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TOM HAMILTON has been composing and performing for over 40 years, and his work with electronic music originated in the late-60s era of analog synthesis. Hamilton often explores the interaction of many simultaneous layers of activity, prompting the use of “present-time listening” on the part of both performer and listener.

Hamilton appears on synthesizer in his own ensembles, and has performed as a member of Slybersonic Tromosome and the Noisy Meditation Band (Peter Zummo), The Spinozas (David Soldier), and Analogos (Michael Schumacher). He has recently performed with Thomas Buckner, Lisle Ellis, Bruce Eisenbeil, Chris Mann, Al Margolis, and Jacqueline Martelle. Hamilton was a 2005 Fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbria, Italy. His CD London Fix received an award in the 2004 Prix Ars Electronica. He is a longtime member of composer Robert Ashley’s touring opera ensemble, and his audio production can be found in over 60 CD releases of new and experimental music.

“Shadow Machine,” the new CD by the Hamilton/Eisenbeil duo, has been released by Pogus Productions. More info at www.myspace.com/hamiltoneisenbeil

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Nord Modular Keyboard, Macintosh Powerbook


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Tom Hamilton / Bruce Eisenbeil: Shadow Machine

Read "Shadow Machine" reviewed by John Sharpe


Guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil continues to push beyond the outer reaches of the guitar universe, building on the work of pioneers like Derek Bailey and Fred Frith. His career trajectory takes him ever farther from the jazz mother lode, and his last outing--on Totem>'s Solar Forge (ESP, 2008)--stretched the boundaries of the guitar power trio to breaking point. Before that he had a series of fine releases to his name on the CIMP label, as well as appearances with Cecil Taylor ...

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Tom Hamilton / Bruce Eisenbeil: Shadow Machine

Read "Shadow Machine" reviewed by Martin Longley


Hazily speaking, electronicist Tom Hamilton emerges from a modern classical realm, while guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil inhabits the jazz improvising zone. On this album, such stylistic concerns are very nearly unimportant, as the pair are engaging in their own language of free improvisation. There's more space in this music, although Hamilton and Eisenbeil never cut back on their particular type of fluid hyperactivity. The synth-man uses a Nord modular device, which operates in vintage analogue mimicry mode. He scoops himself out ...

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Tom Hamilton - Pieces for Kohn/Formal and Informal Music (1976, 1981)

Tom Hamilton - Pieces for Kohn/Formal and Informal Music (1976, 1981)

Source: Something Else!

By PicoNot the bass player for Aerosmith, but a musician named “Tom Hamilton" with a more ambitious calling.For more than forty years, the nonpop New Music composer and performer Hamilton has treated music as a laboratory for experimentation, and a pioneer of using electronics for anarchistic, fringe forms of music. Tom's so far off ahead in the horizon that most musicians and listeners can't even see him. Those who can, appreciate his inquisitive nature that leads ...

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New Release by Tom Hamilton/Bruce Eisenbeil

New Release by Tom Hamilton/Bruce Eisenbeil

Source: All About Jazz

SHADOW MACHINE April 2009 Release

SHADOW MACHINE is the first CD by Tom Hamilton and Bruce Eisenbeil, whobegan playing music together in 2007. Coherence without predictability,speed without tempo, direction without a roadmap - an unlikely foray intothe world of out-jazz and free improvisation.

It's a duo that thwarts expectations of its specific instrumentation. The artists hybridize the language of electronic sound through Eisenbeil's guitar and Hamilton's virtual analog synthesizer, and the live-in-the-studio tracks insure that the performances impart maximum physicality ...

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