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Malcolm Humes

A recording Engineer, former DJ and multi-instrumentalist influenced heavily by Brian Eno and Bill Laswell, Humes has recorded experimental music since 1980, releasing almost none of it. Works range from industrial to experimental rock, jazz and electronica, tending towards textural and atmospheric landscapes, or gnarly distorted guitars. New material and back catalog material are pending release in 2011. A few solo CDRs were distributed in 1997, and some tracks can be found under the alias Malium on last.fm. Disk Jockey at WDFM and parties, State College, PA 1980-83. Bass player in Virgin Ears 1982-83, and again in 2008 for a reunion recording session that is unreleased aside from MySpace. Collaborated with Rob Angus in the Penn State Electronic Music lab and premiered a spliced tape piece based on tape echoes and feedback at a concert produced and headlined by Jeff Greinke and Rob Angus. Started a demo studio, Auricle, in 1983 with a 4 Track cassette recorder and did radio commercials and produced demos of a few local State College PA hardcore punk bands such as 2000 Maniacs (2), The Big Thing, and Wasted Talent (2) and The Electric Ferrets. The 2000 Maniacs tracks eventually saw release on vinyl and the bass player Greta Brinkman went on to play with Debbie Harry, Unseen Force, Moby and many others. Moved to San Fransciso and started a series of Noise Nacht industrial music concerts in November 1985, produced and hosted with Kim Cascone, and performed the opening night as part of PGR with Cascone and Iao Core's David Gardner, with Big City Orchestra opening the show. The series continued on for a few months managed by Kim Cascone. Shared a concert at Lab in San Francisco with Jeff Greinke, Eric Muhs and Brian Fergus in January 1989 and performed and collaborated around San Francisco until 1997, loosely affiliated and recording with many Mill College music students 1985-97. Launched the EnoWeb site in 1993 at a time when there were few music oriented paged on the web, and less than a few hundred web servers. Appears on a Mandible Chatter CD in 1994 source recordings improvised with the band which were later edited, looped and processed into songs. Moved to North Carolina in 1997 and remains active in home studio recordings and occasional collaborations, prepping back catalog works for future release starting in 2011.

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