NEW!!! The Shining Path - Dimmer

Dimmer is a duo comprising live sampling pioneer Thomas Dimuzio and tape-loop maestro Joseph Hammer. swallowing audiences with their dark explorations of sound, Dimmer specializes in a symbiotic sound process as they continually loop, reloop, sample and resample within an interactive feedback circuit linking both artists. For their debut CD, Dimmer melds their recursive circuits into rich and seething sonic masses with subtle waves pulsing sound within sound. Ripe with theme and variation, The Shining Path suspends the listener over dim and dank planes on an aural trip spanning and scanning from a celestial vista. Nearly every aspect of Dimmer's live performances grace The Shining Path, yet this is not a live document, but rather a pastiche and reworking of everything Dimmer has accomplished in their years of performing as a duo. Jointly released by Melon Expander, Gench, and LAFMS.

Upcoming Shows

April 24, 2008
Anti-Ear
Mitchell Brown
Pigs In The Ground
Thomas Dimuzio
Edinburgh Castle
950 Geary St.
San Francisco, CA
11P $8

May 18, 2008
Ice Cream Time (Nick Didkovsky, Arte Saxophone Quartett & Thomas Dimuzio)
FIMAV
Collisée
Victoriaville, Quebec
3P

Absolutely Free mp3's

Gench Concert Archives
Thomas Dimuzio and friends

Mono::Poly MP Free
MP3 adjuncts to Mono::Poly

Brilliant Noise remixes
Fat Cat Records offers free alternate soundtracks of Semiconductor's stunning "Brilliant Noise".

Rotate Vortex
Matmos/Wobbly/Thomas Dimuzio
Live at Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco
November 2003

The Chopping Channel
Negativland presents Over The Edge Radio. Recorded live on KPFA March 23, 2006

Brickolage
Chris Cutler and Thomas Dimuzio
T'um

Shoil
Thomas Dimuzio
T'um

Live at WKCR-FM Oct 22 2003
Thomas Dimuzio
Live Constructions WKCR-FM

Live at WKCR-FM Mar 23 2001
Scott Arford and Thomas Dimuzio
Live Constructions WKCR-FM

Planes Fly, Babies Cry
Scott Arford and Thomas Dimuzio
Cabinet Magazine/Immaterial

Gench Concert Archives featuring more than two hours of free mp3 files!!!

The Gench Concert Archives features solo and collaborative performances by Thomas Dimuzio and friends. Experience each concert in its entirety as it unfolds from beginning to end. Available as specially priced CD-R's through the Gench Store with generous MP3 excerpts available as free downloads. Volume one comprises ten concerts featuring Anla Courtis, Elliott Sharp, Michael T. Jackson, Mitchell Brown, and Scott Arford & Chris Fitzpatrick. Coming soon is Gench Concert Archives Volume Two featuring ten additional shows including work with Dan Burke, Due Process, Chris Cutler, Joseph Hammer, and Kadet Kuhne.

Slew - Thomas Dimuzio

Slew pools more than a decade of studio works spanning compilations issued by RRRecords, Tzadik, Alku, Realization, Digital Narcis, Self Abuse, Cuneiform and other groundbreaking labels. More than a compilation of compilation tracks, Slew documents the evolution of an artist dedicated to an immersive world of sound and aural vision. Bringing together many out of print and hard to find gems, Slew blurs the bounds of electro-acoustic, digital musique concrete, drone, noise, dark ambient and industrial. Dimuzio’s sonic reworkings range from an Elvis impersonator (on parade), junkyard ambiance, electric guitar, piano, voice, clarinet, feedback and shortwave sounds to cellist Tom Cora and the music of Dr. Nerve. Also featured is a new bonus track constructed from Dimuzio’s locked-groove submissions for the releases RRR-500 (RRRecords) and LockERS (E.R.S.). Slew charts the path of a prolific sound artist and composer who has never been content to rest on his laurels, and points a reference to where his future musical journeys may take him.

RECENT RELEASES...

Mono :: Poly
Thomas Dimuzio

This joint Gench/Asphodel double CD release,"Mono :: Poly", chronicles five years of the solo and collaborative performances of Thomas Dimuzio. One disc solo, and the second with an all-star cast of collaborators, featuring Scott Arford, Dan Burke, Chris Cutler, Nick Didkovsky, DJ Qbert, Fred Frith, Joseph Hammer, Anna Homler, Scot Jenerik, The Jet Black Hair People, Kadet Kuhne , Rick Potts, Atau Tanaka , Wobbly, Yasuhiro Otani and Zipperspy.

