Joseph Hammer - tape
Thomas Dimuzio - sampler
Dimmer (Dimuzio/Hammer duo)
Joseph Hammer, a sound artist from Los Angeles, has actively created experimental works since 1980. His practice draws on the complexities of the process of listening and playing, reflecting on the role of the audience versus the performer, and uses music as it influences our notion of time, memory and intimacy as the basis for improvisation and abstraction. As a member of the trio Solid Eye, Hammer has performed widely (including a recent one month tour of Japan) and is an influential contributor to the Los Angeles underground scene. For his tape work, Joseph uses a reel-to-reel monaural deck from the early 1950's. By manipulating the tape as it passes the record and playback heads, he creates music with layered and warped sounds from different sources.
Thomas Dimuzio is one of those unsung artistic figures whose influence and abilities have substantially outstripped his visibility. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, experimental electronic musician and recording studio owner, Dimuzio has been busy doing his thing(s) since the late 1980s with critically acclaimed releases issued by the legendary house of audio misanthropy, RRRecords and former Henry Cow drummer (and current Dimuzio collaborator) Chris Cutler's well-regarded ReR Megacorp label. Equally fluent in a nearly every contemporary post-techno style, Dimuzio's work clearly demonstrates an insider's knowledge of older experimental musical forms such as musique concréte and electroacoustic, as well as contemporary ambient-industrial and noise.
"Dimuzio bears comparison with DJ Spooky in his grasp of sonic futurism,but where Spooky's work thrives on dub - the delays and recalls of paranoid consciousness - this is clean edged and fleeting, a music of high speed planes, trains and generators. If King Crimson had studied under Edgar Varese." - Matt Ffytche, The Wire
Cost: $6-10