SYNC PLACEMENT

Denver’s itchy-O consists of 23 professional musicians across an array of percussion, electronic and traditional world/rock/stringed instruments. This includes a driving drum-corps battery, taiko drummers, and an arsenal of sonic tools, from theremin to synthesizers, vocoders, and custom-built waveform equipments. The collective is known for their pyrotechnic and interactive audience-engaging theatrical productions, but at its foundation is a commitment to constructing dynamic atmospheric soundscapes and dynamic musical compositions that engulf and provoke audiences, regardless of venue or media.

Releases

SYPHERLOT | HALLOWMASS; DOUBLE LIVE 2020
SYPHERLOT | HALLOWMASS; DOUBLE LIVE 2020
2021

Reopen the portals of escapism and exaltation with this evidentiary double live album out on Alternative Tentacles.

SYPHERLOT : AUG 2020

Set in an expansive parking lot at Denver’s Mission Ballroom, SYPHERLOT exploded to life during a time when any/all live music had been sequestered to digital platforms. Itchy-O blew collective minds and blanketed attendees in a cloak of fire, noise, and rhythm, eviscerating old (and new) ideas of entertainment, rewriting the book on what could be achieved at a socially distanced drive-in performance.

HALLOWMASS : OCT 2020

This series of spectacle and offertory shook the now-demolished New Tech Machinery building to its foundation during this most hallowed time of year. As the group’s tradition entered its seventh year, artifacts, momentos, and representations were collected on trays from attendee vehicles and later burned in an after-ceremony to honor impermanence and the loss felt so heavily in 2020.

This album is a documented record of those moments, a snapshot of the resulting sacraments ushering in a rapturous sonic bath of transcendental unifying magic, etched now and forever in very polyvinyl chloride, and simulated digitally to download.

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SYPHERLOT | HALLOWMASS; DOUBLE LIVE 2020
SYPHERLOT | HALLOWMASS; DOUBLE LIVE 2020 2021
Mystic Spy | Psykho Dojo
Mystic Spy | Psykho Dojo
2018

With 26 musicians and well over 100 tracks on many of the songs, the self-described “savagely sophisticated” experimental orchestra has completely outdone themselves. Along with the seven tracks on the record there are seven 32 second short vignettes that all end in lock-grooves on either side of the vinyl. And as if this is not enough, they have also released, along side of the vinyl, a zine publication titled Idra & Scepter. Once you have figured out the puzzle inside this zine, you can log in to an interactive site that allows you to not only listen to the digital version of the lock-grooves but also layer, record, and download your own versions. – METTLE STUDIOS

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Mystic Spy | Psykho Dojo
Mystic Spy | Psykho Dojo 2018
From The Overflowing
From The Overflowing
2017

“From the Overflowing” is the follow-up album to the full-length debut “Burn The Navigator” which was released by Alternative Tentacles in 2014. This new release is charged with the same sonic fury of their live shows delivered by a driving drum corps battery and taiko drummers alongside Spaghetti Western guitar licks, snake-charming bass lines, and a rich arsenal of dark electronics including synthesizers, theremin, and vocoders. Itchy-O completely engulfs and immerses its audience from every angle in a pounding electric bog of music and ephemera. While these itchy-O events are legendary, this well-produced record stands on its own and is sure to be a mind-bending auditory voyage of experimental splendor. – ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES

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From The Overflowing
From The Overflowing 2017
LISTEN ON SPOTIFY

FILM & PLACEMENT

WHIRL • 2007

7:32 minutes

Screening Highlights:

October 2007 - L’Exposition Internationale du Cinema Experimental
(TIE), Montreal, Canada (hosted by Double Negative Collective)

May 2008 - VIDEOEX: International Experimental Film & Video
Festival, Zurich, Switzerland

October 2008 - Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival
Experimental Short Competition, Lausanne, Switzerland

April 2009 - Österreichische Filmmuseum TIE Retrospective,
Film Museum of Austria, Vienna, Austria

MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART • Dark Mofo festival promo videos • 2016

Video: Winter Feast
Audio: Orange Devil
Duration: 59 second video, audio for 47 seconds
WATCH HERE

Video: Festival Highlight
Audio: The Merkabah
Duration: 1:29 minute video, audio for 53 seconds
WATCH HERE

Video: Dark Park
Audio: Dance of Anunnaki
Duration: 55 second video, audio for 30 seconds
WATCH HERE

Trash Talk • 2020

Performing Rights Released To: Merrigong Theatre Company Theatre
Audio: Jaywalker, An Eagle Brought Me Honey, Orange Devil

Sypherlot: Drive-In Radio Bath • 2021

January 2021 - Documentary released on Alamo On Demand

• compel-fratorum • hyper-intentus • desumo-acoustic • artifex voluptus • celebratio professio •

• compel-fratorum • hyper-intentus • desumo-acoustic • artifex voluptus • celebratio professio •

INTERDIMENSIONAL ORCHESTRA

With a driving drum-corps battery, taiko drummers and an arsenal of electronics, the 57-member art collective’s live performances invite audience members to join into an experience of radical, transcendental musical celebration through dance. Lauded as one of today’s most unique musical performance groups, itchy-O awakens the senses, tests assumptions, and creates an opening for new experiences where identity and boundaries surrender and disband.

