Tim Kaiser

Duluth, MN

Artist website

Tim Kaiser has been producing experimental music, performance art, videos and installations at various venues for the past 20 years. His music performances, featuring a variety of homemade devices and instruments, are as engaging visually as they are musically. He has presented work in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Canada, Cuba, Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong and Sweden.

Click Sample of his work on youtube.com

Henry Gwiazda

Moorhead, MN

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With international recognition for his innovations in the world of electronic/experimental music Henry Gwiazda has turned his attention to the creation of comprehensive visual and auditory experiences. In his multimedia works Gwiazda challenges us to consider the moments of our lives "in between", to find beauty in the simple moments that make up the majority of our lives. His virtual audio piece thefLuteintheworLdthefLuteistheworLd and multimedia piece she’s walking… will be featured from September 1 through 30 with a special showing of The Dolls House on September 14

Insectoid

Iowa City, IA

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Insectoid is an electronic two-piece from Iowa City, IA whose sci-fi inspired music is spawned through the use of analog and digital sources played 100% in real time. Expect spacey, organic rock with funk and trip-hop flavors flowing from the tips of fingers and the ends of sticks. Insectoid combines the immediacy and visceral power of a live rock band with the the infinite sonic palette and technological possibilities of electronic instruments to create a sound and style all their own, and it's all accompanied by intense visuals on multiple televisions and a gyrating alien-headed bellydancer. Really.

Fake

Fargo, ND

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Dan Reetz (aka Fake, Fakeproject) is a musician, photographer, video game artist and object maker who has worked to provoke audiences from North Dakota to Pennsylvania to Russia for over 10 years. In addition to all the art -- and machine making, Reetz is currently engaged as a graduate student of Visual Neuroscience at NDSU.

Brent Braniff

Minot,

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Brent Braniff bides his artistic time among visual art, video/film projects , experimental/electronic music, and a continuing love for well-crafted pop/rock music. This variety in focus allows him to follow his inspiration wherever and however it comes to him. He has been creating experimental music and video since 1985. His installation piece Do You Have A Dog incorporates sampled voice and video and was featured in 2006 at the 62 Doors Gallery in Minot, ND.

Console Enemy

Moorhead, MN

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Console Enemy (Jeff Zens) ignores the popular approach of using past videogame consoles to replicate the styles and tunes of their time. He instead introduces "Chopped beats and broken melodies" to the systems in a do it yourself fashion by running homebrew music sequencing software directly off particular videogame consoles (Xbox, Nintendo DS, etc.). The outcome is "8-bit style low fidelity."
Reverberations of Jeff's stuttering breaks sequenced on an obsolete but well-known hand held videogame system, output through a cheap portable amp have been reported in several local restrooms.

Manchester Bulge

Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN

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Manchester Bulge began as a harsh noise group and has since seen several variations of band members. In their current and seemingly fixed state, Touch Conners II, Enid Boring, and Edwin Perry Manchester improvise with anything from standard instruments such as bass guitar and keyboards to homemade contraptions, distorted feedback loops, tape squeals, and chains of effects pedals. Results ranging from soft haunting melody combinations to fields of sonic debris could happen.

Nathaniel Booth

Fargo, ND

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Nathaniel Booth uses the process of tying several media and materials together including assemblages, found objects from dumpsters, and video to create textural narrative. He received his MFA from Pennsylvania State University and has been in several exhibitions from Fargo, ND to New York. Three videos by Nathaniel will be available for viewing during the L.I.V.E. event on second floor in the board room.

OKFox

Fargo, ND

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OKFox wished to create a world all his own of uplifting video game inspired melodies and sounds until he realized most of the world around him wasn't living in past eras of two-deminsional pixelated space. In retaliation he created a stockpile of even happier and chippier music to compensate for his fated realization.