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Greg Waltzer

Johnny Doyle
 
 

Greg Waltzer is one of the USA's leading figures in the new electronic music scene. He has performed at many concerts and festivals around the US with diverse bands including Mutation Vector, Fringe Element, xeroid entity, Holosphere, and Technicolor Travel Agency. His Cloud Chamber studio has been the source of more than 20 CDs, on which he not only plays, but does most of the engineering, production, and artwork. As organizer of the electro-music festivals, Pocono Skies, and Hyperspace, Greg has worked diligently to enhance and grow the community of musicians and fans of experimental, electronic and space music.

When performing with Technicolor Travel Agency, Greg plays Nord Modular G2X, Emu PX-7, Nord Micromodular, flutes, electric mandolin and mandola, and melodica. The sequences and rhythms are generated by pseudo-random patterns whose parameters can be adjusted while playing.

Johnny Doyle grew up playing the blues and sitting in with various artists on guitar and harmonica. However when creating his own music, it was usually far from blues and more like new wave or alternative. He played lead guitar for Sway from 1994 until their final show at cbgb's in New York in 1998. After some years of reclusion he was rescued by the late great Ceasar Diaz (Bob Dylan, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, George Harrison), who convinced him to use his talent and start playing music again. Johnny met Greg Waltzer while both were members of the experimental indie band The Sea and the Stars. They discovered they had a mutual interest in exploring music by "painting with sound," with no boundaries, egos, or rules, just channeling something bigger than themselves.

WIth Technicolor Travel Agency, Johnny plays a vintage Harptone modern art guitar and a 1970 reissue Strat, through a series of effects pedals including Diaz Tremodillo, Diaz Texas Sqaureface distortion, Ibanez Chorus and Delay, Cry Baby Wah, and Loop Station.

 
     
  updated August 20, 2011