john latartara
khristian weeks
michael gardiner
andrew weathers
John Latartara has released a wide variety of music ranging from drone-obsessed works, to ambient/chamber pieces, to glitch/noise influenced music, to deconstructions of Western canonic pieces. His releases can be found on the VisceralMedia, Centaur, and Sachimay record labels and they have been reviewed in The Wire (UK), Signal To Noise (USA), Chaotic Order (UK), Boston Globe (USA), Sound Projector (UK), Paris Transatlantic (Fr), LATimes (USA), and All Music Guide (USA). He is currently in two collaborations with khristian weeks (cornstar) and michael gardiner (parallel lives).
Khristian Weeks is a sound artist/designer and improviser living in Durham, NC. His works span a wide range of genres, including chambermusic, ambient minimalism, sound installation, field and environmental recording, incidental music, experimental folk, and live electronic improvisation. His performance installations blend these various and often disparate elements into multi-textural soundscapes that blur the distinction between music and sound art.
Michael Gardiner, self-appointed sonic cartographer, divides his time between 12th century chant research, laptop composition, and the study of Japanese noh drama.
Andrew Weathers is a young American composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC currently based in Oakland, CA. His music exists in a space between improvisation and composition - equally influenced by the 20th century American minimalists and underground noise. He has a BM in Music Composition from the University of North Carolina - Greensboro, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Electronic Music at Mills College.
Andrew performs rigorously in a variety of contexts, both composed and improvised. In addition to solo performances, he heads up the Andrew Weathers Ensemble. He also performs and records regularly with Kirtan Choir, Weathers/Glover, and Tethers. In the past, he has performed with Acid of All Ruins, Bicameral Mind, Northern Valentine, Tatsuya Nakatani, Laurent Estoppey, and Hal McGee, among others.
In addition to his busy performing schedule, Weathers helps run Full Spectrum Records, a label dedicated to releasing works by young musicians in unique forms and limited editions.
