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Ron Anderson: musician
RON ANDERSON is a multi-instrumentalist intuitive
music maker who plays traditional instruments like the electric guitar but also will use
anything that can make a sound - including the
recording studio. He has 47 recordings released with the newest CD being
Motel by his trio avant-rock trio PAK.
He
has performed in 15 different countries with multiple tours of North America,
Europe and Japan.
Ron was a co-founder of the notorious rock group RAT AT RAT R in
Philadelphia
1980- 81. It was in Philadelphia that he purchased 2 reel to reel tape recorders
and started experimenting with tape editing, found sounds, noise, improvisation
and combining these with composition.
In
1982 Ron moved to New York City's Lower East Side. He continued to experiment,
moving to Downtown Brooklyn in 1984 starting his first recording studio where he
held weekly improvisation nights, releasing his first recording (on vinyl) Fever
Dream in 1987. Throughout the 80's performed in many of the clubs in New
York's Downtown music scene, CBGB'S, LA MAMA, THE PYRAMID, THE GAS STATION, THE
KNITTING FACTORY with various groups and musicians. At this time he worked on
tape installations for various art galleries, composed music for two premier
performances of the ROBERT SMALL DANCE COMPANY at DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP and ST.
MARKS CHURCH.
Moved to Oakland, CA in 1989, set up a new studio. 1990 began his longest
running project THE MOLECULES. These bad boys of new music developed a
controversial approach of free rock and dada concepts, which left them equally
loved and hated in San Francisco. Completing
a total of 6 CDs and an unreleased triple cd set. Their first called Steel Toe was released in 1991.
Toured the U.S.A. in 1992, the East Coast of the U.S.A. in 1997. Also Europe in
1993,94,95,97 including festivals - MUSIC ACTION 93 -Nancy, France, VORAX - Vicenza, Italy, EUROCOT
- Zurich, Switzerland. One tour of Japan in 1995. Ron
played in VACUUM TREE HEAD which has released 2 CD's and HAPPY NEW YEAR who have
released 2 CDs, toured the East and West Coasts of the U.S.A., one European tour
in 1995, playing in MUSIC ACTION 95. Ron has recorded one studio CD and one live
in Tokyo with YOSHIDA TATSUYA.
August of 1998 Ron moved to Geneva, Switzerland. Started a recording project
with members of the French Band ULAN BATOR. Followed by a European tour in
November of 23 concerts in 25 days, performing
every night in two groups, RONRUINS and the British band GUAPO. Tour of Italy in
April 1999 with METAL EATER (a duet with STEVE BUCHANAN). Metal Eater also
performed in the 4thTOURNOI EUROPEEN D' IMPROVISATION MUSICALE in Poitiers,
France.
Returning to the USA in August 1999, Ron moved back to New York City. In
November he performed in the DENSITES FESTIVAL 6 EDITION in Verdun, France with
a new trio called NO PLAN (with OLIVIER PAQUOTTE and PETER HOLLINGER) formulated
by the festival. 2000 brought a ten-concert tour of Japan with RONRUINS, and the
formation of his new group
PAK, who did an East Coast/Midwest tour of the USA with RUINS. THE INFUSION,
Ron with OLIVIER PAQUOTTE and CAMEL ZEKRI went into the studio to
record and give a few concerts in France at the beginning of 2001. NO PLAN
was invited to perform at MUSIC ACTION 2001 (Nancy, France) in May, and PAK gave
their European début in August at Festival Fruits De Mhere (Mhere, France). In
March 2002 PAK toured in Germany, The Netherlands and France. PAK performed at
FESTIVAL FRESNES EN WATT - Fresnes en Woevre, France in September followed by a
tour of Luxembourg and France. Immediately after completion of the PAK concerts,
Ron did a solo tour of Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, with duets with Michel
Oury, Claudio Parodi, Hops Barnemann. Two work shops were given during the solo
tour in Brest, France and Universite de Metz, France. Solo tour highlights
were at Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France and a surprise concert with
RonRuins in Italy.
The first CD of PAK - 100 percent Human Hair was release February of 2003 co-produced with Elliott Sharp. THE INFUSION has been invited to the FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE MUSIQUE ACTUELLE DE VICTORIAVILLE, Quebec, Canada in May. In September Ron participated in the HIGH ZERO FESTIVAL in Baltimore, MD.
2004 brought Ron's second appearance at Festival Fruit Mhere, Brassy, France with a performance with the Infusion and participation in an large improvising band surrounded by the fireworks of Patrick Auzier.
The release of Motel the second PAK CD in 2005 was meet with critical acclaim, and followed by a 21 concert tour of Europe. In November PAK performed in THE FUTURE FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ROCK in New York City with the following bands - Doctor Nerve, Friendly Bears, Z's, Trio Convulsant, Snuggle/Stencil.
April 2006, the concert of the Molecules in San
Francisco at the Hemlock was fun and successful, few days later Ron was on a plane bound for Tokyo for
a RonRuins tour of Japan with Jesse Krakow the bass player PAK as the third
member of the Trio. Back in States Ron tour and did some recording with French
Double bassist David Chiesa.
2007 The Molecules released a new CD/DVD called Friends and tour the west coast
including a concert at the Push International Performing Arts Festival in
Vancouver, Canada. May brought an European tour with appearances at Festival
Terra Terma and Musique Action Festival in France. In November the
Molecules will tour again in Europe around the Music Unlimited Festival in Wels
Austria.
Ron Anderson currently resides in Brooklyn, working on the third PAK CD, the Molecules new CD/DVD called Friends (release date January 1st 2007), RonRuins DVD, CD with David Chiesa and studying and playing tournament chess.
Ron has performed and/or recorded with - FRED LONBERG-HOLM, JAMES CHANCE, JOHN MEYERS, MARK RIBOT, ELLIOTT SHARP,YASUKO ONUKI, MICHEAL EVANS, THE SUN CITY GIRLS, SHELLY HIRSCH, THE POOL, OTOMO YOSHIHIDE, CAROLINE KRABBLE, GINO ROBAIR, SEIICHI YAMAMOTO, JACK WRIGHT, JOHN ZORN, 99 HOOKER, MYLES BOISEN, MIC GENDREAU, DONALD MILLER, HOPPY KAMIYAMA, DANIEL CARTER, HACO, TERRIE EX
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