CJ Borosque is a sound artist, DJ, and noisician, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has preformed at the NorCal Noise fest, The Big Sur Experimental Music Festival (2003/04), The Oakland Noise festival and the Spring Reverb experimental music festival in San Diego. CJ has had many sonic incarnations, and grew up in a family of jazz mu...
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CJ Borosque is a sound artist, DJ, and noisician, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has preformed at the NorCal Noise fest, The Big Sur Experimental Music Festival (2003/04), The Oakland Noise festival and the Spring Reverb experimental music festival in San Diego. CJ has had many sonic incarnations, and grew up in a family of jazz musicians (which afforded her the bedrock of her early musical growth) Years of brooding and obsessive introspective delving led her on a journey out of the sonic mainstream, and into the underground, experimental scene in San Francisco. At this date she has released 4 albums, one poetry CD entitled “The Metal Quan Yin”, "Machine" (a purposely out-of-tune 45 minute guitar rant ), "They" (a harsh noise banquet) which was released recently on the Harshnoise label and finally, Bedlam which has recently been released on Edgetone Records. She has 1 album pending release, Aqueous with composer, performer Michelle Webb, CJ typically works in solo or duo configurations. However: from time to time she has been known to be a guest in various larger ensembles, such as:The Lords of Outland.The Abstractions, and Tri-Cornered Tent Show (known for their murder-ballad-improv-stylings). She has played with Kaylee Koombs in the out-ambient duo Swoon Doll and many folks including, Ellen Weller, Bob Weller, Marcos Fernandes, Nathan Hubbard,Robert M, Ignaz Schick, Rent Romus, Andre Costudio, Dina Emerson, Michelle Webb, Jim Ryan, and Matt Davignon to name a few... C J Borosque plays noise pedals, DJ stuff, various electronics and things that catch her ears: her fascinations include, silent films, science fiction, NOISE, and feild recordings. Favorite movies include: Meshes in the Afternoon, Meditation on Violence, The Seventh Seal, Blade Runner, Ugetsu, Mothra, Rivers and Tides, Touch the Sound, Metropolis, Nosferatu, Death Race 2000, PI, Enter the Dragon and lots of other stuff… Favorite Books Include: “Dune”-Frank Herbert, “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”-Phil K. Dick, “The Cat Who Went to Heaven”- Elizabeth Coatsworth and Lynd Ward and the “Complete Works of Emily Dickinson” Current Reading-“Stand Still Like a Hummingbird”-Henry Miller and "What is Life"-By Lyyn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
" ...solo guitar noise a la Lee Ranaldo, Caspar Brotzman. Fine layers of distortion, looping industrial machinery effects, hypnotic and droning mostly, like the sound of working in the bowels of a futuristic steel foundry on the planet moon Titan with robot drones standing guard, heavy artillery at their disposal."- KZSU FM radio
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