise/experimental bands, including To Live and Shave in LA 2, Cock E.S.P., Nautical Almanac, and Suckdog. Currently a back-up singer in fantasy pop group Strawberry. Other performances with: Harvey Sid Fisher, Arsenal Road performance art troupe, Mark Shippy [U.S. Maple], Weasel Walter, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Stagecoach, Sunship Sextet, New Fist of Glory, Raunch Factory, and as rapper Teen LaQuiefa in Beat Vice. Recap: Misty makes tracks, sometimes shows her boobies, and plays with lots of people you think are cool. |
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Randall Roberts Randall Roberts, aka Lil' Edit, is a founding member of the Rotund Sound System, who play records, and Big Pink Brains, who throw fun parties. He also hosts Sovereign Glory, a radio show heard in all 78 St. Louis regional municipalities, and gains his sense of authority from his job as an editorial hack at a St. Louis weekly paper. |
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