Upcoming Events - Dan Burke and Thomas Dimuzio (No Fun Productions)

Further exploring the collaborative powers of Illusion Of Safety mastermind Dan Burke and prolific sound crafter Thomas Dimuzio, Upcoming Events is an unending spur of equal parts gorgeous and uncomfortably perplexing sound spread of 15 tracks. Crackles of electronic fire, tremolo-infused waves of sustained guitar, broken music boxes and found sounds among all other sorts of unfounded wails of gargantuan melancholy drone, Burke and Dimuzio's collaboration is a forceful collection of early industrial sound ruination combined with classic Krautrock ambiance of the Tangerine Dream/Cluster ilk reassuringly composed into something wholly modern and powerful.

Upcoming Shows

Friday, July 16, 2010
Mission Creek Festival
James Goode: No Skeptics in the Deep End
(featuring, Thomas Dimuzio, James Goode,
Alan Herrick, Warren Huegel, Cheryl Leonard,
Dominique Leone, Felix Macnee, Jesse Quattro,
Dean Santomieri, and Matthew Souzis)
Particle
540 Laguna Street (between Hayes and Fell)
Basement
San Francisco, CA
$6
Doors at 9:30, Music at 10

Saturday, August 21, 2010
Moe! Staiano Ensemble
Temescal Arts Center
511 48th Street
Oakland, CA
$6-10 sliding scale

Saturday, August 28, 2010
Skronkathon BBQ
Thomas Scandura/Matt Ingalls/Thomas Dimuzio
plus many, many others
21 Grand
416 25th Street
Oakland, CA
$6-10 sliding scale

Absolutely Free mp3's

Gench Concert Archives
Thomas Dimuzio and friends

Passed Aside
Wobbly and Thomas Dimuzio
Art Bears remixes in long form

Mono::Poly MP Free
MP3 adjuncts to Mono::Poly

Brilliant Noise remixes
Fat Cat Records offers free alternate soundtracks
of Semiconductor's stunning "Brilliant Noise".

Rotate Vortex
Matmos/Wobbly/Thomas Dimuzio
Live at Yerba Buena Center For The Arts,
San Francisco
November 2003

The Chopping Channel
Negativland presents Over The Edge Radio.
Recorded live on KPFA March 23, 2006

Soundcrack Roaming Radio
Live long-form Dimuzio performance/webcast
from the artist's living room (4.23.2008)

Brickolage
Chris Cutler and Thomas Dimuzio
T'um

Shoil
Thomas Dimuzio
T'um

Live at WKCR-FM Oct 22 2003
Thomas Dimuzio
Live Constructions WKCR-FM

Live at WKCR-FM Mar 23 2001
Scott Arford and Thomas Dimuzio
Live Constructions WKCR-FM

Planes Fly, Babies Cry
Scott Arford and Thomas Dimuzio
Cabinet Magazine/Immaterial

Remissions - Dimmer (Isounderscore Records)

Double LP release from Isounderscore Records. "...Dimmer brings together two stalwarts of the California experimental community: Thomas Dimuzio and Joseph Hammer. The former skirts the boundaries between electro-acoustic technologies and improvisational abstraction, having collaborated with the likes of Chris Cutler, Matmos, Wobbly, Scott Arford, Illusion Of Safety and countless others. Mr. Hammer is one of the prominent members of the willfully oblique Los Angeles Free Music Society, having participated in such projects as Solid Eye, Points Of Friction, and Steaming Coils. Hammer's instrument of choice is the reel-to-reel tape deck, through which he can muster an uncanny palette of sound, noise, and drone. The two have worked together off and on for a good part of the last decade, with a handful of performances throughout California and a couple of releases - Remissions being their second and collecting some of the best moments from those live gigs... This is really exceptional stuff, and certainly some of the best that we've encountered from either artists individually." —Aquarius Records

The Shining Path - Dimmer (Melon Expander)