“... a luminous snapshot of an artist, who deserves widespread exposure. Highly recommended.” — All About Jazz

“One of the top ten albums of 2002.” — Citypages

Uncertain Symmetry
David Lee Myers and Thomas Dimuzio

New York's David Lee Myers and San Francisco's Thomas Dimuzio shared a stage at Tonic in New York City in March 2001–Myers' first public performance in ten years–which immediately sparked a year long regenerative process. The product of these manipulations is the result of a bicoastal ping-ponging which is an even balance between the two artists­ symmetrical­ but which the specific contributions from each can no longer be determined. Released by Korm Plastics.

“At peak intensity, their jagged music threatens to pierce the skin.” — The Wire

“A very varied CD, both in style and in atmosphere. Recommended.” — Vital Weekly

Dust
Chris Cutler and Thomas Dimuzio

"The first of two tracks is a long Requiem which for me turned out to be a very serious piece of work - and unrepeatable, captured at a concert in New Mexico. Whatever were we thinking? It's followed by a studio piece, mixing raw binaural sound with sophisticated and radical secondary processing. I use my extended electrified kit and Tom his state of the art sample and real-time processing rig and we try to work as a single, highly complex and sophisticated instrument, with two brains and a mind of its own." —Chris Cutler

“...filled with unheard sounds and textures.” (4 stars) — All Music Guide

“One of the top 100 albums of 2002.” — LA Weekly

ISIS "Holy Tears" Remix

Art Metal masters ISIS recently invited Dimuzio to contribute a remix of "Holy Tears" for their "Not In Rivers, But In Drops" EP (Ipecac Records).

Dan Burke and Thomas Dimuzio - Upcoming Events

Recorded live in the Bay Area in the fall of 2004, the duo's new record "Upcoming Events" will be released by No Fun Records in July 2008.

5.1 "Brilliant Noise" remix for UK's Semiconductor

Stunning NASA images of the sun combine with Dimuzio's sounds and processing for the recently completed 5.1 remix of Semiconductor's "Brilliant Noise", on Fat Cat Records.

Early Dimuzio cassette releases now available on CDR

Dimuzio cassette recordings from the late 80's and early 90's, including "Delineation of Perspective", "19th Monkey Schism", "Flux", "Sone Songs", Remote" and "lightswitch", have all been remastered for digital posterity. Available on CD-R exclusively through gench.com.

Professional CD Mastering

Gench Mastering Studios: Deploying the best in analog and digital gear, have Thomas Dimuzio master your next CD release. gench.com

Recent clients include PTV3, Negativland, Fred Frith, Xiu Xiu, Sagan, Blevin Blectum, Matmos, Wobbly, From Monument To Masses, Gonervill (featuring Mirv and Brain), Mono Pause, ISIS, Warner Jepson, Good For Cows, Nick Didkovsky, and many others.

Ice Cream Time
Nick Didkovsky/Arte Saxophone Quartett/Thomas Dimuzio

Didkovsky's hour-long epic "Ice Cream Time" was released on New World Records in August, 2007. Look for the ensemble to perform at FIMAV in Victoriaville in May 2008, and a European tour later in the year.

Sound Libraries

Big Fish Audio acquires Fred Frith/Tom Cora's Etymology and Rova Saxophone Quartet's Rovamatic sound libraries from Rarefaction (each produced by Dimuzio).

Rotate Vortex
Matmos/Wobbly/Dimuzio

Rotate Vortex a free full length MP3 album by Matmos, Wobbly and Dimuzio. Recorded over 2 days at Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in San Francisco.

The Chopping Channel
Negativland presents Over The Edge Radio

Here's a free full length MP3 album by The Chopping Channel (Don Joyce, Peter Conheim, Jon Leidecker & Thomas Dimuzio). Performed March 23, 2006 as a live Over The Edge radio broadcast and later distilled to a succinct hour of sweet salable sonic confectionaries.

Poptastic Productions

POPTASTIC PRODUCTIONS
Chris Fitzpatrick and Thomas Dimuzio have completed production of Poptastic's debut Teen Pop Noise Virus. To be released on Seeland in 2008.