who is the dummy now?
This whole thing started back in 2001 when I was living in Beacon, NY. Robin, Nino and I tried putting something together that combined a fully interactive MIDI network (called "The Internet") that linked all our instruments together. In addition, we would still be able to simultaneously rock out with amps and real drums and stuff. Well, it never really got past coming up with the funny name. Then I moved back to the Finger Lakes. I continued working on the material that I had started writing back in Beacon. I kept the name for myself, but with both Robin and Nino's blessing... they thought it was stupid anyway. I have since finished the first (and possibly last) full-length dotdummy album entitled, Coaxial Moments. This font looks bad in italics.
It should also be noted that around Thanksgiving of '04, Nino mentioned something to me about a GameBoy cart that could be used to make music. I immediately jumped online and found a huge community of people making music with GameBoys and Nintendos and Ataris and Amigas and Commodore 64's and all that jazz. I jumped on and occasionally I'll crank out a finished product in this format. As of late, I've scrapped most of the proper "chip" stuff in favor of the sample-tracker, littlegptracker aka piggy tracker, releasing tracks as B.Leo on the hexawe netlabel.
There is also one other music project that I am working on that is very closely related to the dotdummy thing. It is (we are) called 'shrimps.' We play music. We are funkier than you but hope to awaken the freak inside and bring you down to our level. Our setup very closely resembles the original and above mentioned version of the dotdummy setup. But without Robin's sick guitar chops and Nino's cerebeats (cerebral beats made from breakfast cereal).
So there you go.