The Tronic is scheduled to perform at the 2010 Bent Festival, Friday April 23rd at 9:30pm.
Our new track, "BENT NYC" is the first track on 2010's BENT FESTIVAL compilation CD.
Get tickets to the BENT FESTIVAL!
The Bent Festival is an annual art and
music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and
circuit bending. Each year we invite artists from across the country
and around the globe to perform music with their home-made or circuit
bent instruments, teach workshops to adults and children alike, create
beautiful art installations and to generally come together, face to
face, and showcase the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit
bending culture.
The Tronic
The Tronic was formed in 2008 by Gregg Jarvis (aka Gj-Rvus) and
Thomas
Bell (aka ADDj) as an improvisational live jazz-tronic band w/ DJ
sensibilities and instrumental proficiency. Their unique approach to
improvisation blurs the lines between the live musician, composer and
dj. The unit begins improvising then loops real, virtual,
and homemade instruments along with circuit bent
toys in real time. They mix and manipulate
the loops and improvise on top of the spontaneous compositions just created .
Anything from serene beauty, viscious groove to stumbling chaoss may
occur at anytime. The Tronic is truly a foward-thinking modern jazz
ensemble.
Gregg Jarvis is a drummer, percussionist and sonic composer from the
NYC/Hudson Valley area. Thomas Bell is a bassist, composer, visual artist and
gallery owner in Brooklyn. With over 50 combined years of immersion in nearly every genre of
music, there are no boundaries sonically safe from The Tronic.
