Live at Generator, by Thomas Dimuzio

Live at Generator

by Thomas Dimuzio

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Thomas Dimuzio performed his debut solo concert at New York City's Generator Experimental Music Gallery on March 17, 1990. This recording documents the original concert in its raw and unedited entirety.

Generator, the sound gallery, and Generations Unlimited, the record label, welcomed new opportunities for spontaneous artistic expression. Many exceptional artists were attracted to this creative energy. No one played at the Generator for the money. They played for the joy of performing in front of an appreciative audience, and this was never more apparent than the night of March 17, 1990, when Thomas Dimuzio came to New York City to give his first ever solo concert at the Generator. Thomas had been experimenting with home recording since the early 80's. He sent a tape to my Generations Unlimited partner David Prescott whose show "No Commercial Potential" on WZBC radio in Boston featured many unknown or obscure composers and artists. From this contact Thomas' first cassette release "Delineation of Perspective" (TD-1 on the GU cassette series) was released. Soon after, "Headlock", Thomas' seminal LP was also published by Generations Unlimited. Excited by these recordings, I invited Thomas to come to New York City for his debut solo concert. It was impossible to tell from his recordings how he was making all that sound so I was very intrigued to hear him play live. He arrived with enough equipment to half fill the space and his enthusiasm and energy filled up the remaining space. Thomas created intense walls of shifting sonic architecture with strong yet subtle dynamics. This live recording demonstrates the fluid sonic capabilities and total enthusiasm for which Thomas Dimuzio has since earned a reputation as a live performer. —Gen Ken

“Amazingly, for something with such a masterly and convincing delivery, this is Dimuzio's first ever solo concert” — The Sound Projector

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Fab solo American noisenik whomps it up live with his vats of electric junk. You need more records by Dimuzio so why not acquire this one - 12 years old and a rare vintage too. Amazingly, for something with such a masterly and convincing delivery, this is Dimuzio's first ever solo concert. Gen Ken Montgomery recorded it at his Generator sound gallery concern in New York in March 1990, but the history of it goes back to the 1980s, Dimuzio's earlier experiments, and Gen Ken's interest in hearing them (indeed in hearing as much weird music as he possibly could, mostly on cassettes, which is how the scene throve back then). The Generations Unlimited label put out the first Dimuzio LP Headlock in 1989 - since reissued on CD by ReR, but still tough to find. 'It was impossible to tell from his recordings how he was making all that sound,' muses Gen Ken. That still applies when you listen to this sprawling chaos on record, and even reading through the list of equipment - lots of synths, a digital delay unit and a delay system, plus sampling keyboards and a mixing board - leave you little the wiser. Naturally, what's important is the man in the driving seat who has the expertise to make all this gear leap into action. With his bangs, buzzes, echoes, crackling, and metallic shivering timbers, Dimuzio conveys unearthly grandeur, a sense of rapid travel and movement, a multitude of foreign voices blending into a babel, foreboding buildings, flashing lights, mountains of concrete and clay formed into terrifying ziggurats - all the experiences of modern city life in fact, and what greater city to depict in this regard than NYC? Dimuzio also conveys excitement, meeting bizarre strangers, out-of-control street parties, ingesting hallucinogenic drugs and excessive amounts of alcohol, and witnessing unexpected fatalities in traffic. A good companion piece to Gen Ken's (calmer) recording captured from his apartment window (see the Environmental Section); take the two together to form a coherent view of modern urban life. —Ed Pinsent

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released March 17, 1990

Thomas Dimuzio
Live at Generator Experimental Music Gallery
New York City March 17, 1990

Instrumentation: [2] Roland S-50 Digital Sampling Keyboard, Lexicon PCM70, LXP1, LXP5, PCM 42, MRC, Electro-Harmonix 16 Second Digital Delay, MXR Delay System II, Digital Music Corporation MX8, Ashley CL52, Neptune 8 channel mixer.

Recorded by Thomas Dimuzio to PCM 14-bit VHS format.
Remastered by Thomas Dimuzio May 2001 at Gench Studios, San Francisco.

Photography by Gen Ken and layout by Anne Bonham.

Special thanks: Gen Ken Montgomery, Scott Konzelman, David Prescott, Anne Bonham, Meet The Composers and The Jerome Foundation.

Originally released on CD-R by Generator Archives in 2001.

©1990 Thomas Dimuzio
℗ Gench Music [BMI]

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Thomas Dimuzio San Francisco, California

Thomas Dimuzio's recordings have been released internationally by ReR Megacorp, Asphodel, RRRecords, No Fun, Sonoris, Drone, Record Label Records, Odd Size, and other independent labels. Among his frequent collaborators are Chris Cutler, Dan Burke, Joseph Hammer, Nick Didkovsky, Due Process, Voice of Eye, Fred Frith, David Lee Myers, 5uu's, Matmos, Wobbly, and Negativland. ... more

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