Arcane Device

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David Lee Myers in 1988 on the Arcane Device/Engines of Myth cover

Arcane Device is the recording name of New York City-based experimental musician and electric guitarist David Lee Myers (born 1949).[1]

Musical development[]

In the 1960s, David Lee Myers played guitar in a rock band before focusing on the sonic possibilities of audio feedback. Robert Fripp's Frippertronics and Brian Eno soon influenced his feedback machine-based sonic work. Myers began working with this unique form of electronic music in 1980, building his own synthesizers and amplitude modulation circuitry, often releasing his own music on audio cassette. With the discovery of feedback music and the release of his first non-guitar feedback LPs in 1988, Myers established the performing name Arcane Device for himself and achieved some notoriety.[2] His composition from that year entitled Lathe was anthologiezed by Guy-Marc Hinant in An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music #2. All of his cassettes are now rare.[3]

collaborations[]

Arcane Device has collaborated with a variety of artists including Asmus Tietchens, Tod Dockstader, Marco Oppedisano, Joseph Nechvatal, Tom Dimuzio, Ellen Band, Dirk Serries, and Kim Cascone.

Discography[]

  • Mysteries of the Organism - digital (Pulsewidth/Bandcamp 2018)
  • Microcelestial - digital (Pulsewidth/Bandcamp 2018)
  • Spectre - digital (Pulsewidth/Bandcamp 2018)
  • Arcs CD - with Asmus Tietchens (Aufabwegen 2018)
  • Ether Music - CD (Starkland 2017)
  • Superpositions - cassette+digital (Cronica 2017)
  • Noise Matrix Mantras/Modular Waves - double CD (Pulsewidth 2014)
  • Tesla at Coney Island CD with Marco Oppedisano - (OKS Records 2008)
  • Devices 1987-2007 - double CD (Monochrome Vision 2007)
  • Nanotube - CDR (Pulsewidth 2006)
  • Newton's Rings - CDR (Pulsewidth 2006)
  • Two Ships CD - with Ellen Band (Pogus 2005)
  • Bijou CD - with Tod Dockstader (ReR Megacorp 2005)
  • 60:00 - CD with Asmus Tietchens (Line 2004)
  • Pond - CD with Tod Dockstader (ReR Megacorp 2004)
  • Tracers - CD with VidnaObmana aka Dirk Serries (Klanggalerie 2003)
  • Engines of Myth - CD reissue (ReR Megacorp 2003)
  • Uncertain Symmetry - CD with Thomas Dimuzio (Korm Plastics 2002)
  • Ouroboros - CD (Pulsewidth 2001)
  • Dyed Smear Live - mini CD (Generator 2001)
  • Flussdichte - CD with Asmus Tietchens (Disco-Bruit 1996)
  • Speiseleitung - CD with Asmus Tietchens (Raum 132 1994)
  • Envoi In Cumin - CD (PlayLoud 1994)
  • DBL_FDBK - CD with Asmus Tietchens (Still Andacht 1993)
  • Trout - CD (Silent Records 1993)
  • Diabolis Ex Machina - CD (Staalplaat 1992)
  • Also Sprach Zarathustra - CD (Anckarstrom 1990)
  • Improvisations for Feedback - double 7-inch discs (RRRecords 1988)
  • Engines of Myth - LP (ReR Megacorp 1988)
  • too many compilations to list

External links[]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ [1] Arcane Device listing at discogs
  2. ^ [2] David Lee Myers at allmusic
  3. ^ [3] David Lee Myers at ultravillage


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