artist: BRENT GUTZEIT & MICHAEL ESPOSITO
title: Enemy
label: Firework Edition
country: Sweden
format: CD
title: Enemy
label: Firework Edition
country: Sweden
format: CD
Brent Gutzeit is a musician, label owner and instrument designer who lives in Chicago.
After graduating from Western Michigan University in 1994 with a degree in sculpture,
Gutzeit moved to Japan where he formed TV Pow with Michael Hartman. Hartman and
Gutzeit had been in a band together called Liminal in Kalamazoo, they were joined Todd
Carter in TV Pow and after a return to the States and a move to Chicago, TV Pow toured
Japan in 1997. Gutzeit started the BOXmedia label to release music from the growing
Chicago improvised music scene as well as musicians from beyond Cook County.
BOXmedia called it quits in 2004. A new label, Trust Lost, was started by Gutzeit in 2006,
releasing music from such artists as Astro, Spykes, Kevin Drumm and TV Pow. Gutzeit has
created many homemade instruments, including a 20 string upright steel bass strung with
piano wire and a 3 string instrument strung with 100 foot piano wires. Brent Gutzeit
currently lives in Chicago at Enemy (where this CD was recorded), a not-for-profit space that
hosts live experimental music. Current active projects include : TV Pow, Medium, Stumble
- an improvised punk band featuring Gutzeit on guitar and vocals, Michael Zerang on
drums and Fred Lonberg-Holm on bass and vocals. He has also recently joined Chicago
drone band DRMWPN, and continues to play in a variety of settings with different musicians.
Michael Esposito is a specialized audio scientist in the area of Electronic Voice
Phenomenon. A former Psy-ops officer in Iraq, Michael has both a technical background
and understanding of the human mind. Michael Esposito is the audio specialist and co-star
of the popular DVD 'Dead Whisper' and gives talks on Ghost Hunting using scientific
technology that is more and more proving the existence of the afterlife. The realm of the
'paranormal' is rooted in quantum mechanics. Michael Esposito is a long time colleague of
Medium / Psychic Robbie Thomas, who is currently touring America with plans to tour in
Australia in 2008.
Recorded 22 February 2008, and 02 March 2008.
Narrator: Rola Esposito
EVPs from Phantom Airwaves CaseFile PAW070
As is always the case with EVP (Electro Voice Phenomenon) recordings, repeat play
is necessary in order to catch their fleeting occurrences. While the EVPs are repeated for
the listener to take note o on these releases, further study is still warranted. It should be
noted that Esposito's releases are not only intended to be viewed as documents of the
phenomenon, but as sound art works as well.
After graduating from Western Michigan University in 1994 with a degree in sculpture,
Gutzeit moved to Japan where he formed TV Pow with Michael Hartman. Hartman and
Gutzeit had been in a band together called Liminal in Kalamazoo, they were joined Todd
Carter in TV Pow and after a return to the States and a move to Chicago, TV Pow toured
Japan in 1997. Gutzeit started the BOXmedia label to release music from the growing
Chicago improvised music scene as well as musicians from beyond Cook County.
BOXmedia called it quits in 2004. A new label, Trust Lost, was started by Gutzeit in 2006,
releasing music from such artists as Astro, Spykes, Kevin Drumm and TV Pow. Gutzeit has
created many homemade instruments, including a 20 string upright steel bass strung with
piano wire and a 3 string instrument strung with 100 foot piano wires. Brent Gutzeit
currently lives in Chicago at Enemy (where this CD was recorded), a not-for-profit space that
hosts live experimental music. Current active projects include : TV Pow, Medium, Stumble
- an improvised punk band featuring Gutzeit on guitar and vocals, Michael Zerang on
drums and Fred Lonberg-Holm on bass and vocals. He has also recently joined Chicago
drone band DRMWPN, and continues to play in a variety of settings with different musicians.
Michael Esposito is a specialized audio scientist in the area of Electronic Voice
Phenomenon. A former Psy-ops officer in Iraq, Michael has both a technical background
and understanding of the human mind. Michael Esposito is the audio specialist and co-star
of the popular DVD 'Dead Whisper' and gives talks on Ghost Hunting using scientific
technology that is more and more proving the existence of the afterlife. The realm of the
'paranormal' is rooted in quantum mechanics. Michael Esposito is a long time colleague of
Medium / Psychic Robbie Thomas, who is currently touring America with plans to tour in
Australia in 2008.
Recorded 22 February 2008, and 02 March 2008.
Narrator: Rola Esposito
EVPs from Phantom Airwaves CaseFile PAW070
As is always the case with EVP (Electro Voice Phenomenon) recordings, repeat play
is necessary in order to catch their fleeting occurrences. While the EVPs are repeated for
the listener to take note o on these releases, further study is still warranted. It should be
noted that Esposito's releases are not only intended to be viewed as documents of the
phenomenon, but as sound art works as well.