A solo project of Jeff Bagato
(aka DJ Panic), Tone Ghosting features a unique homemade instrument he
invented himself: playing vinyl LPs with small hacksaw & electronic
FX, magnifying, modifying, & energizing the small scrapes & squeaks
to create a complex musical vocabulary. The patented "Tone Ghosting process"
includes looping these sounds, reformulating them in frenetic live dubs,
& adding freeform vocal madness and intuitive drum machine percussion.
Tone Ghosting creates a unique sonic universe somewhere between the attack
of power electronics & the complex mind-body games of electronica &
non-idiomatic free improvisation.
Tone Ghosting has released
several CDRs, including Castle Changes on Sockets
CDR and others on his own Panic Research
Audio label. In 2007, a mini-CDR documenting the Matt Weston/Tone Ghosting
duo accompanied their mini tour of VA/NC/TN. The Wig Fleet mini-CDR
received reviews in The Wire and Signal to Noise. Writing
in The Wire (March 2007), Byron Coley noted "...jumbles of moist-sounding
noise, overlaid with random beat action and effects. It's good, weird homemadeness."
And Signal to Noise columnist David Cotner wrote "...tinny woodland
creatures playing instruments such as a hacksaw, vinyl, FX, and drum machine....It
is heteroglossia made disc, spread out across one-half an hour and that's
more than one can usually expect from three twinkling inches" (STN Spring
2007). Writing about Castle Changes in his Noiseweek
blog, Wire contributer Marc Masters said TG "uses volume and pace
on this one to create little moments of structure and momentum--the timing
of some of his pull-backs and push-forwards are just perfect, like an endless
string of set-ups and punch lines. Maybe that's the best way to think of
Castle
Changes' internal clock, like the absurdist jokes in Rosencrantz
and Guilderstern are Dead, divining surreal humor from endless loops
and infinite possibilities."
Bagato's other musical projects
include Mercury Fools the Alchemist, a trio of Rich Sheehe on ambient guitar,
Dan Barbiero on avant classical bass, & Bagato on homemade springamajig;
the electronic trio For Official Use Only with Dave Vosh and Logan Mitchell,
Sr; Bionic Eyes, an electronic noise duo with Raquel Leone. Other off &
on projects include the electro-acoustic free improv + poetry group Croniamantal;
a post-surrealist turntablism project called Hearasay in Paradox Lust;
and the improvising avant punk band Alzo
Boszormenyi & the Acid Achievers. He has also performed in the
electro-acoustic free improv trio Spaceships Panic
Orbit; and as a duo with Violet
called Violet Panic.
In addition, Bagato promotes
the Electric Possible monthly series for
experimental music in Washington, DC. Extra-musical projects include a
book of fiction, Savage
Night and Other Stories (2010), a book of poetry, Spells
of Coming Day (2010), and the book Mondo
DC: An Insider's Guide to Washington, DC's Most Unusual Tourist Attractions(2005),
all published on Panic Research Press. From 1989-2000, Bagato edited
and published 13 issues of Mole Magazine, a
journal of "Outsider Art, Crackpot Thought, Other Music, and the Counterculture."
Discography
Mercury Fools The Alchemist--Wind
Supports Wood (Panic Research Audio, 2009)
District of Noise, vol 1,
Compilation of Experimental Music from Washington, DC (Sonic Circuits/Zeromoon,
2008)
Matt Weston + Tone Ghosting--Live
at Sonic Circuits EP mini-CDR (Panic Research Audio, 2007)
Tone Ghosting--Action in
the Ruins CDR (Panic Research Audio, 2007)
Tone Ghosting--Wig Fleet
mini-CDR (Panic Research Audio, 2007)
Tone Ghosting--Castle Changes
EP CDR (SocketsCDR, 2006)
Sockets Audio Zine #2 (one
track as Hearasay in Paradox Lust) (SocketsCDR, 2006)
Tarantula Hill Benefit Compilation
(one track as Tone Ghosting) (SocketsCDR, 2006)
Spaceships Panic Orbit 36--Live
Hell vol.1 CDR (This_000, 2006)
Spaceships Panic Orbit--windows/trees
CDR (This_000, 2006)
Tone Ghosting--Jettex Humaine
EP CDR (Panic Research Audio, 2005)
DJ Panic--Disques Combats
CDR (Panic Research Audio, 2002)
Spaceships Panic Orbit--That
Carb in the Circuit Night CDR (Nut Music, 2000)
DJ Panic--Dead Record 2x12"
LP (Panic Research Audio, 2000)
Alzo Bosormenyi and the Acid
Achievers--The Doug Sessions CDR (Nut Music, 2004)
Alzo Bosormenyi and the
Acid Achievers--Live at O'Carrolls CDR (Nut Music, )
Alzo Bosormenyi and the
Acid Achievers--Good Friday 1996 CDR (Nut Music, )
Alzo Bosormenyi and the
Acid Achievers--Live at the Galaxy Hut CDR (Nut Music, 2003)
Alzo Bosormenyi and the
Acid Achievers--Present the Illusion (vinyl EP-Black Bean & Placenta;
CDR--Nut Music)
Alzo Bosormenyi and the
Acid Achievers--Ouagadougou (Nut Music)
Alzo Bosormenyi and the
Acid Achievers--L14 (Nut Music)
Alzo's Rex Ego Army--I'm
Your Hardcore Daddy CDR (Nut Music, 1991)
Alzo Bosormenyi and the
Acid Achievers--Live in the Suburbs: I'm Going to Kick Your Ass CDR (Nut
Music)
Alzo Bosormenyi and the
Acid Achievers--No Good Men 7" (Nut Music)
Panic Sound System--Valley
of the Paperdolls Soundtrack CDR (Nut Music)
Various Artists--The Adventures
of Pablo the Circus Boy (includes Sal Amoniac, Alzo) CDR (Nut Music)
Various Artists--Beasts
of the Night Gather Together: A Tribute to Suckdog (with Finn McCool and
McCool's Navy) (enhanced CD; Nut Music)
Sal Amoniac--star heart
spiral cassette/CDR (Nut Music)
Rex Morgan MD Trio--The
Sound of One Hand Clapping cassette/CDR (Nut Music)
Rex Morgan MD Trio--Silence
is Golden cassette/CDR (Nut Music)
Rex Morgan MD Trio--Sonic
Excrement cassette/CDR (Nut Music)
Infant Mort--Born Dirty
to Last Forever cassette/CDR (Nut Music) |
