DUO with thomas dimuzio
Phillip Greenlief and Thomas Dimuzio explore the boundary between acoustic and electronic sound. Greenlief's expressive woodwinds meet Dimuzio's live sampling, processing, and Buchla modular synthesis, creating improvisations that shift seamlessly between turbulent energy and meditative spaciousness.
NEW ALBUM
San Francisco Bay Area improvisers Phillip Greenlief and Thomas Dimuzio present Ready Box, a striking set of electro-acoustic improvisations recorded at the legendary Fantasy Studios just one week after the passing of synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla. The album is a co-release from Gench Music and Evander Music.
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In these deeply responsive performances, Dimuzio samples and transforms the shifting frequencies of Greenlief’s woodwinds, weaving them into vivid electronic textures while simultaneously sculpting striking sound images from the Buchla modular synthesizer. The result is a fluid, shape-shifting dialogue where acoustic breath and electronic circuitry blur into a single sonic organism.
Throughout Ready Box, the duo engages in a kind of sonic hide-and-seek: tones appear, dissolve, and reemerge in unexpected forms, making the origins of each sound intriguingly elusive. The album showcases two of the Bay Area’s most inventive improvisers moving seamlessly between chaotic surges of sound and spacious, meditative passages of otherworldly beauty.
Recording Session at studio A
Fantasy Studios - Berkeley, California
DIMUZIO BIO:
Thomas Dimuzio is a musician, composer, improviser, sound designer, mastering engineer, label proprietor, and music technologist residing in San Francisco, California. Inspired as much by John Cage as Led Zeppelin, Dimuzio's music is like a sonic excursion that transports the listener into other worldly aural realms. “His work has a narrative, filmic tug that will draw you into its dark corners, ears alert… brilliant and rarely less than entertaining.” (Peter Marsh, BBC) His recordings have been released internationally by ReR Megacorp, Asphodel, RRRecords, No Fun Productions, Sonoris, Drone Records, Record Label Records, Odd Size, Seeland, and other independent labels. Among his collaborators are Chris Cutler, Dan Burke, Joseph Hammer, Alan Courtis, Nick Didkovsky, Due Process, Voice of Eye, Fred Frith, David Lee Myers, Phillip Greenlief, Alaric, ISIS, 5uu's, Matmos, Wobbly and Negativland. Recent performances include AngelicA Festival Internazionale di Musica, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, CCRMA at Stanford, Gray Area Buchla Festival, and Ende Tymes Festival of Experimental Art and Liberation, and hosted KPFA’s monthly radio program Frequency Modulation Radio.
Live at the Makeout Room San Francisco