kyma•tweaky: User JamesDrage

Name: James Drage
Location: Seattle, WA
Country: USA
Comment: explore and bend the rules
Bio: James Drage has been playing music in one form or another since age six when he began Royal Conservatory piano study in England. He probably would have attempted a career in music, had he not been introduced to computers in the mid-eighties. Thankfully those worlds have now collided with the advent of technology in music - and his degree in Computer Science certainly comes in handy. James enjoys tinkering with instruments and devices of all sorts and in every conceivable genre. You might find him soldering together electronic parts in his dining room or trying to tune a dulcimer minutes before an improvisation performance. James is always looking for new and interesting things with which to make sound.
Current and past projects include:
- "Grideo" video-conducted game piece for n^2 musicians
- "Fou Reach" octophonic installation project with Travis Hartnett
- "Sea Lion Lanes" and "Conchairto" projects with Detonator Beth
- "Barg'n Surgical" a multimedia performance with Carmel Post (Lunache)
- solo work for synthesizers, samplers and Kyma
- keyboards and vocals for The Guest Stars
- keyboards and clarinet for Ota Prota
- keyboards, effects and visuals for sub_sonic
- improvisation with the SIL2K Ensemble
- "Instant Score!" improvised soundtrack game piece
- as Jadie and D-Rage, turntablism and spinning at the Baltic Room, I-Spy/Nation, the Henry Art Gallery and Barça
- keyboards for the seminal rock bands Askew and Planet of the Eights

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