Chuck Bettis, Mikey IQ Jones, and Derek Morton are mad jugglers of atypical musical entities. Processed banjo, shamanistic chants, and countrified electronics are set up against lattices of stuttered beatboxing and found-object percussion to confound and delight.

Bettis and Morton met in Washington DC, crossing paths as participants in that city's burgeoning experimental music community. Upon relocating to New York City, the two began collaborating as a duo before IQ Jones joined them in early 2007. IQ's alarm clocks, duck calls, and array of unlikely sound devices provide a lively counterpoint to Bettis' machine noise and Morton's chaotic circuits.

In the 90's, Chuck Bettis shook up Washington DC with no-wavers the Metamatics, his solo electronics moniker Trance and the Arcade, and the genre-traversing collective All-Scars before relocating to New York in 2002. He has since collaborated with John Zorn, Fred Frith, and Ikue Mori (amongst others), and has recorded with Nautical Almanac, Yellow Swans, and Measles Mumps Rubella.

Vocalist/percussionist/one-man bomb squad Mikey IQ Jones has presented frankensteined collusions of performance art theatrics, mutant soul harmonies, beatbox and extended vocal technique, kitchen-sink live sampling aesthetics, and onomatopoeic wordplay in solo performances
since 2003. His otherworldly rhythms, created exclusively with the sounds of IQ's voice and a small handful of household objects, have captivated crowds and crossed genre-lines, resulting in performances from CBGB's and the downtown improv school to uptown hip-hop block
parties and choreography collaboration.

Derek Morton has generated and manipulated sound since the early 1990's, relentlessly investigating the possibilities of audio in all contexts. He is equally interested in live improvisation, studio research,
exploratory composition, and electronic reconfiguration. Morton's sound experiments have attacked everything from cutting-edge technologies like surround-sound to reinvented tools like handheld video game consoles and controllers. Mikroknytes, Morton's duo with violinist John Coursey, has released four full-length CDs. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.