BACON TEARS UP BUSINESS is an experimental electronic act which emphasizes that it is "not a laptop operation". The use of vintage synthesizer equipment, drum machines, and a custom-built theremin set up an odd ambient mixture of sound that is more about an atmosphere than a melody. Maddie, the artist, points out that all of the work is being produced live in real time, "by 2 hands, 2 feet, and one mouth."

...but for this show, BACON is teaming up with Los Angeles's little known keyboardist HOSTILE FORK. The Nova Express Cafe has played host to many improvised collaborations, and this one will juxtapose the FORK's modern gear and wafting melodies with BACON's loop-like rhythms and oscillations.

Important note! While still intended as an intimate and free place for bleeding-edge artists to present their work to a casual and socializing cafe-audience, we're trying some significant changes for Nova Wednesday Nights. The time is moving earlier so that people who need to work early on Thursday mornings can still come out for the fun. We'll get the show in gear warming up the audience at 9:00, and start the featured act no later than 9:30. Another performer may then play for those who are sticking around past 10:30...but if you want to you can just stop in for dinner and be assured of catching the featured act between 8:00-10:30.

Doug Wyatt & the Agents of Change, Electronica Unplugged.

About the artist:

DOUG WYATT has been composing and performing original music since 1979. Wyatt joined the avante-rock group Red Letter in 1992, touring with them and contributing to the 1995 release, True North (V Records). He also appears on Red Letter guitarist Robby Aceto’s critically-acclaimed 1996 CD Code (Alchemy Records). Wyatt’s credentials include performing with Mother Mallard, the world’s first synthesizer performance ensemble, from 1998-2000. He played with the group for their 30th anniversary concert as well as a performance at the Smithsonian with guest Keith Emerson.

Since 1986, Wyatt has written state-of-the-art music software, for which he has attained legendary status among musicians. Indeed, many know him solely as creator of the Open Music System (OMS), which Keyboard magazine hailed in 2000 as one of the greatest technological achievements of the previous 25 years. OMS advanced the digital audio workstation by unifying communication among thousands of input devices such as keyboards, samplers, effects and mixers, and music software. OMS is dead, and Wyatt now works in the Core Audio group at Apple Computer.

Born at the crossroads of music and technology, Doug Wyatt lives and thrives there. To this day he splits his time between his own musical journey and making tools for the rest of us.

Early reactions to his new CD, The Dream of 'I:
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“Freaking out, in a beautiful way. Your life, your soundtrack.”

“Electronica is not my thing, so this is Electronica for the rest of us, or as Sonosphere puts it, ‘Electronica Unplugged’, the genre redefined.”

“Disturbed transitions unfold wistful and sullen between peaceful cadences, but a light looms past the horror.”

“That’s very nice.” — Mom