Music - Oakland, California, United States
The Norman Conquest [TNC] is a San Francisco Bay-Area based engineer and producer who specializes in recording esoteric music at the intersections of modern classical, rock, metal, avant-garde, and drone. Utilizing unconventional recording practices, TNC uses the recording studio as his instrument.Some of the artists that TNC has recorded include Barn Owl, Grouper, Elliott Sharp, Mute Socialite, Gregg Kowalsky, Quentin Sirjacq, Zachary Watkins, Alee Karim, Agnes Szelag, Marielle Jakobsons, Ellen Fullman, Stuart Dempster, Phillip Greenlief, Molissa Fenley, and Blixa Bargeld (of Einsturzende Neubauten). TNC's recordings can be found on record labels such as Tzadik, Intakt, Root Strata, Important, Ambiances Magnetiques, Digitalis, Aphonia, and Tompkins Square Records.In addition to recording, TNC performs as a sound manipulator and vocalist in Cosa Brava (with Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Matthias Bossi, and Carla Kihlstedt), Art Bears Songbook, Dokuro (with Agnes Szelag), and The Atomic Bomb Audition. TNC has performed throughout Europe and at various international festivals including FIMAV (Victoriaville, Canada), Musique Action (Nancy, France), Music Unlimited (Wels, Austria), Music for People & Thingamajigs, and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.
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