アトランタ在住のバイオリン、ヴィオラ奏者/作曲家。 映画"Interview with the Vampire"や"Queen of the Damned"の原作者としてもしられる米国のゴシック小説作家アン・ライス主催のヴァンパイアボール "The Queen of the Damned Ball"や数多くのフェスティバルに出演。 ジャンルはクラシック、ジャズ、ゴシック、ダークキャバレットと幅広く、The Ghosts Project,The Changelings,DP3のメンバーとして活動の他映画音楽制作も手がける。 ゴシックバンドFaith And The MuseやMoe Tucker (Velvet Underground), Zoe Keating, Jill Tracy, Brass Knuckle Surfer他数多くのアーティストと共演、またはゲストプレイヤーとして出演及びレコーディングにも参加している。
Paul Mercer Profile: Paul Mercer is an Atlanta-based violinist and composer who has been playing for 25 years. As a member of the critically acclaimed neoclassical quintet, The Changelings , he has performed extensively around the country. He grew up playing for coins on the streets and later studied Hindustani music with Afghani Rebab maestro Rafi Akbar Zada. Originally known for his groundbreaking work with baroque pop quintet The Changelings, he has gone on to perform or record with DP3, The Ghosts Project, Moe Tucker (of the Velvet Underground), Zoe Keating, Faith And The Muse, Jill Tracy, Brass Knuckle Surfer and many others. In recent years he has scored a dozen films, including the internationally released Psychopathia Sexualis. His recent minimalist compositional work focuses on texture in sound, a sort of sonic surrealism inspired by the strikingly original voices of particular violins and violas.He has also finished recording an album of avant-garde compositions for small string ensembles called Ghosts. Performs at Anne Rice's annual party "The Queen of the Damned Ball".
Control Freak Profile: Control Freak is Tokyo-based music producer Matt Redding from England. His formative years were spent tearing up the fretboard as a metal guitarist, but when he discovered sampling he exchanged his axe for an Amiga. Inspired by his peers and electronic artists of the time and the expressive potential of the evolving new music tech, he began to experiment and search for the “new sound”. To his surprise, he found it on his bedroom floor, in between a Squarepusher CD and a worn out copy of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. He has been heavily influenced by the music philosophy of John Cage, the virtuosity of Paganini, the severity of Stravinsky and the austerity of Bach. More direct musical influences come in the form of artists such as Amon Tobin, Sneaker Pimps, Squarepusher and more recently Vex’d and Shackleton. However, he is very fond of mixing seemingly disparate genres to discover new and unusual forms of musical expression, including flamenco, jazz, tap dance, african drumming, Indian and middle eastern music etc. His latest project “Raqs Gothique” is a music/dance collaboration with belly dancers Maki and Natsu, for which he has been treating Indian and middle eastern drumming and vocal music with an electronic glitch style production, coining the phrase ethniglitch. Control Freak’s music is free to download, released under the Creative Common’s license by the net-label Heavy 7 Productions. Matt also is a co-founder of Laptop Battle Tokyo, a global music contest event for laptop musicians, which he brought to Japan with a hope to expose and promote undiscovered new music talent and to bring together Japanese and overseas artists. He continues to produce music and perform live in Tokyo.
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