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"Nux Vomica - Systematic Redux"

Hypnotic. Cold depth. Implied audio violence lying dormant. Overloaded heavy frequencies. The material herein contained could easily have replaced the soundtrack to the film Blade Runner, and would have been much more effective than the existing soundtrack. Systematic Redux is quickly becoming a favorite in my collection. The pieces of work are quietly melodic this time around, many pipes being beaten in the distance, alot of sounds are very unique here. Many of them are sounds I've never encountered before. It provided for a very enjoyable listen. Don't pass this up.

JG - Antocularis Magazine #2 - Antocularis Magazine #2


"Nxu Vomica - Spindal Alpha"

Spindal Alpha is primarily a collection of low frequency atmospheric layered sound distortions with a lot of metal being beaten mercilessly in the distance. Fascinating to listen to. It has an ominous , somber feeling to it. There is order to the noise, carefully planned orchestration of found object used as percussion elements which held it together. I suppose this is one of the things about Spindal Alpha that I found appealing. As you listen, you might imagine yourself as a worker in a metal salvage yard on a cold, overcast day, or inside a steel mill, slaving over machinery with no relief in sight from the hard labor. At times the low frquency pulses become almost hypnotic. If you are fond of the Hafler Trio, this cassette from Nux Vomica would be an excellent addition to your collection.

JG - Antocularis Magazine - Antocularis Magazine


"Nux Vomica - Augur"

It's spelled "augur", as in "omen" or "prophet", but it could just as well have been "auger", as in "auger bit", because this stuff could have been recorded live at some nightmare assembly line job where severed heads come rolling down the conveyor belt instead of Nintendo circuit boards. Howling, whinng, clanging, rhythmic noise, stolen from techno-horror reality and rearranged into a persuasive expression of outrage. A killer soundtrack for Ken Kesey's Cuckoo's Nest dreamscapes of The Combine. I imagine this being played on mall muzak systems and I am at peace. - Factsheet Five


Discography

The following is as close to a complete discography as we have managed to pull together. Unfortunately we know it is not 100% complete but we are always discovering and searching to make it as such. If you know of anything we have missed please let us know.

compilations:
Auricular Records (USA)

Auricular Monthly Audio Magazine #1
Adrenicortico 12 - with Chemical Toybox

Auricular Monthly Audio Magazine #4
The Cats Have Come to Tea

Auricular Monthly Audio Magazine #10
Midnight in the Sprawl

RRRecords (USA)

RRR-500 Various 500 Lock-Grooves by 500 Artists
Lock-Groove #414

Waste Inc. (USA)

Kakophonia #2 A Post Music Compilation
Hitzig's Kitchen Table

Sound of Pig Music (USA)

Northern California is a Noisy Place Indeed #3
The Effects of a Bladder

Plutonium Press (USA)

Scrape #2
Contaminated with Pathos

Archaic Nightmare (USA)

Archaic Nightmare Volume II
Not Peity

Pointless Music (USA)

Electricity Compilation
Ice Nine

127 House (USA)

International Benefit for Prisoners Legal News
The Forge

Charnel House (USA)

Wakened by Silence
Monism Part I

Korm Plastics (Netherlands)

Anti White Bastards
The Girth Of Mediocrity

Personal Soundtracks (UK)

Cassettemusictwo
Passing a Stone

Compulsory Overtime (USA)

Compulsory Overtime #5
Kumico's Theme & - A Live Process (w/Freeland)

Infected Productions (USA)

Cybernetik Renassiance Compilation - No Field Release

Biotope Arts Organization (Italy)

Devastating Templaric Sounds #2
Eruption in Form

Borft (Sweden)

Unlucky for Them
Kuhreihen

Povertech Industries (USA)

Accidents Have No Holidays
Palingenesis

Psi Sex Magazine (USA)

Psi Sex Magazine #4
Word Salad Speech

Spilling Audio (USA)

Repercussion #3
Collapsing Schemes I

full-length releases
Auricular Records (USA)

Nux Vomica - Augur
Nux Vomica - Spindal Alpha
Nux Vomica - Systematic Redux
Nux Vomica - Mercurial Rite
Nux Vomica - Epiphany
Nux Vomica - Bythos
Nux Vomica - Casting a Dream to the Sea
Nux Vomica - The Tree of Alchemy
Nux Vomica - 47th Proposition
Nux Vomica - Metasomatism
Nux Vomica/Freeland - Burning Starscapes
Nux Vomica - By Ethers Touch Made Fire
Nux Vomica - The Chemists Dream
Nux Vomica - The Crowning of Nature
Nux Vomica - Sublunar: Live at Orbis Nex 06-16-07
Nux Vomica - Coniunctio Oppositorum: Live at Orbis Nex 09-08-07

