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Dean "deknow" Stiglitz (The Lothars,
Bionic Harmonic): Performing live electronic
music live since 1995, Dean brings a wide
breadth of musical experience to The Jambient
Project. As a saxophone, flute, and clarinet
player, Dean performed in acoustic and electric
music projects (jazz, rock, classical, klezmer,
and reggae) before discovering the music of the
electronic underground in 1995. As half of
Bionic Harmonic, and a member of Frank Heiss's
Tube project, deknow performed inside the
Brooklyn Bridge, at raves and clubs in
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and
Connecticut, as well as a full capacity New
Years Eve show at the Berklee Performance
Center. As a member of The Lothars, deknow has
played at Deep Heaven, Terrastock (most recently
in Boston, opening for Sonic Youth), The
Knitting Factory (NYC), WMBR, WFMU (NYC),
Berklee School of Music, Harvard Film Archive,
Gallery Bershad, Mobius, Coolidge Corner
Theater, Mass Art, The Adler Planetarium in
Chicago, and the Wallace Civic Center
Planetarium in Fitchburg, in addition to clubs
in Boston and New York City. Playboy Magazine
reviewed The Lothars' "Connected" CD (recorded,
mixed, and mastered by deknow) as follows:
"Despite its overuse,
soundscape is an apt description of the Lothars'
music - vistas of sound that are more atmosphere
than plot. On their new CD, Connected (Wobbly
Music), they wring sadness and beauty from such
instruments as the hammer dulcimer and the
theremin. The live improvisations sound like
elegies for Martians, or love songs for robots.
-- Anaheed Alani"
www.wobblymusic.com/lothars
Deknow plays a wind controller (the
equivalent of a keyboard for a saxophone
player...notes, breath pressure, and lip
pressure all affect the sound), electric flute,
various physical modeling, analog and digital
synthesizers, Buchla Thunder, virtual reality
glove, loops, and also mixes the band. He has
releases on Wobbly Music, RRRecords, Whole Tone,
Jungle Sky, Blue Planet, and Sublingual Records. |
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