Keith Rowe (b. 1940) is an English free improvisation guitarist. He helped to found the groundbreaking ensemble AMM in the mid-1960s and is also a founding member of the more recent M.I.M.E.O. ensemble. Rowe has been called a "godfather of electroacoustic improvisation" and a "master of understatement." He has worked for half a lifetime to unsettle the boundaries between music and noise.

Rowe began his career playing jazz in the early 1960's -- notably with Mike Westbrook. His earl... More >>

Rick Reed (b. 1957) is an entirely self-taught composer/visual artist who has been working in the Austin music underground for the past 25 years. Using old battered electronic devices like sine wave generators, short wave radios and a vintage EMS analogue synthesizer, Reed has performed solo and with various electronic/noise groups including Frequency Curtain, Abrasion Ensemble, FTC and many others. The Spring 2006 issue of Signal To Noise Magazine said of his most recent CD release, Dark Skies ... More >>