Borft (Sweden)
Nux Vomica - Casting a Dream to the Sea

Biotope Arts Organization
Nux Vomica - Bythos

UBU-IBI
Nux Vomica and Big City Orchestre - Tryst 6 - includes on side each of each artist

Host-age Productions
The Words and and Music of Nux Vomica
special products

Nux Vomica - Soundtrack to the Yule Log Channel 1990
extremely limited edition in hand made box, given as gifts

Nux Vomica - Solstice 1991
extremely limited edition in hand made box, given as gifts

Nux Vomica - Tree of Alchemy
extremely limited version of this release in handmade package, signed and numbered

Nux Vomica - For Every Cure There is an Ailment
3 cassette set containing first two releases and one cassette of unreleased material with oringinal computer graphics art enclosed in vinyl box, given as gift

Nux Vomica - By Ethers Touch Made Fire
limited version of this release in silk screened cloth package, numbered

Nux Vomica - The Chemists Dream
limited version of this release in silkscreened cloth package, numbered

film soundtracks an visual works:
Eyesore: A Film by Leah Grossman

Ice Nine: A Film by Francois Miron

Desire: A Film by T2 Productions (appear as NU99.9X)

Conditoning II: A Film by Alan Herrick

Beauty and Ash: A Film by Alan Herrick

Dreaming After a Fashion: A Film by Alan Herrick

Answers to Odd Numbered Problems: A Film by Alan Herrick

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Bio

Nux Vomica members include but are not limited to: Alan Herrick, Jenny Liang Herrick, Evan Sornstein

Nux Vomica has involved themselves in the recording of at least 15 releases within the US and three available on labels within Italy and Sweden and the U.K. Their pieces have appeared on over 30 experimental music compilations. They have contributed to sound tracks of films and have produced several experimental films themselves as part of their multi media performances. These performances usually include the utilization of sound and vision for the purpose of allowing the audience to drift beyond the performance space to become more involved mentally with the performance. The current performance includes dual slide projection as well as full screen video projection designed by the members of Nux Vomica. It is a dreamscape painted before the eyes of the audience with both light and sound.

In 2008, Nux Vomica is beginning it's 18th year of sound art production as a team, in the Bay Area.

The members of Nux Vomica have been long active members in the experimental music community within San Franciso and beyond. Their body of work has included involvement in and collaborations with Big City Orchestre, Haters, Freeland, Voice of Eye, and Sense/Net, Concerto Infernal (A Bay Area experimental music collective). The members also have involved themselves in musical projects outside of Nux Vomica which include Curium, Battery, St. John the Baptist, Nu33.3X, Ultrasound and several more.

In the past Alan Herrick and Jenny Liang Herrick established and maintained Auricular Records (1989). Auricular Records was a small independent music label dedicated to preservation and support, as well as distribution, of the works of world wide experimental music artists. The most notable of the Auricular Records projects would be the Auricular Audio Magazine compilations. Its 12 present volumes contain and chronicle musical pieces and the projects of experimental artists worldwide. They have been responsible for several experimental music series and soundart festivals within the Bay Area over the years.

Alan Herrick is the designer of the body of the visual presentation included within a Nux Vomica performance. These visuals include slide projection of computer generated graphics as well as manipulated imagery and original video works. His history within the Bay Area experimental music community includes performing and recording with groups such as Santa Cruz's Big City Orchestre, Sense-Net, Concerto Infernal, Haters, Ultrasound, NU33.3X amongst several others.

Jenny Liang Herrick is the curator and manipulator of found sounds as well as the primary rhythmatist. It is her delicate blending of "dry" sounds with the synthesis and soundscapes created by the other members that offers a unique and unworldy quality to the pieces.

Evan Sorenstein began working with electronics in the band Q.E.D. in 1983, a duo with vocalist Christopher Evans. Evan continued to work on solo projects with film, and in 1985 began Stuff Bones Are Made Of with vocalist Katie McGee, and completed a 12 song album. In 1986, while attending Bennington College as an Electronic Music Major, he began scoring pieces for choreographer Eleanor Lynn and began collaborating with Shawn Brice in several performance art pieces involving music, dance, slides, film and video, and performed soundtracks for non-existing films. He continued to present solo work of several sound and video installations as well as a large scale suite for radio entitled "Wireless". He currently has 7 cassette releases on the dynamophone label. Evan is the founder of Curium design, a graphics design company as well as vehicle for music and soundart production and besides Nux Vomica is also presently involved in running the Dynamophone label and recording in several sound projects.