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The American musician and artist David Michael DiGregorio currently studies at DasArts, the Amsterdam school for advanced research in theatre and dance studies.
DiGregorio is also a singer / songwriter, who’s using electronics. He studied film/video making and electro-acoustic composition at Harvard College. According to DiGregorio, he’s interested in forming a type of meta-sexual relationship between the surrounding shifting landscape of audience and sound-filled air. His desire for a kind of thickness in that air perhaps explains his attraction to powerful machinery such as pianos and accordions and whirling windy devices like Leslie cabinets. In terms of text, DiGregorio has been working with interrupted ideas and sentiments, moments when text and music suddenly separate or cause the degeneration of the other. Furthermore, DiGregorio believes that new alphabets, made-up vocabularies, and dense layers of voices are tools for bridging the gap from person to person across space and time.
The German electronics act Schlammpeitziger, an alias for Jo Zimmermann, undoubtedly has its own signature sound. Friendly but oddly twisted Casio-grooves and irresistible melodies are combined in an ever changing unpredictable manner. Underneath the poppy surface of his songs (he remixed depeche mode amongst others) subtle layers of never heard sound are shining through, showing a more serious approach. The music of Schlammpeitziger seems to have a certain ambiguity. Also, humor and melancholy are never far away. Schlammpeitziger’s most reent CD Everything Without All Inclusive is a real pop album with depth and the potential of leaving its listeners addicted. It’s “homerecording for the masses.