Korm Plastics kp 3013 • releasedate: November 1st 2003 • CD only | cover

Brombron 06 by Steve Roden and Jason Kahn will be the first Brombron release on Korm Plastics - the previous five were released by Staalplaat (and are unavailable from Korm Plastics). But after leaving Staalplaat, Brombron co-curator Frans de Waard continued releasing CDs and now the Brombron releases will be realized by his Korm Plastics imprint.
In the year 2000 Frans de Waard and Extrapool started the Brombron project. Two or more musicians become artists in residence in Extrapool, an arts initiative in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, with a fully equipped sound recording studio. These artists can work in a certain amount of time on a collaborative project; a project they always wished to do, but didn't have the time or the equipment to realize.
In September 2002, Jason Kahn and Steve Roden joined forces in the Extrapool studios. Steve Roden played small acoustic objects, electric guitar, contact microphones and guitar pedals whereas Jason Kahn played minimal percussion, laptop and analogue synthesizer. Their focus on sound is a central factor in this work. Six beautiful pieces of microscopic, precise music - like watching through the looking glass at the smallest particles available.
Jason Kahn was born in New York, grew up in Los Angeles, moved to Berlin in 1990. He now lives in Zürich. His audio work is a mix of electronic and acoustic sound sources, produced with minimal percussion, laptop or analogue synthesizer. In recent years he has also created several sound installations, using field recordings and sound waves as concrete forms. He started the label «cut» in 1998.
Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from los angeles. His sound works involve the electronically transformed sounds of acoustic objects, instruments, and field recordings. since 1993 he has released many recordings under his own name as well as 'in be tween noise' on various labels including his own 'new plastic music'.

Steve Roden: http://www.inbetweennoise.com
Jason Kahn: http://cut.fm and http://jasonkahn.dfekt.org