Jido-genshi
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Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
project and pseudonym of musician and music-technologist Craig Anthony Perkins
Craig Anthony Perkins
Craig Anthony Perkins is a musician, composer, record label owner and producer, photographer, filmmaker, author and designer from Los Angeles who is most known for his designer toy figure the Broken Heart Robot and his music project jido-genshi.Perkins is an autodidact who is self taught in music,...
. Created in 1995 as a way to explore other styles of music, jido-genshi tends to be more experimental in nature utilizing a mostly software based composing and recording setup to achieve the jido-genshi sound.
All of the jido-genshi albums are released on Craig's own record label zero:genshi, a division of Genshi Media Group
Genshi Media Group
Genshi Media Group / Zero:Genshi Records is an independent record label and "New Media Design Haus", founded in 1995 by musician, designer, photographer Craig Anthony Perkins.-External links:* * * * , a web research division of Genshi Media Group...
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Sound and Influences
Much like his cell:burnCell:burn
cell:burn is an industrial music project started in 1984 by Craig Anthony Perkins. The original band name was Cybertek until a few years later when members of Front 242 started using the name as a side project By the early 1990s Cybertek changed its name to cell:burn as to not be associated with...
project, Craig has been able to incorporate his sound programming skills to produce a unique yet cinematic-like sound. Using mostly software for his instruments and recording such as Max/MSP and cSound
Csound
Csound is a computer programming language for dealing with sound, also known as a sound compiler or an audio programming language, or more precisely, a C-based audio DSL. It is called Csound because it is written in C, as opposed to some of its predecessors...
allows jido-genshi to explore more non-traditional methods of composing. Often, his albums are theme based such as "For The New Intellectual" which was based on various philosophers and the "Alison Sessions" which was based on a particular speaking, synthesized voice sound which was featured on the album.
Influences include Aphex Twin
Aphex Twin
Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...
, autechre
Autechre
Autechre are an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1987, they are one of the most prominent acts signed to Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music and through which all Autechre albums...
, and Boards Of Canada
Boards of Canada
Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin...
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Side projects include cell:burn
Cell:burn
cell:burn is an industrial music project started in 1984 by Craig Anthony Perkins. The original band name was Cybertek until a few years later when members of Front 242 started using the name as a side project By the early 1990s Cybertek changed its name to cell:burn as to not be associated with...
, VENTER and StarDotStar.
Albums
- For The New Intellectual (2004)
- Alison Sessions (2005)
- The Warm Wet Low (2006)