Dewey Decimal is the collaborative performance duo between myself and friend Gordon Tebo. The sound is a mixture of dubbed out riffs and rhythms, dipped in crackling Foley. In 2005, we started playing some shows and developing a sound, using new performance tools created by Ableton. Live electronic music with computers was becoming a more and more heated topic.
New City referred to our name as the ‘nerdiest electronica’ name ever. Though now separated geographically, with that kind of press it’s hard to imagine the group ever really dying. I’d like to think that Dewey Decimal is cryogenically frozen in a bunker in Texas, waiting for the right time to thaw itself.
Through performances in clubs, corporate retail, internet radio, and one rumored headphone practice in a coffee shop, a few artifacts remain:
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