HZ documents a series of California performances presented by Burke and Dimuzio in October of 1997. The improvised tracks operate in the desolate arena of post-industrial sound, but the perpetrators take a page from the example of AMM’s jazz-like metamusical interplay to imply a certain, if covert, human presence. Motors purr, hiss, scrape, and groan, setting up a foundation of sonorous drones for Burke and Dimuzio’s sonic manipulations and electronic outbursts. The duo’s efforts range from freakish alien-zoo atmospheres (“Aware,” “Dross,” “Outflow”) to the labored workings of arcane machinery (“Dropforge,” “Rota”). HZ strikes an especially poignant note on “Charastrigor,” as radio strains drift sadly across the rubble of a bomb-scarred city square. —All Music Guide
credits
released October 15, 1999

Dan Burke: Objects, Radio, Electric Guitar, Processors, Tape
Thomas Dimuzio: Sampler, Processor, Loops, Feedback

Recorded Live October 1997
San Francisco, Berkely, Oakland

Recorded by Thomas Dimuzio
Compiled by Dan Burke and Thomas Dimuzio
Mastered at Gench Studios, San Francisco
Cover art by John Dalton
Layout by Anne Bonham

Thanks Mike Rizzi, KALX-FM, Mr. Hate, KFJC-FM, Scott Arford, Trevor Paglen, Chris Rogers, Tim Crowe, Anne Bonham, John Dalton

Upcoming Events’ first impression is of post-millennial paranoia delivered with irony so heavy it could break some bones in your foot if you let it slip. The sleeve design depicts a bunch of cops in riot gear under a marquee trumpeting the title. The tracks have names like “Deregulation,” which tellingly slinks so slowly from silence into audibility that you might not notice it until something bad has happened, or “Freedom Fries.” Fortunately electronicists Dan Burke (of Illusion Of Safety) and Thomas Dimuzio understand the merits of balance, pacing and subtlety; it takes them over forty minutes to get around to confronting the listener with brute power, as personified by a sample of a cop busting a reporter who won’t move on. But quieter doesn’t mean easier; “Closed Circuit’s” layers of pulsing electronics are initially quite lulling, but tiny details gradually magnify, inviting you to wonder who’s turning up the telescope’s resolution.
Bill Meyer -Signal To Noise

eleased July 15, 2008

Dan Burke: Laptop, Objects, Processing, Sound Sources
Thomas Dimuzio: Live Sampling and Processing, Sampler, Feedback, Sound Sources

Edited from live performances recorded November 11, 12 and 13, 2004 in San Francisco (The Luggage Store Gallery), Oakland (21 Grand), and Los Altos Hills (KFJC-FM). Recorded, edited and mastered by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Studios, San Francisco. Design and layout by Thomas Dimuzio. Cover photo by Chris Block.

© 2008 Dan Burke and Thomas Dimuzio
℗ Gench Music [BMI]/Finite Material Context [BMI]