Radio Frequencies
November 5, 2005Ryan Francesconi is everything at once. Part musician, part
programmer, part photo artist, film artist, Balkan music lover and
maybe human (I don’t know). But what he creates on his own as
Radio Frequencies (RF) or alongside of other artists in groups such as
Life on Earth and The Toids is a repertoire (did I just use that word?)
of muscial abstractions ranging from electronica to folk. At
first listen I’m certainly reminded of artists such as Tortoise,
Nobukazu Takemura, Mouse on Mars and Stereolab, but RF doesn’t concern
himself with structure or repetiton, he creates sound scapes for a
digital aquatic age <I’m transported back to the fish tank of my
youth, swimming with my pet Oscar (a species of fish), grooving to the
sound of the air pump, floating on bubbles like the choppy dude on my
Commodore 64 version of Jungle Hunt>. I’m not talking dance music
folks. I’m talking sensory bliss.
Catch him live with Life on Earth Friday November 11th at the always packed and acoustically firm Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco.
