mark and i were very experimental in our music. we went through several periods or style changes as we could afford new instruments, and recording equipment. some of our doings were just down right strange, but it is the end result that stands up through time to still weave the audio vision that we were trying to capture . and we did. 
lets see, where shall we begin...
mark sang many of our songs through a six foot length of corrogated vacuum tubing.
we used beer bottles filled with water, packing styrofoam, mixing bowls, bamboo, fingernail scratching, chopsticks, bongos, and several drum machines all as percussion. 
keyboard instruments;
casio (very cheesy), cdx(a farfisa clone) organ, a korg lead synth (something like the mini moog of yes,lots of nobs)& the lp had a roland on it. 
i used a carvin six string, my zappacaster,(a 1972 fender telecaster that has enough electronic stuff to make steve morse drool),and a fender acoustic. the bass guitar i have is another monster, a 1965 vox fantom body with a fender jazz style neck and similar overkill on the electronics. the caster & bass were built by vig. 
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recording;
we started with reel to reels, and cassette decks, dubbing back and forth to get multi-track. in late 85, i got into the multitrack cassette decks from tascam.4 basic tracks, and bouncing gave us plenty. the thing that gave us our sound was the warped way we used effects to process almost every bit of our recordings. |
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| EFFECTS!EFFECTS!EFFECTS! electroharmonics micro synth (made for guitar, but we plugged anything in to it),& also the polyphase. dod analog delay,& flanger, digetec digital delay, ibanez stereo chorus, and a fuzz box that vig built for me.
we used these effects on everything. warbly flanged out drums, warped vocals, spacey keyboards, ect. the idea was to change everything, to create our own audio landscapes by altering all sound. 
Mark and i recorded our songs almost as soon as we had finished the compositions.we wrote on a weekly basis, so we always had a project on hand.there were no set patterns to our writing, sometimes starting out with a riff, a line, a title,or whatever influenced us. for example, the song 'spheres create fear' was written about a cartoon drawing i did in our song notebook! 
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