Showing posts with label San Diego Reader. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Diego Reader. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Bobby Bray + Bryan Oczkowski = Pure Data Machine


Bobby Bray of The Locust talks about his new band Innerds and the Pure Data machine that he and Batwings guitarist Bryan Oczkowski built:

[“We decided we wanted something that doesn’t exist,” Bobby Bray (The Locust), a student of interdisciplinary computing and the arts at UCSD, says at the Camel’s Breath Inn in Mission Valley. “So we rolled up our sleeves and made it ourselves.”
The Pure Data Machine, a collaboration with Bryan Oczkowski of Batwings, is a customizable effects controller based on an open-source program called Pure Data. The box of knobs, switches, lights, photocells, and a joystick runs off of a thumb drive, so data is easily exchanged and modified. The apparatus was recently unveiled during the Experimental Guitar Show at Soda Bar.
“It can be argued that sound and timbre metaphorically symbolize thoughts and feelings that cannot be explained otherwise via language,” Bray says. “If you believe that to be true, then you are going to become reliant upon effect companies to define what you can communicate.”]

- Western Spaghettification by Chad Deal

Originally published in the San Diego Reader. February 23rd, 2011.

Photo by Dennis Bersales

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Back-When Desert-Punk



"Coupla clever ones Monday night as that back-when desert-punk band Batwings flutter into Tin Can Ale House, where they’ll pop the tops offa K-Holes and Stickers...."

hahaha.

P.S. - we are also the backup plan on Monday according to CityBeat's
"If I were U" Section


Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Batwings in the San Diego Reader

Check out the article on Batwings in this week's San Diego Reader. Pick up a copy or read the article here:


Originally published in the San Diego Reader. Nov. 17, 2010.

[“That whole Chilean-miner story was weird for me,” Batwings singer/keys/bassist Robert Lopez relates in the band’s Mission Valley practice space. “It’s this feeling of being stuck and told you can’t get out. A lot of our lyrics in the past have revolved around El Centro desert and being kinda stuck.”]


Batwings Rejuvenated - by Chad Deal

Photo by Chris Woo