BARGE: Isaac, please
tell us a little about Ben.
ISAAC: Recently Ben has thrown down at techno parties
with Mike Uzzi, rocked the dance-punk with the Dan Bensons Project,
and played out solo as Localfields. He has released music
with zer0g sounds, Unlockedgroove Records, Unfoundsound Records,
Adhesive Records and Clever Music. He has toured extensively
throughout the US and Europe and his sound art has been exhibited
in the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cooper Hewitt
Museum and the ARS Electronica Center. Ben’s collaboration
with the DSP Music Syndicate called "Concrete Music" won
a prize in the Vida 6.0 Art & Artificial Life Competition. In
collaboration with James Patten, he designed the electronic music
performance tool "Audiopad" that has also won a several
awards. And he got a fucking PhD from the MIT Media Lab. Yawn. Dude's
a boring braggart.
BARGE: Thanks. Now
Ben, please tell me a thing or two about Isaac.
BEN: Isaac is an old, embittered hip hop deejay who spent
the better part of the 90's making mixtapes and playing basement
parties around the upper Midwest. He definitely doesn't
have a PhD from the MIT Media Lab; he kept it real getting his
BA in Journalism at the University of Wisconsin. When he's
not making drone loops or beats to scratch to, Isaac likes to
create and screen-print TFY t-shirts (www.isaacsparks.com).
BARGE: Do you have
any musical influences you wish to share?
TFY: We can't give away our musical influences because
it would take away from the mystery and the joy. However,
we both agree that Master of Puppets is the greatest metal record
of all time.
BARGE: What about
your musical techniques and/or processes for recording and performing
live?
TFY: Unfortunately, we haven't used Technics since early
2005. We drink Sparks (fuck Bud Extra). Port wine
is acceptable. Other red wines work. Botanicals and
quinine are a recent innovation since Isaac's stomach stopped
working. We're looking into ways of bypassing the GI tract
for alcohol intake. We'll keep you posted of our progress.
