Antibody
Antibody (featuring Ed Wilson, J-mz Robinson & Charles Horn) was a short-lived project which endured from latter 2001 until Ed's departure overseas in mid 2003. Bearing some resemblance to the dada-esque noodlings of early TMA-1 or Strap Ons, Antibody might be characterised as playfully, but determinedly anti-art.
Electro-acoustic improvisation was central to the project. This was a natural extension of the music Ed & J-mz had completed solo on recent albums such as Fragmentation KRK104 or Popster KRK119. For his part, Charles had welded malfunctioning electronics & exotic acoustic instruments on his 2000 KYN solo project release: Intermittent Non-Being Of Max Schreck. This album featured contributions by the CM Ensemble's majordomo Nick Hodgson; Charles had collaborated in a number of CM Ensemble recordings & performances prior to 2002.
Antibody was, initially, Ed's idea - a group project with which to extend his solo investigations of intuition & automatism in music. However J-mz & Charles soon transformed the band into something more genuinely collaborative. The very title of the project suggested a complex of negatives by which its products might be defined: not-bodies, not-minds, not-melody, not-music, not-art. However, like kRkRkRk pioneers TMA-1, Antibody clothed its more subversive aspects in a guise of unpretentious free-play. Perhaps it was this refreshing lack of premeditation which allowed them to serve as an effective inoculation against the more self-important manifestations of "high-art" in music.
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Text by David
Khan. Web-building by Ed Wilson. No apologies for disinformation.
August 2004