WTBTN artist profile: Wisteriax

Here's another woman whose work will be on my Women Take Back the Noise CD compilation. Her website includes some lovely photos (such as the one above) and a link to some of her mp3's, however all of the tracks on the compilation will be previously unreleased ones, so you'll just have to wait to hear what she sent me ;)

Wisteriax

BIOGRAPHY

I've played the cello since I was a little girl, though any of my former teachers will attest that I never studied very seriously.

At some point in my college career, I wanted to join a rock band. But the only instrument I really knew how to play was cello.

I soon joined forces with my first band, a dark synthpop group who did minor key versions of early 80's tunes. I learned about how to amplify the cello to make it audible above the other instruments. But I wasn't satisfied with that after awhile.

I started borrowing guitar effects pedals to see how they would change the cello's sound. Some worked very well, and others didn't. I found that the more I could mutate the sound, the happier I was. When I wasn't in the studio with my other bands, I soon began to record myself playing noise patterns on cello using outlandish sounds.

Now that there's so much music editing software available, I've decided to take those recordings and make cohesive songs out of them. I also enjoy contributing sounds to other artists for their recording and performance projects.