Radiohead, Bjork, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, the Eels, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Beck, the Beatles, Amanda Stewart, Amy X Neuburg, Aphex Twin, Led Zeppelin, Tori Amos, Explosions in the Sky, The Flaming Lips, Courtney Brown, the Beta Band, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Stravinsky, and women's choral music.
Sounds Like
Sweeping ambient vocal textures/Musically consonant layers of epic proportions.
Carmen Caruso is a composer, vocalist, keyboardist and programmer. She creates sonic collages using electronics and her voice, and is interested exploring the grey area between indie pop, electronica, and computer music. Currently, Carmen is working her debut album, The Tree Philosophies, which sets philosophical ideas to music. The album promises to be a smattering of beats, layered vocal textures, and dysfunctional pop structures. The concept for the album is based her own philosophy, beism, which discusses ideas of universal human connection and growth. In performance, she also incorporates her self-created instrument, the Carmenizor, which transforms her voice to create an electronic soundscapes and changes vocal parameters in performance. Some of her influences include indie pop and electronica, ambient-techno, alternative and experimental rock, lo-fi, and minimalism.
Carmen recently received her Masters through Dartmouth College's Electro-Acoustic Music program.
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Carmen currently founded and performs in a group called Banana Rock!, a bay area trio of multi-instrumentalists with a unique bent on indie rock, folk, and synth-pop. She has also performed in groups such as Electrocab, a trio of performers/composers who combine subversive pop and sound art into one strange beast. Some venues she has performed at include the Laila Lounge in New York, the Spheris Gallery, the Outpost in Boston, and the Ballard Firehouse in Seattle. Her music has been discussed on NHPR and her compositions have been featured at the 2008 International Computer Music Conference, the Festival of New Musics at Dartmouth College, the Way to Go Out series, the Boston CyberArts Festival, and the Dartmouth-Hartt Music Exchange.
Don't forget to check out "The Tree Philosophies", which will hit online stores this April!
.. Hi there Carmen Caruso first of all we'd like to say thanks for being our myspace pal. We wanted to make sure you knew the reason incase we suddenly vanish off of your friends list. The movement we've started for indie artists has grown significantly and consumes all of our time these days. We seldom sign into our myspace account and this is making several people believe that we are ignoring them. We are not ignoring anyone, we wanted everyone to know that. What we're doing has become so busy we just don't have the time for myspace any longer, so in all honesty we are probably going to just close our myspace account.
Many people wanted to use us in the future so if you were one of those people make sure you bookmark the link below so that in the event that we do close our myspace account you won't lose contact with us. I wish you the best of luck in your music career. Thanks again for being our myspace pal.
yo- it's about time yous gots a comment. whys i gots to do this from new zealand is crazy! yo yo to the carmen! i sent you a letter to sirensystems but it rejected me. what up with that? hope classes are stimulating your brain like a snakes ass in the middle of the desert in mid july. keep it real-
cheers
