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99 Hooker, poet, video maker, saxophonist, has collaborated with Martha Colburn, Benton Bainbridge, Thad Povey and among many others. Two sixty minute collections of 99 Hooker videos are available, and a third collection (1999-2001) is to be released in January, 2002, including the music of Akio Mokuno, Borbetomagus, Fracture, Casio Shack, Bible Launcher and cult favorite Deep Fat Fried Grinder. Tzadik released and then destroyed under threat of lawsuit Bible Launcher (unconscious vocals channeling Larry Flynt and various evangelists); 99 Hooker (rants) releases are available on Megaphone, PAX, No Solution, Limited Sedition, French Import, Radical House, as well as with Baltimore’s Dramatics, Ron Anderson and Happy New Year, and many others. He appears on over twenty CDs. 99 Hooker has been published mostly in small magazines, such as Cyanosis (San Francisco), Tales for the Waiting Room (Just Press, Marin, CA), Sandbox (NYC), Revue & Corigee (France), web reviews for what is now a part of TV Guide, and others.

N.Y. based Japanese avant-garde noisician Akio Mokuno performs regularly around the East Village in New York City with his various projects including the ElectroPutas, FreshFish, Roots, and with 99 Hooker. He is the curator of the +/_ experimental music series at Bar 16 in NYC. His music is recorded on No Solution, Pax Recordings, S/t Electro Putas, and Super Genius Records.

Chris Forsyth is a Brooklyn, NY based electric guitarist who plays improvised music. His ongoing projects include All Time Present (with Toshi Makihara, Rich Gross, Ethan Sklar, and David Gould), W.O.O. Revelator (with Bonnie Kane and Ray Sage), Djalma Movement & Music Ensemble (with Neel Murgai, Jeff Gburek, Rich Gross, and Ephia), and a duo with Ernesto Diaz-Infante. These groups have performed throughout the United States since 1997, and have releases available on the Evolving Ear, Sweetstuff Media, and Pax Recordings labels. In addition, he has performed in NYC with Loren Mazzacane Connors, Assif Tsahar, Daniel Carter, Gary Smith, Mike Pride and as a solo curated by Derek Bailey. Chris has studied with Richard Lloyd and Joe Morris, and he is the curator of the Bunker Annex Series of improvised music at the Knitting Factory in NYC.

San Francisco based pianist/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante is an active performer, improviser, and composer of instrumental chamber music; he has had performances and radio broadcasts all over the world. His music is recorded on Bottomfeeder, Evolving Ear, InstrumenTales, Pax, pfMENTUM, Staalplaat, Sweet Stuff Media, and Zzaj. Diaz-Infante has performed/collaborated with numerous musicians including Jeff Arnal, Dan DeChellis, Bruce Eisenbeil, Chris Forsyth, Philip Gayle, Boris Hauf, Bill Horist, Bob Marsh, Dick Metcalf, Donald Miller, Kurt Newman, Nmperign, Rev.99, Blaise Siwula, W.O.O Revelator and Jack Wright. He is the curator of the Luggage Store Gallery (Creative Music Thursdays) series in San Francisco and The Big Sur Experimental Music Festival in Big Sur, California.

Turn A Deaf Ear
   Ernesto Diaz-Infante (guitar, piano, percussion)
   Chris Forsyth (guitar)
   99 Hooker (chaos poetry, saxophone)
   Akio Mokuno (g3 powerbook)
   Ross Bonadonna (studio manipulation; mix/master)

Environmental improv: composition by temperament & inheritance, playing as one walks in a group, conscious of sound, economics and disdaining The Jam.

This recording pairs two duos: Akio Mokuno and 99 Hooker who have been performing out of NY for the last three years and Chris Forsyth and Ernesto Diaz-Infante who have just released their second recording, Wires and Wooden Boxes.

Environmental improv begins in fact: recorded music differs essentially from live performance. The "improv world" has never resolved spontaneous concert experience with mechanical reproduction. It wants to, but it won’t. The two cannot be reconciled. CDs are objects, concerts are experiences.

This improvisation is akin to the multiple pressures that determine the rhythms and gestures of using a remote control. The "musicianship" here is an environmental improvisation that plays with the day using the language of sound.

7 tracks in 51:17 minutes.

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