Links

Partners in musical crime and other great artists:

The Norman Conquest
Engineer and production genius. Responsible for all recordings I’ve done.

Marielle Jakobsons
Psych-y, beautiful weavings of melody and drone for strings.

Agnes Szelag
Chameleon sound artist with an ear for the weird.

Wah Wah Exit Wound
Ecstatic prog musings delivered with bar band immediacy. From Seattle, WA.

Wiener Kids
Meticulous and eccentric compositions from brilliant Bay Area drummer, Jordan Glenn.

Shayna Dunkelman
Polymath percussionist who can play ANYTHING from Stockhausen to Kate Bush.

Things I like and support:

Wonder Cat Rescue
Animal rescue non-profit. Adopt a pet today!

Crooks and Liars
Slightly skewed, yet utterly entertaining politics blog.

Metal Sucks
Completely skewed and usually hilarious metal blog.

Aquarius Records
The best record store in the world out of San Francisco, CA.

Alee Karim

(b. 1980) is a composer and guitarist living in San Francisco, CA. My work is aural cinema, in that I arrange sonic textures & motifs like scenes in a film. In my work, harsh dissonance gives way to gentle themes; alien juxtapositions veil sentimental tropes in order to trace the dense emotional architecture of the modern psyche. Growing up in Los Angeles amidst speed metal and Top-40 radio, my constellation of influence expanded to include composers Gyorgy Ligeti and Trey Spruance, director David Lynch, and author Philip K. Dick. In 2007, I received an MFA in Music from Mills College. My collaborators include composer/engineer The Norman Conquest, electro-acoustic chamber pop duo Myrmyr, and percussionist Shayna Dunkelman. I perform solo and with my band, The Atomic Bomb Audition.

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