Experimental Music

In 2000 a group of highly trained but poorly prepared monkeys met in the desert.

In 2001 these monkeys regrouped to try to get it right.

From 16mm projectors to multichannel video, Camp Image Node has always been a place about audiovisual experimentation, video art, and the occasional dance party.

In the early 80’s, avant-garde radio moguls Peter Moser and Alex Douglas (of Co-Op Radio’s famed Alien Soundtracks program) published a semi-regular zine titled CLEM: Canadian List of Electronic Music. The list operated as a catalog of recent electronic, synth, experimental, and “music of intelligence and feeling” from around the world. For many it was the go-to guide for left-field music at a time when information was not widely available.
 

Dark Day is the minimal electronics brainchild of Robin Crutchfield following his separation with No Wave band DNA. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, Crutchfield was fascinated with both performance art and the most esoteric edge of pop music. After making his escape to New York City in the mid-seventies, he presented several noteworthy performance pieces at the New York Avant Garde Festival, Stefan Eins’ 3 Mercer Street Store and Artists’ Space.

Frank Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.