Oingo Boingo

This material was shot during production of "The Reach Of Resonance," a feature documentary by Steve Elkins, but this material was not used in the film. www.reachofresonance.com "When I first saw Nels and William perform together, it was with Thurston Moore and Mats Gustafsson at UCLA. It was one of the most firebreathing performances of improvisation I've ever witnessed. In the midst of working on "The Reach Of Resonance," I invited Nels to meet up with William and I, at William's studio in Oakland, California in 2005 to improvise together once again. What I discovered when Nels arrived, was that he and William had never actually met! They had merely shaken hands prior to taking the stage for their previous collaboration. This clip is a short segment I edited together of the music that they produced that day, which was radically different from the napalm they unleashed the last time they collided. This time around, they conjured something more akin to a child taking the wrong path in a garden maze...which perhaps in the long run, turns out to be the right one...who is to say?" -Steve Elkins Oakland, California 2005 WILLIAM WINANT, one of the true madmen of percussion, has collaborated with John Cage, Oingo Boingo, Iannis Xenakis, Sonic Youth, Yo-Yo Ma, Keith Jarrett, Steve Reich, John Zorn, Melt Banana, Danny Elfman (Batman Returns), Anthony Braxton, Mr. Bungle, Souxie and the Banshees, Jim O' Rourke, Karlheinz Stockhausen, James Tenney, Cecil Taylor, Mike Patton, and Kronos Quartet, to name only a few. NELS CLINE, long one of the best reasons to live in Los Angeles, is currently a member of Wilco, though his countless collaborations transcend genre and expectation. His bands include The Geraldine Fibbers, Destroy All Nels Cline, Banyan, and The Nels Cline Singers. A cursory list of artists Nels has collaborated with would include: Thurston Moore, Rod Poole, Art Davis, Lydia Lunch, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Zeena Parkins, Norton Wisdom, Mike Watt, Zach Hill, DJ Bonebrake, Devin Sarno, Deerhoof, Jim McAuley, Stephen Perkins, Vinny Golia, Norah Jones, Jon Brion, Carla Bozulich, Billy Higgins, Mark Dresser, Elliott Sharp, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Gregg Bendian, Scott Amendola, Devin Hoff, Mark Isham, Alex Cline, and many others.

• published: 26 Oct 2010
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