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When he was a junior, Clayton started an audiovisual collective named Toneburst with like-minded friends from Harvard and the Massachusetts College of Art. Though it has since fallen into abeyance, Toneburst set a precedent for leftfield electronics in Boston’s house and techno-centric club scene. The group hosted DJ and live performances that culminated in a self-produced disc of excursions into hip-hop, jungle...
...while the assault lasted, it was brutal and sublime. Leading the offensive were/rupture and esp of the local Toneburst Collective. Hunched over a table laden eight turntables, mixers, speakers, samplers and a laptop, all connected by a web of cables, /rupture and esp spliced together sounds of futuristic urban warfare. They started the set with an ambient, downtempo groove purring with thick, deep bass. But the second floor of the Advocate House, the Sanctum, began swarming with people, the tempo and intensity of the beats increased, until the room was shuddering to the manic cadence and dive-bomb bass...
...DJs/producers/rupture and esp are not new to Harvard. Jace Clayton (/rupture) and Mike Esposito (esp) started the Toneburst Collective while they were undergraduates here. The loose-knit collective spans multiple genres and media, uniting jungle, ambient and hiphop DJs and producers like DJ Flack, Embryo and Electro Organic Sound System with video-and installation-artists like Synergy Promixions. They organize numerous events in the New England area which are more like carnivals than raves or concerts, combining abstract beats, video experimentation and performance art in unorthodox spaces. A production last year, Junk, was staged in a church and featured junglists...
...while the assault lasted, it was brutal and sublime. Leading the offensive were /rupture and esp of the local Toneburst Collective. Hunched over a table laden with turntables, mixers, speakers, samplers and a laptop, all connected by a web of cables, /rupture and esp spliced together sounds of futuristic urban warfare. They started the set with an ambient, downtempo groove purring with thick, deep bass. But as the second floor of the Advocate House, the Sanctum, began swarming with people, the tempo and intensity of the beats increased, until the room was shuddering to the manic cadence and dive-bomb...
...DJs/producers /rupture and esp are not new to Harvard. Jace Clayton (/rupture) and Mike Esposito (esp) started the Toneburst Collective while they were undergraduates here. The loose-knit collective spans multiple genres and media, uniting jungle, ambient, and hip-hop DJs and producers like DJ Flack, Embryo and Electro Organic Sound System with video- and installation-artists like Synergy Promixions. They organize numerous events in the New England area which are more like carnivals than raves or concerts, combining abstract beats, video experimentation and performance art in unorthodox spaces. A production last year, Junk, was staged in a church...