Jeff SconceNovember 30, 2005
*Name: Jeff Sconce
*Another genre descriptor: I prefer "pop concrète"
*Why you use this descriptor: Drawing from musique concrète, I like the connotations of creating music by manipulating fragments from a pop music soundscape into which none of us asked to be born.
*Location: I've lived in Chicago the past 4 years...5 years in L.A. before that....5
years in Madison/Oshkosh before that...9 years in Austin before that.....
*Original Location: See above.
*What is your creative/artistic background: Nothing formal.
*History: Since around 1985.
*Born: 1962: Oklahoma City
*Motivations: I trace it back to discovering many years ago as a kid that pulling out the balance knob on my parents' old Motorola hi-fi somehow dramatically altered the mix, usually by blanking out the vocal track or bringing a background instrument to the front. From that point on, I've always had an interest in the mechanics of recording and the structures/textures of pop music.
*Philosophy: I don't know if there is a philosophy, really. I guess I would say I've always been interested in the usual suspects for my age/taste culture: dada, situationalists, W.S. Burroughs, Warhol, punk/post-punk, no wave, etc. Also, I've always liked the way collage art can bring out new and unexpected subtexts when unlikely fragments are collided.
*How would you like to be remembered: Being remembered at all would be quite nice, thank you...
*Web address: No web address as of yet. Just email
