Francium
Chandler, AZ

Biography
Chris Harbster started his career under the name Phenylethylamine and has since adopted the new Francium moniker. His purpose is embedded within a style of music that mutates, piece by infinitesimal piece. Musically, he has formally studied the violin now for nine years; and as an autodidactic, has studied composition for ten years. He does this while jumping back and forth between playing a multiplicity of instruments and composing electroacoustically. In his electronica, he takes apart the minimalists Ryoji Ikeda’s and Mikael Stavostrand’s conceptions of sound glitches, adds a harmony alternating between terse and passive, and serves to jerk the dance out of your body–totally by accident. His sound is a shrine of the ingenious and immortal electronic artists.

His Explain EP, a forthcoming RaceCarProductions, release is a demonstration of his experimental harmonies and his fast-driving bpm of pulsating and ancient call-and-response percussion studies. It was composed between February and June of 2005, using mostly a cut and paste technique with thousands of samples, along with a small amount of programming, and his distinctive surges of distortion, which listeners have dubbed as "warming." Currently, he is no longer producing any recorded works on his home studio. Instead, he is learning the language of MAX/MSP, programming frantically to create a live set that combines the anti-theory of circuit bending, his M-Audio Ozonic MIDI sound device, an audio interface, the artificial intelligence of evolutionary algorithms, and the serenity of experimentation.

Links
Francium on Myspace [ www.myspace.com/franciumusik ]