Swallowing audiences with their dark explorations of sound, Dimmer specializes in a symbiotic sound process as they continually loop, reloop, sample and resample within an interactive feedback circuit linking both artists. For their debut CD, Dimmer melds their recursive circuits into rich and seething sonic masses with subtle waves pulsing sound within sound. Ripe with theme and variation, The Shining Path suspends the listener over dim and dank planes on an aural trip spanning and scanning from a celestial vista. Nearly every aspect of Dimmer's live performances grace The Shining Path, yet this is not a live document, but rather a pastiche and reworking of everything Dimmer has accomplished in their years of performing as a duo. Jointly released by Melon Expander, Gench, and LAFMS.

Slew - Thomas Dimuzio (ReR Megacorp/Gench)

Slew pools more than a decade of studio works spanning compilations issued by RRRecords, Tzadik, Alku, Realization, Digital Narcis, Self Abuse, Cuneiform and other groundbreaking labels. More than a compilation of compilation tracks, Slew documents the evolution of an artist dedicated to an immersive world of sound and aural vision. Bringing together many out of print and hard to find gems, Slew blurs the bounds of electro-acoustic, digital musique concrete, drone, noise, dark ambient and industrial. Dimuzio’s sonic reworkings range from an Elvis impersonator (on parade), junkyard ambiance, electric guitar, piano, voice, clarinet, feedback and shortwave sounds to cellist Tom Cora and the music of Dr. Nerve. Also featured is a new bonus track constructed from Dimuzio’s locked-groove submissions for the releases RRR-500 (RRRecords) and LockERS (E.R.S.). Slew charts the path of a prolific sound artist and composer who has never been content to rest on his laurels, and points a reference to where his future musical journeys may take him.

RECENT RELEASES...

Mono :: Poly
Thomas Dimuzio

This joint Gench/Asphodel double CD release,"Mono :: Poly", chronicles five years of the solo and collaborative performances of Thomas Dimuzio. One disc solo, and the second with an all-star cast of collaborators, featuring Scott Arford, Dan Burke, Chris Cutler, Nick Didkovsky, DJ Qbert, Fred Frith, Joseph Hammer, Anna Homler, Scot Jenerik, The Jet Black Hair People, Kadet Kuhne , Rick Potts, Atau Tanaka , Wobbly, Yasuhiro Otani and Zipperspy.

“... a luminous snapshot of an artist, who deserves widespread exposure. Highly recommended.” — All About Jazz

“One of the top ten albums of 2002.” — Citypages

Gench Concert Archives featuring more than two hours of free mp3 files!!!

The Gench Concert Archives features solo and collaborative performances by Thomas Dimuzio and friends. Experience each concert in its entirety as it unfolds from beginning to end. Available as specially priced CD-R's through the Gench Store with generous MP3 excerpts available as free downloads. Volume one comprises ten concerts featuring Anla Courtis, Elliott Sharp, Michael T. Jackson, Mitchell Brown, and Scott Arford & Chris Fitzpatrick.

“Attending a Thomas Dimuzio performance is like lying underneath a web of freeway bridges with your eyes closed... There is a sense of probable dread... but also one of hypnotized calm... ” — Pitchfork Media

Dust
Chris Cutler and Thomas Dimuzio

"The first of two tracks is a long Requiem which for me turned out to be a very serious piece of work - and unrepeatable, captured at a concert in New Mexico. Whatever were we thinking? It's followed by a studio piece, mixing raw binaural sound with sophisticated and radical secondary processing. I use my extended electrified kit and Tom his state of the art sample and real-time processing rig and we try to work as a single, highly complex and sophisticated instrument, with two brains and a mind of its own." —Chris Cutler

“...filled with unheard sounds and textures.” (4 stars) — All Music Guide

“One of the top 100 albums of 2002.” — LA Weekly

Ice Cream Time
Nick Didkovsky/Arte Saxophone Quartett/Thomas Dimuzio

The hour-long epic "Ice Cream Time" was released on New World Records in August, 2007. After a successful concert at FIMAV in Victoriaville in 2008, the ensemble embarked on several European tours with shows in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.

