Synnack

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Synnack fuses elements of ambient, noise, and IDM ("Intelligent Dance Music") musical styles with new media performance mediums. Musically, Synnack has been compared to a combination of the Dada/Futurist audio experimentation and chance methodologies implored by John Cage in the early 20th century, and the edge and melodic components of more contemporary audio artists such as Coil, Merzbow, and Autechre. Live, Synnack aims to combine their music with elements of contemporary video installation art to produce a live experience more akin to an 'environmental happening' than merely observing an artist augment what was already documented in audio CD or MP3 format.

Originally, the Synnack project was launched as an online music collaboration community with the goal of applying open source software development processes to music creation; providing a place for people to exchange music that they compose; download and remix each other's music, and 'release' them at no charge. A dynamic exchange of creativity and expression. Anyone would be allowed to post their music, with the only requirement, that they also post the source material used in its creation. (samples, sequences, etc...). Founding Synnack members Clint M. Sand and Jeff Ito have since taken their musical ideas out of the context of this initial project and formalized them into a cohesive body of work.

Clint (already known in industrial music circles for his work in cut.rate.box, Mono Chrome and remixer of many of that scene's most popular acts) and Jeff collaborate on all aspects of audio and video experimentation, programming, arrangement, and instrumentation.

Synnack's Mirror Like Sea' was recently featured on Dark Winter's 'Full Cold Moon' compilation which commemorates the music of Coil. Their debut release 'v1' was released at midnight, New Years Day, 2006 as a free internet download and is available on the bands official web site at synnack.com. v1 is a compilation of 5 tracks created throughout 2004 and 2005 and represents the sound of the early development of synnack.

Recently, synnack v1.5 was released as a free internet download on synnack.com. v1.5 is a 20 minute ambient noise work created using a number of techniques. Some of the source material used was created by rendering graphical images as sound, live instrumentation, programming, and random sequence generation using an application called ‘sounder’ to send MIDI data to a range of virtual samplers and synths

synnackv2 is in the works and will be delivered as a full-length CD/Internet release of newer and more beat driven innovations.