SOUND
BLAKE SANDBERG HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN SOUND AND MAKING
MUSIC IN SOME FORM SINCE CHILDHOOD.
BLAKE WAS IN THE BAND IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND STUDIED JAZZ
MUSIC IN HIGH SCHOOL.
LATER HE BROKE FROM THE STRUCTURED AND WRITTEN
MUSICAL FORM HE WAS TAUGHT WHICH HE FELT KILLED THE
SPIRIT OF THE MUSIC AND HE STOPPED READING MUSIC. HE
THEN ATTEMPTED TO "UN-LEARN" ALL HE HAD BEEN TAUGHT.
BLAKE IS INTERESTED IN JAZZ, ROCK AND ROLL - ESPECIALLY
PUNK AND UNDERGROUND ROCK AND ROLL, AND AVANT-GUARD
MUSIC COMPOSERS.
BLAKE BECAME INVOLVED WITH 'NOISE' MUSIC IN THE MID -
NINETIES. EXPERIMENTING WITH SOUND AND VARIOUS
INSTRUMENTS. OFTEN USING CASSETTE TAPES AND LATER
DIGITAL RECORDING.
HE HAS MADE "SOUND COLLAGES" AND LOOPS FOR YEARS.
SOMETIMES PERFORMING THESE LOOP COMPOSITIONS IN PUBLIC
IN NEW YORK UNDER THE
NAME 'SLP LOOP BEATS.'
BLAKE CREATES "LOOP BEATS" WITH MULTIPLE TURNTABLES -
AS MANY AS SIX AT A TIME, TO CREATE LIVE BUILDING BEATS AND
SOUND-SCAPES.
BLAKE FOUNDED THE MISC. MUSIC RECORD LABEL AND
RELEASES UNDERGROUND AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC.
HE WAS GIVEN A FENDER "BULLET" GUITAR IN 1999 BY A FRIEND
AND BEGAN PLAYING GUITAR EXTENSIVELY.
HE PLAYED GUITAR IN MANY EXPERIMENTAL NOISE PROJECTS IN
NEW YORK. LATER FORMING THE BAND 'ALIENS.'
'S.L.P. UN-INVITATIONAL' CASSETTE TAPE 1997
BLAKE SANDBERG / PAUL DORMAN / DAVE LAMPLUGH
FURTHER COLLABORATIONS WITH PAUL DORMAN:
CHANNEL CATFISH AUDIO' - 'CCA' "MENTAL GRASSHOPPER"
HOOKAH THIEF THREE PART TRILOGY
ALL THESE RECORDINGS MADE IN LIMITED EDITION CDS
NOISE FROM THE BASEMENT
ABSTRACT EXPERIMENTS WITH DRUMMER CHRIS HUI:
RECORDS GUITAR TRACKS ON 6 SONGS FOR HUGH HOPPER (SOFT MACHINE)
ENGINEERED BY VIRGINIA TATE
THE ALBUM REMAINS UNRELEASED CURRENTLY
ALIENS DANIEL JOHNSTON COVER SONGS
2002 SONGS ARE: LOVE WHEEL, PSYCHO
NIGHTMARE, ALIEN AUTOMATIC MIND
CONTROL
BLAKE - GUITAR TAMAKI UI - DRUMS
ALIENS "DON'T PANIC LIVE AT CBGB" SINGLE
ALIENS "COMMITTED TO WIND / STOW AWAY" SINGLE
ALIENS "HEAD FIRST" ALBUM
BLAKE - GUITAR TAMAKI UI - DRUMS AND RAANEN BOZZIO - DRUMS
ED WARGA - DRUMS
INCLUDES GUEST DRUMMER HUNT SALES (IGGY POP AND DAVID BOWIE)
SLP LOOP BEATS :
LOOP BEAT RECORD, FRANKENBEATS, NOISE POLEMICS, MAN VS MACHINE,
"UN CLE DES CHANTS"(THE MEANING OF SONG), LOST BEATS
BLAKE AND A PRE-RECORDED TAPE, RANDOM SOUND INTERACTIONS
PERFORMING LIVE IN NYC. ALL CDS MADE IN VERY LIMITED EDITIONS BY HAND
A BRIEF HISTORY OF RECORDINGS:
LINKS:
MISC. MUSIC LABEL:
ALIENS: