A.k.a. Marcelo Oyarzún Cavallari Nuisance Beacon Seam Pith
From 1991 to 1997, Marcelo Oyarzún Cavallari started doing solo work as Thread, in which his main preoccupation was crafting, cutting up, manipulating, and restitching samples, both of sounds he was creating myself and found sounds, and that murky area in between the two. (Later, "Thread" had to be changed to "Threadbare" for legal reasons.) Most of the tracks were recorded on consumer-grade stereo cassette tape using a makeshift technique: a strip of plastic covering the erase head of the cassette deck allowing for repeated overdubs. The exceptions, recorded on four-track recorder, are "Breeze through the Aisles", "Whimper Choir [2]", "Crisis Mechanics [2]" and "Through/Out". After 1997, Marcelo adopted different names to work under, including seam pith, Nuisance Beacon and shimsewn.