About
UnKindness Of Ravens formed in 1991 as an experiment with group consciousness modification and unconventional sound construction. Over time, this experiment coalesced into a practice of music-making.
While the large and often changing ensemble uses some traditional instrumentation, the bulk of its sound comes from self-constructed instruments—often created much like its music, in surreal automatic style shifting as the course of play dictates. We describe this as performing musical scribble, a method of recording and composing. UnKindness Of Ravens records the sound first and composes the songs second.
Musical scribble, is a blend of the excitement, astonishment, and absorbed improvisition with the method of reverse composition that we think of as exposition. Joshua Chalifour and Michael Keigher treat the recordings as sound palettes for composing (exposing) the albums.
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(P.S. we are not the Irish “doom metal” band nor the German “electro-rock” band. We predate those groups and do not know them.)
