JMoNoisey

Jamie Howton

Asheville, NC

I was born in the North of England. I lived there and India before moving to Chicago at 16. I briefly played violin, had a piano in the house and I was in the school choir until I was 13. I didn't make music for the next 25 years. My kids are what got me started again, my daughter brought an upright bass home from school and the three of us including my son took guitar/bass lessons together every week for years. All of my current music is performed live on a mixture of analog and digital electronic hardware and is recorded in one take, I don't use computers to perform, I don't really ever have much of a plan beyond loading samples into a sampler, patching my modular synth or building a drum-machine kit. I don't sequence much of anything ahead of time, everything that happens after I start performing is improvised. I make all of my music for myself, it's the sound of the pain leaving my body. It's the story of my life. I am grateful.