2002: Sonic Scream Orchestra

Kattt Sammon & friends: voices
Yehudit: electric violin
Danielle Degruttola: electric cello
Phillip Everett: drums/percussion
Jesse Quattro: voice
CJ Reaven Borosque: reading
Bob Marsh: cello/vibes
Rent Romus: reeds/things
Dave Mihaly: drums
Bill Noertker: bass

Kattt Sammon (vocalist, actress and composer) started out in Dallas radio. She studied voice, acting and movement with Lissa Tyler Renaud. Movement studies have included the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, Rudolph Laban, Andre Bernard and Bonnie Bainridge Cohen. Ms Sammon was featured in the performance art piece "Futuressencexxx" by Gerhard Stabler and Kunsu Shim for performances in the Essen and Duisburg Art Festivals in Germany. In January 2002 she collaborated on the theatrical collage piece "Herbst Traume" at Earport in Duisburg, Germany. Ms Sammon has performed at venues such as Beanbenders, Meridian Gallery, The Lab, New Langton, and many others.

She is involved in collaboration with Andrew Harkins and Peggy DeCoursey, The on-going "Futuressencexxx" performances in collaboration with the wunderbar composer/performance artists Gerhard Stabler and Kunsu Shim along with Peggy DeCoursey, Kevin Morrison and Kathie Schmid. In November 2002, we are scheduled to perform in NYC. On-going collaboration with Marianne McDonald on Harp.

Violinist Yehudit (pronounced "yeah who DEET") is making a place for herself in the forefront of the jazz mainstream, demonstrating that the electric violin, in Yehudit's hands, is a convincing and innovative jazz instrument. A classically trained player with a solid grounding in the jazz idiom, her extensive professional experience encompasses ensembles as diverse as the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and the jazz/blues band John Handy with Class. Performing on a five-string, all-electric violin, she produces a varied sonic palette, ranging from boppish licks and wails to warm, singing melody. Her music is firmly rooted in straight-ahead jazz, and spiced with blues, free improvisation, and a dash of funk.

Danielle Degruttola was born in Boston, MA. She is a composer and cellist and has performed on both acoustic and electric cello throughout the Bay area, the United States and Europe. She moved to Oakland in 1994 to attend the Center of Contemporary Music at Mills College and received her MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media. She has also studied performance, electronic music, and composition at Smith College (BFA), Berklee College of Music, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She has performed with many outstanding artists including John Oswald, Cecil Taylor, Buckethead, Henry Kaiser, Vince Welnick, Greg Goodman, Lukas Ligeti, Prairie Prince, Paul Plimley, Miya Masaoka, and Pauline Oliveros.

Her video projects includes appearances on MTV music videos (Journey, Will & the Bushmen), and cable network appearances on the Sci-Fi Channel and USA Network ("Cool Tech" show) and "21st Century Home" show.

Danielle has worked quite extensively with improvisational music, analog and digital recording, electronics and computers; writing computer programs using MAX (an object-orientated computer language) to develop interactive cello and electronic music pieces. Her experience with composition, electronics and cello performance in a variety of genres (improvisation, rock, jazz, fusion, classical, modern, hardcore, Indian, etc.) allows for a flexible and textural addition to all different types of live and recorded music projects.

C.J. Reaven Borosque is a deep new contemporary San Francisco Bay Area writer, musician, and abstract visual artist. From the time she was eight, her love for science fiction shows through her art while starkly melding sociopolitical issues of our times. Her uncompromising writings present stark truths about society at large, and the ever-changing mindset of the world and its myriad of cultural ehtic, enveloped in abstract futuristic fantasy and surreal mindscapes. Her influences include Phil K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Madeline L'Engle, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, and Allen Ginsberg. Edgetone is proud to release her first of many books to come of this new genre of poetry entitled, “The Metal Quan Yin”. Currently, her most recent poem The Metal Quan Yin can be found on Dark Planet.

In 2000, The Lords of Outland presented a series of new music pieces based on man of her exploratory writings entitled "The Desitinations Suite" in the first season of the SIMM Series in San Fransico. In April of 2002, Edgetone will release an addition to her new book a CD of music written to her works by Rent Romus’ Lords of Outland.

Bob Marsh performs regularly on violin, cello, piano, vibraphone, flute, and uses extended vocal techniques. He is the leader of the Emergency String Quartet, the Robot Martians, the Illuminated Orchestra, Opera viva; co-leader of Lucha de Leche with Ernesto Diaz-Infante and member of Aaron Bennett's Nonet and Jim Ryan's Left Coast Improv Group. Current musical projects include : Gene Coleman's "Ensemble Noamnesia", Fred Lomberg-Holm's "Phenomenal String Quartet", Marc Perlish's "Stray Quartet", duo with Blaise Siwula in "(a+b) squared", founder/director "Quintessentials".

Dave Mihaly: After studying drums with Andrew Cyril in New Jersey, this tall mantis-like creative master has been heard with countless groups and artists such as, Bando, Victoria Williams, and Eartha Kitt. He is however known in the Bay Area for his work with the Kalideophone Big Band, and After the End of the World Cortet. Currently, Mihaly can be heard on After the End of the World Cortet CD 13, and Rent Romus' Lords of Outland.

Bill Noertker has been an active member of the Bay Area music and composing scene for the last fourteen years. He studied jazz history and theory in the early '80's with Bobby Bradford, Ornette Colman's first trumpet player. He began composing under the tutelage of Albert Ryz-Ryzky in the band Bardo in the late 80's. In 1989, he and other members of Bardo formed the After the End of the World Coretet (AEWC) as a forum for their compositional and improvisational ideas. The AEWC has released 3 recordings and continues to perform a unique style of jazz. Currently, Noertker is the bassist for the Lords of Outland.

Noertker has collaborated with dancers, composing music for ODC's "Pilot Project", and for "Liberty's Breast." He is currently composing music and seeking funding for two projects, "Angels and Acrobats," a jazz ballet inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, and "San Francisco Suite," tone portraits of San Francisco neighborhoods.

Artist (photo by Photographer)