KBD
KBD is an improvisational cooperative of conceptual sound artists from Toledo, Ohio founded in 2006. The group features Gabe Beam on electronics and guitar, and Michael Kimaid on drums, percussion, and electronics. The group performs as a duo or as a trio with variable collaborators Ryan Dohm on trumpet and electronics, and Colin Helb on prepared strings and electronics. Anton Jessberger engineers much of the cooperative's recording, and occasionally performs with its members. The group's home base is the Robinwood Concert House in the historic Old West End section of Toledo--Gabe's home at which he hosts performances several times a year.
The French economist Jacques Attali wrote in Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1977), that "music is more than an object of study; it is a way of perceiving the world…It is thus necessary to imagine radically new theoretical forms, in order to speak to new realities." Members of The KBD Sonic Cooperative take to their instruments with such principles in mind. KBD abandons the expectations of rhythm and structure to pursue the big sound, the intergalactic hum that our modern circumstance prevents us from hearing: the natural successive rhythm of seasons, ocean currents, aviary migration patterns, and galactic cycle. “The One” that so much of modern music insists upon occurring every four beats might not come on that day. “The One” might not come in our lifetime, or in this geological epoch for that matter. Abandoning “The One” and seeking “The Sound” is recognizing that we are part of something larger, and playing along with it.
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