“Abstract and nebulous, their music a series of concatenated sounds built around looped backgrounds and field recordings, all held together with percussion and drums, eliciting altogether darker and more unwholesome reactions.” - Psymon Marshall
“Scrat is an invasion of sounds and samples through your headphones, guiding your brain and senses on a trip that goes from musique concrete till comes noise and grinds, a kaleidoscopic journey of improvisations.” – Silvio Novelleto Junior (Nailed Nazarene Industries)
Rorac and I have been making music and noise together for many years. He lives in Sacramento and now I live in Santa Cruz. This is the first project we have sent files back and forth over the interwebs. We just finished our first EP and are now working on our first long release. It should be available on Nailed Nazaren Industries sometime in the near future. We recently got a track added to a Musique Concrete compilation, called Psychological Metaphysics - from IFAR (Institute for Alien Research) and are currently working on a split with Australian noise duo – Godfire. “The Eye of Scrat” is a DIY oscillator fed through a Roland ME-50. Something I have used for awhile under the pseudonym, “Green Jesus”. I send Rorac improvisational sketches to which he drums. He records and mixes those and sends them back to me. “The Eye” may be an instrument of sorts, but typically there are no other conventional instruments other than drums. Rorac does play guitar from time to time. Scrat is experimental, improvisational noise for sure, but it is also very much Musique Concrete. Tracks usually include a single tape loop and samples of field recordings recorded with my phone and portable recorder. As of yet, we have only used our own recordings for sampling. We haven’t yet decided we should be one thing, or another and hope to remain maliable and in a constant state of evolution.
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