Keywords: Electronica
/ Instrumental / Progressive House / Acid House / Progressive
Ambient
Allegedly a pseudonym for composer / producer Eric
Scott, a wholly dubious biography
also emerged for Rhythm Factory in
1995, presenting claim to the name by a trio of audio subversives named Gez, Pete and Jupe, who solve audio-based
mysteries.
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Jupiter, Pete and Gez (they avoid using
their surnames publicly) have a claim to fame in the development
of obscure and unusual technologies, building equipment by
hand that merges crude with state of the art and in sound
research. Originally calling themselves Rhythm Defenders,
this audio hobbyist trio maintain free-agent career status,
which often finds them called in to solve audio-related mysteries
in their spare time.
Some of their designs include the following:
1. A web-based sound cannon capable of emitting infrasound.
2. Anechoic “cones” of silence
3. Audio-reactive chambers fitted specially for the monitoring
and recording of subject behavior, testing sound emissions
(artifacts)
4. Hand-held accessories to facilitate recording, and that
can be worn on the head or on the person of the recordist:
“compact and lightweight.”
5. Reverb tanks and chambers.
6. Prepared pianos and other "modified" digital
instruments.
7. Multi-platform / distributed "endless" loops
and delay devices.
8. PDA-format Sonar
Remarkably, they look like brothers, but are unrelated, and
are almost never seen in full headshot in publicity photos.
They have since insisted upon retaining some element of anonymity.
Jupiter, or Jupe to his friends, studied contemporary composition
at university in Southern California. Disenchanted in the
80s by the prospect of teaching a film-school driven student
base, motivated purely by a need to conform to Hollywood interests,
he left behind the prospects of becoming a full-time educator,
and now moon-lights in a record store specializing in hard-to-find
and archival recordings. Simultaneously responsible for cataloguing
music and sound into the university radio station database,
he has contributed heavily to the preservation of a musical
heritage, by sharing
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an appreciation for history, above and
beyond that of peers. He is well-versed in the recorded
history of electronic musique-concrete from the western
world, and presently telecommutes from Paris via a G4
titanium laptop.
Pete is a theme / jingle composer, with a technical
background in record engineering and electronic composition;
pursuits include a successful ringtone e-commerce site.
Also a MIDI enthusiast and hobbyist, he has one of the
largest private keyboard museums in the world, collecting
and refurbishing archaic analog equipment, and maintaining
a standard of usability for all sounds, “new and
old.” He is recently married, with an infant daughter.
Gez works for French experimental sound lab, Dyslexip-Coflexip,
pioneering infrasound and the research of its effects
upon human and animal life. A follower of Vladimir Gavreau,
he has pursued a secondary background in environmental
field recording, amassing an impressive library of over
3500 DAT tapes, recorded first-hand during his global
travel activities. “I just pack it all in a sack
and just go places. I crawl under things, I wait, hit
record... I close-miked a leopard in Peru who nearly
killed me as I was trying to record the sound of her
cub nursing...madness!”
Gez, a.k.a. “Beardy,” spent experimental
years mixing LSD and infrasound, occasionally waking
himself up to an 11 Hz tone in the morning, emitted
by speaker cones under his mattress. “I’m
slowly working my way down to 7 Hz,” he boasts,
“I’m becoming impervious to the effects
of sonic terrorism, one day at a time... Plus it keeps
me regular.”
Rhythm Factory are currently working and telecommuting
from a self-built studio loft and greenhouse in Paris,
overlooking the Seine, near the Boulevard Des Grands
Augustins.
