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is a musical collaboration between Mark Favro and Warren Pratten. Our music is made up of pre-composed and live elements. Mark plays keyboards.Warren plays guitar. Both of us contribute to the pre-composed backing tracks over which each person plays live. Our music is all original and draws from our musical backgrounds and interests. The results could be described as electronic and ambient. We meet roughly once a week to experiment with various musical ideas. Some of those ideas serve as a starting point from which we further refine into a composition. In addition, Mark is an accomplished filmmaker and our music has been used in conjunction with Mark's videos both in a live setting and on various internet websites such as Youtube.

NwnS videos

BAKU

(1996-2004)

Mark Favro on keyboards/samples, Owen Curnoe on keyboards/samples/programming and Warren Pratten on guitar.

Baku is the capital city of the former Soviet Republic Azerbaijan. In 1992 Baku was the site of a concert which incorporated noise and natural sounds, including factory whistles, artillery, machine gunners, aircraft, and the foghorn of the Caspian fleet. The spirit of this concert intrigued and impressed us and the band took the name BAKU as a result. We were also inspired by the release of the long awaited BLADE RUNNER soundtrack by Vangelis. BAKU was a departure from what Owen and I had done in the past although we were still layering sound textures into the pieces. Sometimes a microphone would be placed outside the practice room door to record the outside world as we played inside. We rarely did multitrack recording.

Usually it was all three of us playing live and manipulating the midi programming live.

BAKU contributed the Nihilist Spasm Band tribute album

NO TRIBUTE.

Below is a longer take of the track

we are not the Nihilist Spasm Band

and the unused track I have nothing to say.

(1987-1995) Mark Favro on vocals/samplers, Owen Curnoe drums/samplers/vocals and Charles Vincent on bass/guitar/samplers/vocals.

Still interested in Industrial music this band continued what THE BRAIN SHOW had done before but took advantage of MIDI controlled keyboards and drum machines. Charles Vincent and Owen Curnoe programed the MIDI. I explored my song writing and vocalizing with this band.

Charles left the band in 1990 to work on solo projects leaving Owen and I to continue with the band.Owen and I quit after releasing the CHANGE FACE cassette in 1995. By that time I think we had both run out of steam on the project and had taken it as far as it could go.

ANTHROPOMORPHICS released 5 cassettes. I was involved with the 4 listed below.

Mouse click on the cassettes to listen.