Dimmer Remissions double LP released by Isounderscore

Live performances of Dimmer in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Los Angeles have been compiled to comprise "Remissions" which was released on double LP format by Isounderscore in June 2009.

1000 locked-grooves comp from RRRecords

RRRecords just released a single LP of 1000 locked-grooves by 20 sounds artists including Dimuzio, Prurient, Haters, RWL, Jason Lescaleet, Otomo Yoshihide, Francisco Lopez, and many more.

Professional CD Mastering
Gear :: Ears :: Years

Gench Mastering Studios: Deploying the best in analog and digital gear, goldens ears, and years of experience. Have Thomas Dimuzio master your next CD release. gench.com. Recent clients include PTV3, Negativland, Fred Frith, Xiu Xiu, Sagan, Blevin Blectum, Matmos, Wobbly, From Monument To Masses, Gonervill (featuring Mirv and Brain), Mono Pause, ISIS, Warner Jepson, Good For Cows, Nick Didkovsky, and many others.

Poptastic — The Teen-Pop-Noise Virus OUT NOW!!!

POPTASTIC PRODUCTIONS
Chris Fitzpatrick and Thomas Dimuzio have (re)completed production and mastering of Poptastic's debut Teen-Pop-Noise Virus. Available now on Seeland and peaking at number 11 on the CMJ RPM charts.

Negativland presents Thigmotactic

The fifteen songs and two instrumentals were written, composed and performed by Negativland's Mark Hosler, with contributions from the rest of the group, and with San Francisco noisemaker Thomas Dimuzio contributing lots of rather unexpectedly normal sounding instruments, arrangements and production. Released on Seeland Records. "Top 50 records of 2008" —KALX-FM.

ISIS "Holy Tears" Dimuzio Remix

Thomas Dimuzio was commissioned to remix art metal masters ISIS. His version of "Holy Tears" appears on the new ISIS EP "Not In Rivers, But In Drops" on Ipecac Records. The Melvins and Lustmord also contribute remixes for the Japanese release (import).

5.1 "Brilliant Noise" DImuzio remix for UK's Semiconductor

Stunning NASA images of the sun combine with Dimuzio's sounds and processing for his 5.1 remix of Semiconductor's "Brilliant Noise", on Fat Cat Records.

Live Thermal Inertias
Wobbly & Thomas Dimuzio

Wobbly and Dimuzio play live on KPFA-FM. Please help yourself to the free mp3 tracks. Live Thermal Inertias released by Dolor Del Estamago records as an infinite edition CDR. Recorded live on No Other Radio Show March 20, 2007, KPFA FM 94.1 with your hosts dAS and Ninah.

Rotate Vortex
Matmos/Wobbly/Dimuzio

Rotate Vortex a free full length MP3 album by Matmos, Wobbly and Dimuzio. Recorded over 2 days at Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in San Francisco.

The Chopping Channel
Negativland presents Over The Edge Radio

Here's a free full length MP3 album by The Chopping Channel (Don Joyce, Peter Conheim, Jon Leidecker & Thomas Dimuzio). Performed March 23, 2006 as a live Over The Edge radio broadcast and later distilled to a succinct hour of sweet and sour salable sonic confectionaries.

Sound Libraries

Big Fish Audio acquires Fred Frith/Tom Cora's Etymology and Rova Saxophone Quartet's Rovamatic sound libraries from Rarefaction (each produced by Dimuzio).

Early Dimuzio cassette releases available on CDR

Dimuzio cassette recordings from the late 80's and early 90's, including "Delineation of Perspective", "19th Monkey Schism", "Flux", "Sone Songs", Remote" and "lightswitch", have all been remastered for digital posterity. Available on CD-R exclusively through gench.com.