Archived from the MIA Ringsteppers Home Page: Have you ever played the "Telephone Game"? In a game of "Telephone" one child whispers a message to the child sitting next to her, who in turn whispers the message to the child sitting next to him, who in turn whispers the message to yet a fourth child, and so on until the message has been whispered to the last child in the queue. By the time the message reaches its destination, the final child, it has generally undergone significant change. Imagine, now, that the message in "Telephone" is conveyed via music rather than speech. Like speech, a tune would be passed to the next musician in line, listened to and re-composed, and so on. When played for the last time, the music would have changed as drastically as the message in the childrens' game. In addition, if you have the means to capture each re-play of the song, you not only have the difference between the original song and the last, but all of the versions in between. Band Members Ed Chang - samplers, analog multi-track recorder ED CHANG is a composer and improviser based in NYC who regularly performs at the Knitting Factory and has performed/recorded with Davey Williams (Curlew), Christine Bard (God is My Co-pilot), David Nuss (No Neck Blues Band), Cibo Matto, Adris Hoyos (Harry Pussy) and the Gold Sparkle Band and has performed in a John Zorn COBRA performance at the Knitting Factory featuring a voice and electronics theme. He has also toured the US five times, once solo, twice with DUAL (duo project with guitarist Doug Theriault from Seattle, WA) and thrice with Spin-17. His other releases include "Picture Show" on J'Boy Records, "DUAL:Dual" on Quodlibet, "Extracted Celluloid" on Seeland and " Looper's Delight Vol 2" on Marathon. John Dieterich - digital multi-track recorder, samplers JOHN DIETERICH plays guitar, samplers, hard disks, and other things. He currently plays in Deerhoof, a San Francisco-based rock band (with CD's and 7"'s out on Kill Rock Stars, Menlo Park, etc.), and continues to play with the Minneapolis-based free/rock band Gorge Trio, which has been together for about 5 years. Gorge Trio recently released their second CD, "For Loss Of," a collaboration with Minneapolis improvisor Milo Fine, on Free Land Records (Italy). The members of Gorge Trio also comprised three-fourths of the now-defunct Colossamite, who released several CD's and CD-singles on Skin Graft Records and recently appeared on the soundtrack for the Italian horror-drama, "La Foresta Della Morte," released by Toyo Records. John is currently studying electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, California. David Forlano - samplers, digital multi-track recorder DAVID FORLANO is a versatile multimedia artist/composer with a range of skills in acoustic and electronic music. His study of guitar with Robert Fripp (1990-92) instilled a fascination with polyrythmns that, in turn, brought him to study the Indian tabla. Since 1991, he has been composing, recording, and playing live music for theater, film, performance art and dance. David's interdisciplinary performance works include "Footprint/ Songline," "Paper, Light, Sound" and "Late October." Sean O'Donnell - broken CDs, samplers, reel-to-reel tape SEAN O'DONNELL is a multimedia designer focusing on computer- and electronics-based forms of expression. Since 1996, his recording projects have included "Creature Comforts" and "Outplace" with David Forlano, as well numerous sessions and performances with the Philadelphia improvisation troupe, IMP!. In addition, Sean is featured on two tracks from Gorge Trio's "Dead Chicken Fear No Knife." He is currently collaborating with Web designer Gregg Carroll to develop Outplace, an online studio space for multimedia artists.