BESPOKE COMPOSITIONS

Itchy-O was selected to act as a centerpiece at MONA’s world renowned Dark MOFO fest in Tasmania in 2016, has played with David Byrne, and are the darlings of Austin’s prestigious film festival, Fantastic Fest, performing there three years in a row. They have opened for DEVO, Beats Antique, Melvins and have performed at The Biennial of the Americas, Tucson’s All Souls Procession Festival, Scoutmob’s Halloween bash in Atlanta, Austin’s Art Outside, Adobe’s Effective UI, along with regular coast-to-coast touring across the United States. Annual Hallowmass, Sci-Fi Masquerade, and New Year’s Eve bashes have become historic sold-out Colorado traditions.

• compel-fratorum • hyper-intentus • desumo-acoustic • artifex voluptus • celebratio professio •

• compel-fratorum • hyper-intentus • desumo-acoustic • artifex voluptus • celebratio professio •

STUDIOS

Itchy-O also works with Colorado-based recording studios Mighty Fine Productions and Evergroove Studio to track all percussion and mix/master, respectively, to provide a full-suite of production services available in a business-friendly environment.

ENGINEERS

  • Brad Smalling Audio Engineer - Evergroove Owner

  • Colin Bricker Audio Engineer - Mighty Fine Owner

  • Xandy Whitesel Audio Engineer Mighty Fine

  • Ethan Klien QSC Electronics Engineer - itchy-O Member

  • David Kessner QSC Projects Engineer - itchy-O Member

MUSICIANS

  • Scott Banning Composer, Producer, Roto-Toms, Taiko, Samples, Synths

  • Joe Hatfield Guitars, Percussion

  • Tim Petit Bass Drum

  • Sean O'Malley Quint Tenors

  • Bryan Aquino Snare

  • Rob Burleson Cymbalist

  • Hanne Schrixx Cymbalist

  • Allison Marcellus Cymbalist

  • Carlo Campagna Cymbalist

  • Matt Steitle Quint Tenor, Taiko

  • Thomas Knight Taiko

  • Sara Akayo Taiko

  • Toni Rib Taiko

  • Jackson Lynn Taiko

  • Ethan Alexander Bass Guitars

  • Russ Cochrane Guitars

  • Kirsten Vermulen Synths, Keys

  • Collin Elliot Samples, Keys

  • Aaron Spriggs Theremin

  • Brad Schumaker Oscillators, Digital Effects, Vocoder

  • Nick Gonzalez SpFX, Samplers

  • Atlas Ryan SpFX Sampler

  • David Britton Synthesizers

EQUIPMENT

  • One Custom Made O-Hira Daiko (Big Drum), including floor stand and upright stand 42" diameter head, 24" deep body

  • One Custom Made O-Hira Daiko, including custom steel stand with vertical-horizontal drum positioning

  • Ten 20"x24" Nagado-Daiko, including both floor stands and slanted stands

  • Three 18”x22” Nagado-Daiko, including floor stands

  • 20"x9" Custom Made Hira-Daiko (Flat Body Drum)

  • 18"x20" Custom Made Katsugi-Okedo, including stand

  • Two 15”x18” Katsugi-Okedo

  • 16"x9" Shime-Daiko

  • Two 14"x6" Shime-Daiko

  • 12"x22" Naga-nagado-Daiko (Extra long body drum)

  • One Rosewood Concert Dhol, straight barrel shape

  • One Professional Bhanga Dhol, rounded barrel shape

  • Uchiwa-Daiko (Fan Drum) 24cm

  • Uchiwa-Daiko (Fan Drum) 27cm

  • Uchiwa-Daiko (Fan Drum) 30cm

  • Tettou (Metal instrument - also called cannon)

  • Chappa (Hand Cymbals) 2 sizes

  • Atarigane or Chanchiki (Bell)

  • 22” wind gong

  • 20” wind gong

  • Balinese Cremation Gamelan

  • 2 Gamelan gongs, Chinese Cymbals, and various bells from SE Asia

  • Horagai (blowing conch)

  • Roto Toms 18” 16” 10” 6”

  • Quints Tenor Drums

  • Quads Tenor Drums

  • Vintage Ludwig Stainless Marching Snare 13"

  • Timbalitos (Pair)

  • Ludwig Timbalitos 12” and 10”

  • LP Timbales 14” and 13”

  • 113 Year Old Buscher Marching Pipe Bass Drum 28”

  • Six pairs Stadium Marching Cymbals 20”

  • Korg Microsampler X5

  • SP-303 Boss Sampler X2

  • 2 Moog Thereminis

  • Warp Factory; Multi-Effects Processor, X3 Vocoders

  • VE-5000 Vocoder; Vocal Effects Processor

  • M-32 Console

  • Mesa Boogie X4 10” Bass Stack (previously owned by Metallica)

  • Mesa Boogie Guitar Stack

  • Baritone Ibanez 6 String Electric Guitar

  • Schecter Stiletto Stealth 5 Bass Guitar

  • Roland SP-404A Linear Wave Sampler

  • Line 6 DL4 Delay and MM4 Ring Mod

  • Korg Minilogue

  • Circuit-bent Yamaha PSS-140 FM synth

  • Xynthi Supercollider Interface

  • Fender 6-String Stratocaster Electric Guitar

  • Alesis Ampliton Tremelo

  • Alesis Phalng Flanger

  • Alesis Faze Phaser

  • Whammy Pitch Bend

  • Line 6 Echo Park Delay

  • EHX Cathedral Reverb

  • Klark-Technic DN 410 EQ

  • HHB Tube Compressor

  • Seventh Circle Preamps

The resulting “interdimensional orchestra” is now available for bespoke compositions.

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