Locally Produced Digital Music Showcase

I'm an eighteen year old musician who has lived in Chapel Hill, NC for the past 14 years.

Bramblings is the experimental music project of Mikey Lee Matyi, composer, artist and weirdo extraordinaire.

With Bramblings, I hope to compose experimental music that encompasses weird genres and musical ideas. All of my music is composed in Ableton and is primarily sample-based. Many of the sounds in Bramblings are extrapolated from looped portions of other larger samples. These melodies are often set to heavy breakbeats. Aside from Ableton, I also use an M-Audio MIDI keyboard and a Blue microphone to record random noises and instruments.

Andrew Weathers (b. 1988) is a composer and performer of experimental music. Originally from Chapel Hill, he currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina where he studies Music Composition at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His music utilizes acoustic and electronic elements and sits somewhere in between composition and improvisation. Weathers tours relentlessly, performing his music across the United States and in Europe.

Mike is a Masters of Information Science student at UNC, and is currently trying to start a cooperative social network site to explore and create new forms of digital storymaking. He could use some help.

Ghost Hand is the solo sound project of Peter Pendergrass, Chapel Hill-based artist, performer and current student at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Alex Kotch (b. 1983 in North Carolina, USA) is a fresh new voice in contemporary music, fusing instrumental composition with an electronic dance style. In bringing together "propulsive, post-Minimalist rhythms" (New York Times) with an extensive background in jazz, pop, experimental, electronic, and West African music, he has received honors and fellowships from ASCAP, The Transatlantic Arts Consortium, Duke University, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Sequenza21, and Juventas, and commissions from Ensemble Zellig, Trio Saxiana, Nicolas Prost, Silvia Lenzi, Michael Straus, and Rare Degree. Alex's works, heard throughout the United States and France, have also seen performances by eighth blackbird, Odd Appetite, the Lost Dog Ensemble, and Susan Fancher. As a multimedia artist, he has received coverage from ABC News and The Associated Press, and as a performer on clarinet, saxophone, and laptop, he plays concerts and DJ sets along the US East Coast. With a B.A. in Music from Brown University and a Master’s in Composition from Duke University, Alex is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Duke. Recent premieres include a work for 100 saxophones in Paris and a multimedia opera in Los Angeles. Recent solo electronics performances include Providence's Pixilerations Festival, the Spark Festival in Minneapolis, the Troika Music Festival in Durham, NC, Signalfest in Chapel Hill, NC, and Jamnesia in Hillsborough, NC.

Khristian Weeks is a sound artist/designer and improviser living in Durham, NC. His work spans a wide range of genres, including chamber music, sound installation, field and environmental recording, incidental music, and live electronic improvisation. 
While living in New York he performed and presented his audio and visual works at numerous venues in and around the city, including The Knitting Factory, Tonic, Remote Lounge, Void, ABC no Rio, Monkey Town, and Walt Whitman Birthplace. Since relocating to Durham in June, 2008, Khristian has performed at the Pinhook and Durham Arts Council, Night Light in Chapel Hill and Badgerhaus in Raleigh.

Khristian Weeks is a sound artist/designer and improviser living in Durham, NC. His work spans a wide range of genres, including chamber music, sound installation, field and environmental recording, incidental music, and live electronic improvisation. 
While living in New York he performed and presented his audio and visual works at numerous venues in and around the city, including The Knitting Factory, Tonic, Remote Lounge, Void, ABC no Rio, Monkey Town, and Walt Whitman Birthplace. Since relocating to Durham in June, 2008, Khristian has performed at the Pinhook and Durham Arts Council, Night Light in Chapel Hill and Badgerhaus in Raleigh.

US/Canada duo Yanni and Jennifer Ehm incorporate thousands of microscopic sounds into expansive, teeming environments. Gradually modulating mid-range beats shape a modest bed for mutated wood-block pops, spectral synthesizer wisps and lingering high-end pings.

Described by the Chapel Hill Independent as "An excellent late-night escape", each grew up in Canada, Eastern Europe and the U.S. West Coast -- strongly influenced by a lineage of brooding, experimental electronica, IDM, ethno and outre techno that evolved in the wake of Joy Division and Bauhaus.

Since mid-2008, Hemiptera has been featured at almost two dozen festivals and in club nights around North America, including Ithaca, N.Y.’s Light in Winter festival, Raleigh N.C.’s Mosaic Fall Music Festival and Chapel Hill’s SignalFest. Current Live PA recordings are available on Soundcloud. An ambient Live PA entitled “Orange Saline” is available on the Internet Archive.

Hemiptera contributes heavily to Canada’s Pertin_nce netlabel, including several netreleases and commercial releases, including December 2009’s Pol Pet EP and May 2009’s The Metanoia EP. Jenn + Yanni have curated two charity compilations for the label -- both for victims of Hodgkin's Lymphoma and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.