OPERA ARTISTS

"Joy Von Spain combines avant-garde (de)compositional knowledge with noise...provocation, resulting in intriguing, often unsettling music that sounds like a dream/nightmare collaboration between Karlheinz Stockhausen and Coil, or Iannis Xenakis and Lustmord..." - Dave Segal, SLOG, The Stranger's blog 12-22-08 , , Roland Juno 60, Korg Poly-800, Yamaha CS-5, the Backwards Records NW Korg 770, and an Alesis Micron Synthesizer, performs vocals, sequencing, piano, percussion, guitar and tapes alone and in collaboration. As vocalist she spans the divide between operatic and harsh. As an instrumentalist and composer, her experiments range from Classical and Avant-Garde music to power electronics, electro to ambient sound.