Creators of San Francisco's Robotspeak Store & Magazine to Perform at Ground Kontrol
 Robotspeak store, SF A staple of San Francisco's vibrant electronic music community, for over three years the Robotspeak store has acted as music gear purveyor, concert venue and production school for the city's computer musician contingent.
On Thursday, October 20th, the masterminds behind the Robotspeak phenomena will shut down their shop and fly out to perform at Ground Kontrol. Known individually for their work as Chachi Jones (Lunaticworks/BMG), Circuit 73 (Quake Trap/Siladi), Schrödinger's Mac (Siladi), and The Feature (Siladi), Robotspeak's crew of electronic musicians literally live and breathe their craft every day and put their hearts into their performances.
Who: Chachi Jones (Donald Bell) is a musician, writer and circuitbender known best for his 2003 release "Claustrophilia" (Lunaticworks) and his reputation as an instrument designer (building glitchy sound devices from discarded children's toys) that landed him on the cover of XLR8R magazine's 2004 music technology supplement. He also works full-time as the Publisher and Editor of Robotspeak, a magazine based based around the computer music gear shop that shares its name. When he's not writing editorials, interviewing electronic musicians or reviewing new music technology he busies himself writing dense, melodic electronic music that sits somewhere between the dancefloor and the blissed-out headphone introversion. www.ChachiJones.com
Schrödinger's Mac (Alan Stewart) Currently co-owner of Robotspeak, a community-based, independent computer music store located in the Lower Haight district, Schrödinger's music is unpredictable. Evolved of equal parts rock genetics and classical training, his compositions flip unexpectedly from chaotic noise to melodic simplicity. They are formed from diverse sonic materials: acoustic instruments, virtual instruments, snippets of children's records, sampled shop visitors, his drunken girlfriend, and of course, his cat. www.siladi.com/smac.html
Mork Choklad collects his personal moments in recordings. Only to later bastardize them from their source, rework them and mold them into the good little sounds that any abusive parent would be proud of. Unintentionally blending styles and techniques, his songs are collections of disbanded memories and social obsessions. Indecisiveness has its privileges when the only pan you own is a melting pot. www.siladi.com/mork.html
The Feature (Mork Choklad and Todd Kurnat) The primary agenda of The Feature is to maintain a process that is unpremeditated and fluid to accommodate their ideas as they think of them. Keeping each session fresh, The Feature improvises using field recordings, electronics, acoustic instruments and a whole lotta jokin around. Their combined output creates an environment of organic audio mischief that is never revisited. www.siladi.com/feature.html
The Tourist (Mickey Darius) in his own savage words: "I always loved weird glitchy sounds that I'd hear from old computers, radios (as I cruised through stations), any sort of machinery, etc...THE LOUDER THE BETTER was my motto (and still is). Growing up, I liked the imperfections of these types of sound sources and thought that this type of crap actually sounds like music to me. Then I found electronic music." www.quaketrap.com/tourist.html
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