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Fat Worm of Error is an Experimental/Noise/conceptual art avant garde rock band from Northampton, Massachusetts.[1] They are seen as staples of the underground noise and improvisation scene and helped to start what is known as a regional form of noise music called Western Mass Noise. They have been associated with the New Weird America genre. They utilize traditional rock instruments as well as homemade electronics and other modified instruments. In their live performances, the singer engages in homemade pageantry with homemade surrealist costumes. The band has toured Europe and North America.
History
The band is comprised of Jess Goddard (vocals), Tim Sheldon (guitar), Chris Cooper (guitar), Donny Shaw (bass), Neil Young (drums). They formed in 2002 in Western Massachusetts.
Members have been in various bands and solo projects. Members Chris Cooper and Jess Goddard are former members of the band Deerhoof, and pioneering conceptual noise rock band Caroliner. Solo projects include Schurt Kwitters, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Offal, Bomb Treb, and Eric Crapton. Other projects include The BSC with Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley, Howard Stelzer, James Coleman, Liz Tonne, Mike Bullock, Vic Rawlings; and the Goonies, a seminal Central Massachusetts punk/hardcore/ska band of the mid-1990's.
In 2009, Fat Worm of Error was in residency in Rotterdam, Netherlands at the independent record label and art collective, De Player, where they produced an opera called Poor Sap. The entire set for the opera was handmade by the members during their residency. During their residency, they also produced 50 handmade 8" records of a recording of the opera as a part of the De Player 8" series.[2]In 2010, at the request of Northwestern University, Fat Worm of Error created a soundtrack to 17 Arthur Ganson Machines. The soundtrack was self-released in the later part of 2010. They were named #90 of Tiny Mix Tape's list of top 100 bands of 2000-2009. [3]
They have toured the U.S. consistently and have toured in Western Europe twice.
Music
Fat Worm of Error has been compared to the dada art movement and invariably fit into the noise rock and free jazz genres. They often employ a constrained composing technique in the tradition of the Oulipo writers for many of their songs. Their songs often have various discernable patterns for one or a few instruments layered over patterns prescribed to the other remaining instruments. Their music is deconstructionist and orchestrated destructionist, and often examine the restrictions and prescriptions of traditional music theories, like time signatures and harmony. Their version of noisy rock employs tightly controlled, distorted, and modified electronic reverberations and free jazz techniques of instrumental modifications. For example, their bass employs just two strings. The effect often sounds improvisational, and it is to an extent unknown to anyone but the 5 of them.
They have released split records with Deerhoof and appear on compilations mastered by Hans Grusel with Sun City Girls, Caroliner, Nautical Almanac, Metalux, Wolf Eyes, Mono Pause, Hans Grüsel's Krankenkabinet, Tarantism, Tom Recchion, Sixes, Bran(...)Pos, Masonic Youth, Pod Blotz, Smegma, Panicsville, and others. [4]
Discography
Broods - LP (Ecstatic Peace/Open Mouth]], 2010)
Ambivalence and the Beaker - CD (Resipiscent, 2010)
Music for 17 Arthur Ganson Machines - Cassette (Self-released, 2010)
Poor Sap - Lathe, 8" (Drop Of Blood Records, 2009)
Double-headed Baby - 7" (Brazilian Wax, 2010)
Feted Corps - with Deerhoof cassette split (Deathbomb Arc, 2007)
Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies - LP (Load Records, 2006)
Numbers - 7" (Ultra Eczema, 2006)
Brickfaced - Cassette (Brazilian Wax, 2005)
String Of Artifacts - (Fish Pies, Resipiscent, Compilation V/A, 2005)
NZZNZZZZNNZNZNNNN - CD (Yeay! Cassettes, 2004)
Summer Mixtape - Cassette (Self-released, 2003)
C C - Cassette (Yeay! Cassettes, 2003)
Feelin' Fine - 7" (No label, 2003)
Grx EP - CD (No label, 2003)