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Kamelmauz

Sound designing and recording–since 2000–under the nome de plume Kamelmauz (was Kamelmowz,) I compose, design and assemble exotic ambient music, inspired by esteemed influences too numerous to mention.

DJ Weirton, himself an influence on my ears’ journey, called In Khorasan, ‘world hed music.’ I like the term and feel he hit the bullseye of one aspect of my creative intentions

My music is also naive. It can’t help but be so. I’m not a finicky music maker.

For 2009-2010, Kamelmauz’s second record featuring lap and pedal steel steel drones and ambient improvs, Slidemare was released on Duty Free Records, October 27. (It’s my own label. LOL )

These days I’m exploring varieties of ambient and dark ambient drones, (what I call the slow music,) and, improvs based in pentatonic vamps—very basic vamps loosely inflected by an appropriation of ‘desert african’ folk modes.

Meanwhile, as compiler Dub Collision, I’m set to begin to slice and dice Sun Ra live recordings, (from my library of 100 or so private recordings,) and assemble a Sun Ra collage-and-remix record. This project is inspired by John Oswald and his plunderphonics.

My principle sound tool since 1999, Absynth allows me to mangle patches, key in riffs, and spin out sonic weirdness quickly and intuitively, without much fuss, while leveraging the starting points provided by the multitude of expert patch makers in the Absynth community.

I use Edirol M80 and Akai LPD controllers, an Industrial Guitars Indy Rail, a Melbert (by Bob Allen,) and Rondo SX LG1 lap steels, two circa 1970 Fender 400 pedal steel guitars, various hand drums, found percussion, epoxy didgeridoo, Ethiopian krar, and a Zoom portable digital recorder, to capture and introduce sound onto my canvas. Audio goes into an aged Apple G4/MDD PowerPC through a RME Digipad 9632. I use Guitar Rig 3, the playing card deck sized digital I/O, and, a MacBook. On the laptop, Guitar Rig output is fed into DSP-Quattro 3, and various effects inserts, such as Native Instruments Absynth 4 and Reaktor, a software Luxtronic 1310, and, Michael Norris’s wonderful, free AU effects. Multi-tracking ends up in Logic Express.