IDX1274 currently resides in the remote and secluded hills of Cascadia, Oregon, 23 miles from the nearest population.
In these peaceful settings IDX1274 creates experimental soundscapes, sonic noise screens, aural paintings for the mind's eye and soundtracks for the movies that show on your eyelids. IDX1274 composes in freestyle and never pre plans any piece. Sounds are collected randomly and utilized randomly as are the effects and processing thereof. IDX1274 uses no keyboards or samplers in his recordings. All sounds are hand manipulated and altered from clean original sources such as: toys, household items, electronics, broken devices, tupperware, voices, field recordings, radio tunings, & computers to name a few. IDX1274 has no musical training or knowledge of musical structure, making experimenting with sounds pure and easy because it's real and honest. IDX1274 answers any and all inquires personally, see the contacts page if you need to get in touch, or the mail art page if you wish to send or receive mail arts from IDX1274.

     IDX1274 has been influenced by the following artists and personalities: The Hafler Trio/Andrew McKenzie, Merzbow, MB, Muslimgauze, Nurse With Wound, Zoviet France, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Coil, Conlon Nancarrow, Edgar Varese, Masonna, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Salvador Dali, John Zorn, Yamatsuka Eye, Buckethead, Randy Greif, Daniel Menche, Laibach, Amon Duul II, Marcel Duchamp, Aube, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Les Rallizes Denudes, My Solid Ground, Alva, Bill Laswell, Tenko, Vincent Price, RZA, Hakim Bey, Rapoon, Boredoms, Miles Davis, Fantomas, Die Form, Can, Residents, Islamic Radio, SPK, William Burroughs, Lull, Allistier Crowley, Timothy Leary, Clusone Trio, Ikue Mori, Brion Gysin, Phillip K. Dick, Wild Man Fisher, Morton Feldman, Kronos Quartet, Hovrakin, Sun Ra, Norman Spinrad, Prince Paul, Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn, James Plotkin, Ravi Shankar & Kool Keith.

     IDX1274 has produced several well received grassroot releases such as "Insomnia for Kids", "Opiated Priests", "Acid Rain (45 rpm & CD-R), "Pas de Sol" (IDX1274 vs Johnny Dark), "Art To A.R.T.", "Young Princess Rajasthan", "AM Radio Hand Tuned By Allah", as well as sold out limited editions of "Nail Bomb, Break Fast!" and the "Euro Traveller" 3" CD-R.

"Nail Bomb, Break Fast!" was picked up for reissue on Pretentious "The Label's" XZF entity and is due out in a deluxe version with reworked artwork and a bonus CD-R as well as a segment of the cymbal used to record "The 5 Pillars of Islam" which is hand stamped "IDX1274" sometime in May.
 

THX..........

Cascadia, Oregon, USA
07/07/02
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