musicians:
Bradley Cook (bass, electronics, guitars)
Joe Westerlund (drums)
Ben Derickson (drums)
Influences
Steve Reich, David Tudor, Evan Parker, Rhys Chatham, Arnold Dreyblatt, Sigur Ros, Peter Brotzmann, Remarc, Future Sound of Hardcore, Luke Vibert, Dan Doormouse, Photek, Omni Trio, R.T.B.M., Curtis Chip, and Chick Corea. Philip Glass, The Clash, The Pixies, Burt Bacharach, Miles Davis, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, King Tubby, Ornette Coleman, Nicolas Collins (old), Nicholas Collins (young), Chicago Underground Duo/Trio/Quartet, Cecil Taylor, Leo Cuypers, Tom Waits, The Winstons, Ken Vandermark, John Corbett, etc.
Thomas Wincek is an instrumentalist by choice, and a computer operator out of necessity. His primary interest lies in the intersection of organic and electronic means of making sound. He has studied sound, sound composition and improvisation with Nicolas Collins, John Corbett and Rob Drinkwater. As the main force behind the experimental electronic dance act Emotional Joystick, he has worked at integrating the tenants of improvisation and sonic exploration into the rubric of contemporary dance music. As a result, he has released music on a variety of independent labels, toured many portions of the United States and Europe, and has had the opportunity to play alongside such acts as Tortoise, Venetian Snares, No Means No, Dillinger Escape Plan, Otto von Shirach, Doormouse, and Eight Frozen Modules.
Recently he has become an active member in the band Collections of Colonies of Bees, and is working with them on their new album to be released on Table of the Elements, and providing rhodes piano on stage.
The Emotional Joystick project is also being restructured, with a focus on a minimalist, band oriented aesthetic, and live shows continuing in that vein, as well as incorporating contributions from some of the many musicians he has made contact with over the years.
Thank you...we try to dig on everyones interest's or the sounds they enjoy,..We like what you had going on your page...and figured we would take the chance, you would like what we enjoy the most...and thats make music...but for the most part... now that we got that horrible and cheesy statement out of the way....this looks like another typical, but somewhat long band comment... But heck at least its a comment... Right?
it is a good thing that you signed out of gchat immediately after i said hi to you because i did not in fact want to communicate with you at all. so, im glad that you are no longer online. you are a jerk.
i ran "eight" through that sample scrambler system im working on in supercollider. i think it sounds pretty fantastic. its on my myspace page right this very second.
Look, Tom, I am sorry my penis broke your glasses, but there's no excuse for messing with my senior portrait in high school like that. Even if they were Prada glasses, and even if I get the funkee stuff in yr eye.
Look, Tom, I am sorry my penis broke your glasses, but there's no excuse for messing with my senior portrait in high school like that. Even if they were Prada glasses, and even if I get the funkee stuff in yr eye.
