Tim Feeney and Vic Rawlings have performed as a duo since 2005.  Their music explores an unpredictable relationship with making
sounds, achieved by elaborate preparation of acoustic soundboxes, such as drums or cello, and expanded via original electronic
instruments, ranging from naked circuitboards to amplified kitchen objects. They focus on the metamusical potential of unstable
sounds and silences, exploring austere combinations of sound and the otherworldly ripple effects that pulse through a silent space
or alert ears.  The group has toured throughout the Eastern United States, and released its first CD, In Six Parts,
on the Sedimental label in fall 2007.



 Tim Feeney treats his percussion setup
 as a friction instrument, using bows,
 scrapers, and rosined drumheads as
 implements and sympathetic resonators
 to capture and amplify frequencies that
 go unheard when an object is struck
 with a mallet.  He amplifies this
 acoustic console with an electronic
 instrument, arranged from mixers,
 contact microphones, and effects
 pedals, that further alters its spectral
 characteristics.


Tim collaborates with musicians including James Coleman,
Howard Stelzer, Jack Wright, and the trio Onda, with whom he
has performed at venues such as the Red Room in Baltimore,
Boston's Institute for Contemporary Art, Firehouse 12 in New
Haven, Connecticut, the Knitting Factory New York, Princeton
University, Harvard University, CNMAT at UC-Berkeley, and
the inaugural Counter Fit Festival in Rochester, New York.

As an interpreter of contemporary compositions, Tim has
performed at venues such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music
and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, with the So Percussion
group.  With Boston's Callithumpian Consort,  Tim has appeared  
at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, and as part of Tonic's
50th birthday celebration for John Zorn.  He has recorded for
the Sedimental,
 Soul on Rice, lildisc, Audiobot, and Brassland
labels.
 Vic Rawlings is active as an improviser
 and instrument builder, specializing in
 modifications of existing instruments,
 creating extensive cello preparations.  
 He also continually develops an electronic
 instrument from extant exposed circuitry,
 producing, in effect, a modular analog
 synthesizer with a highly unstable interface.  
 This electronic instrument is paired with a
 flexible array of exposed speaker elements,
 chosen for their often unpredictable and
 idiosyncratic acoustic qualities.            


He performs as a soloist and as a member of  undr quartet, the bsc, and
in duo and trio ensembles with Mike Bullock, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey,
Sean Meehan, Jason Lescalleet, James Coleman, Liz Tonne,
Tatsuya Nakatani, and Howard Stelzer, among others. Collaborators
have included musicians as diverse as Eddie Prevost (AMM), Donald Miller
(Borbetomagus), Daniel Carter (Other Dimensions in Music), Laurence
Cook, Jaap Blonk, Masashi Harada, and Stephen Drury.

He has recorded for the Grob, Sedimental, Emanem, Boxmedia, Chloe,
Absurd, and Rykodisc labels.  He has performed as a soloist/composer
with the Nicola Hawkins Dance Company, and has composed scores
for films by Alla Kovgan and Jeff Silva.  He has appeared on the Music
Action and Victoriaville International Festivals, and has toured the United
States and France.