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- About Me:
- Hi! I record under the name Interstitial. I mainly play piano, electronics, bass, and trumpet.
Here's the longer annoying written in the 3rd person as is pretentiously required bio...
Bio: John Koch-Northrup [ relaxed machinery | interstitial ]
John Koch-Northrup has been playing and writing music since the age of five when his grandma began teaching him to play piano. He quickly found he enjoyed making noises with the piano that weren't necessarily written on the page. While these early sessions were highly annoying to anyone within earshot - the rhythms and textures eventually began to evolve into music pleasing to young John's ears - and many years later pleasing to other people's ears. He learned to play classical and also began to explore jazz.
Thoughout school he was a certified band geek: playing trumpet in jazz band, student band director, playing trumpet and piano in state band contests (even writing piano solos for the contests). He also found a love of synths and electronics and joined his first band playing regularly in area bars and clubs at the age of 15. Playing in a band elevated his geeky status slightly, but not tremendously much. After high school he switched to playing bass in live bands. Throughout it all, John began to record songs on borrowed 4-track cassette recorders and drum machines. The music quickly began to evolve from synth-pop to longer form instrumental pieces that hinted towards ambient and industrial sounds.
By 22 he was burnt out on music and put all the instruments away except his piano. His mom passed away, he got a "real" full time job, and he married the love of his life that same year. Nearly four years later he pulled out the gear and played in a band again. It was a musically rewarding experience, but frustrating at many levels and the band imploded within 18 months.
At that point - his long time friend Vir Unis' ambient music career began to take off. This was a great inspiration and it got John to take the leap and start recording his solo material again. Focusing on ambient and minimal techno material, he put together his first demo which eventually was released on the Red Antenna label in 2001. Also in 2001, Vir Unis asked John play live with him at the 2001 Space For Music festival in Milwaukee, WI. This was later released as "Live at the Miramar" on AtmoWorks.
Since then John has released several other projects as Interstitial including a group remix project on The Foundry label with Vidna Obmana, Vir Unis, Saul Stokes, and M. Bentley remixing John's "sub.terra" track which was recorded solely using trumpet and processing. John has recently been taking a few years off from recording.
Discography:
- Interstitial - Temporal Arc (2001 Red Antenna)
- Vir Unis / Interstitial - Live at the Miramar (2002 AtmoWorks)
- Interstitial / Vidna Obmana / Vir Unis / Saul Stokes / M Bentley - sub.terra (2003 The Foundry)
- Various Artists - The New Electric Policy (2001 Red Antenna)
- Vir Unis / Saul Stokes - Thermal Transfer (2002 Hypnos/Binary)
- Various Artists - Portraits (2002 Atmoworks)
- Various Artists - Red Antenna Assembled (2002 Red Antenna)
- Various Artists - Lappland (2004 Saasfee*)
- Jonathan Hughes & Guests - Fluidities (2004 The Foundry)
- Website:
- http://www.johei.com
- Best album(s) of all time?
- Modern English - After The Snow
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage / Empyrean Isles / Headhunters
Depeche Mode - most of the 80's...
Saul Stokes - Zo Pilots
Vidna Obmana - Surreal Sanctuary
Cabaret Voltaire - The Conversation / Microphonies / The Crackdown
Pan Sonic - Aaltopiiri (specifically for the 2nd track!)
Monolake - Hongkong
Plastikman - Consumed / Artifakts B.C.
Supergrass - In It for the Money / Supergrass
Miles Davis - most
...it's a lengthy list
- Favorite artist(s)?
- herbie hancock, basic channel / chain reaction, vidna obmana, cabaret voltaire, beatles, depeche mode, 80's synthpop and industrial, 90's britpop, cecil taylor, steve roach, underworld, japan, david sylvian, autechre, speedy j, and friends.
- Are you a musician? What instrument do you play? Type of music?
- Piano since I was 5... thanks grandma!
Synths, electronics, trumpet, and bass.
Mainly electronic - ambient / techno.
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Interstitial - Temporal Arc :: Review by Rik MacLean at Ping Things
Posted on July 6, 2009 at 7:30am —
Interstitial - Temporal Arc - Reviews from Original Release
Posted on June 24, 2009 at 8:00pm —
My "new" album + I'm leaving AtmoWorks
Posted on June 24, 2009 at 8:00am — 16 Comments
Upcoming albums on AtmoWorks
Posted on May 29, 2009 at 7:30am —
Quick Note... AtmoWorks Update
Posted on May 25, 2009 at 11:00am —
AtmoWorks Update - March 31, 2009
Posted on March 31, 2009 at 11:08am —
iMac?
Posted on March 29, 2009 at 1:56pm — 3 Comments
AtmoWorks Sales Totals - Dec 08 through Feb 09
Posted on March 26, 2009 at 8:34am — 2 Comments
Another recent interview with Matt/MjDawn/.5 of miKroNaught
Posted on March 19, 2009 at 3:15pm —
Interview with AW co-owner Matt McDonough (MjDawn, miKroNaught, Mudvayne)
Posted on March 19, 2009 at 3:00pm —
Comment Wall (143 comments)
- At 3:54pm on November 16, 2009,
zerofish9 said… - Hey my man..how is all the machinery these days?!~ Wondering if you were@ myspace/? I finally hooked into that old gig: uuuurL->myspace/zerofish9 of course. Pop in2 ambio.ning when u get a chance=new design/colors/happenings and more happenings to come! :)
- At 5:10pm on October 15, 2009,
Brian McGuire said…
- right on the dear is the best. are you on soundcloud.com? good place to find and send tracks as well. keep the beats in your dreams! peace brian
www.lefthouserecordings.com
- At 12:26pm on September 13, 2009,
Tamar Shoshana said… - Hello, sir!! :)
How are you these days?? Well, I hope!!
I havent talked to you in such a long time!
We need to catch up sometime! :)
- At 5:54pm on September 12, 2009,
Ñæ‡ÐØg said… - Hey John! Maybe you could help me figure this out. I purchased an album from the Atmoworks store 2 days ago, and I still haven't received a download link. The album that I bought before that was sent as a download link by e-mail. Are they now just sending physical albums by mail? I tried to send an e-mail to sales@atmoworks.com, but it was unsendable according to Yahoo! Please help me figure this out.
- At 9:03pm on September 11, 2009,
pixyblink said… - i just now saw yr pic comment from back in may. tanku ^_^
- At 2:19am on September 8, 2009,
wordless poem said… - would you,in order to stimulate activity on your site,like to link up with the new music composing and performing online internet resource...
www.newageopenmusic.ning.com
come and hear the first fruits of online collaboration,primavera by lena selyanina and wordless poem,hear how the new music is being formed
- At 1:02am on August 10, 2009,
Greg D Simpson said… - I heard your music some years ago and just re-discovered your music again, on line. Beautiful stuff, Thanks!
- At 9:01pm on August 9, 2009,
Chris Russell said… - Happy Birthday, John!!
- At 8:48am on August 9, 2009,
Igneous Flame said… - Happy Birthday, John !
- At 8:04am on August 9, 2009,
Tamar Shoshana said…
- Hey John!! :)
Hope you have a fantastic birthday!! Are you & Heidi doing anything special??
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