silentcat + Musician in Toronto, ON

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27, Chinese, live in Toronto, bassist, producer and label owner.

10 years band experience (performing/recording/producing) in China and keep continue (https://soundcloud.com/wanderlust-electro-duo & https://wanderlustsynthpopduo.bandcamp.com), released 2 synthpop/electronic mainstream label album in China. Act as recording engineer/assistant for 3 or 4 years, as indie band producer for 2 years. Also have 4 years soundtracks/scores composing/recording/producing/mixing/mastering experience. Works won a best score awards in Los Angeles Film Festival, and had been heard in lots of film festival such as Cannes in last few years.
Also songwriter-singer, multi-instrumentalist and workaholic, used to finish 50mins scores from writing to mastering in two weeks.

Solo project links: https://wisefake.bandcamp.com
Co-founded Label:
https://briefnote.bandcamp.com
http://briefnote.net

And scores workshop with bandmate: https://soundcloud.com/wanstudio
Having more than 400 times performances experience, performed with lots of "famous" bands/musicians, such as Max Tundra (Warp), Fred Frith (Tzadik/Ralph), Handsome Furs (Sub Pop), and worked as sound administrator for 2 stop of Kode9's China tour and 1 stop of Kid606's China tour. Usually playing bass (fretless) with pedal, and analog synthesizer, called by Fred Frith, Front 242 and Max Tundra as one of the best favorite performers. Improvise-able.

My workshop: http://victorweizuo.weebly.com

Screen name:

silentcat

Member since:

Mar 20 2016

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Committed

Years playing music:

11

Gigs played:

Over 100

Available to gig:

2-3 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

Have heard more than 50,000 albums, lots of influences. For example, have finished listening to discography of Warp, Ninja Tunes and Tresor records, also discography of Kompakt, DFA, etc. Works as "consultant, advisor and library" for lots of Chinese musicians for years. Entered music from Post-Punk/Industrial at the beginning, listened discography of all "wiki/discogs lists of artists", then got more and more, like funk, motown, soul, stax etc. Playing influences mainly are Mick Karn for bass, BBS Radiophonic Workshop for synthesizer, and Zappa-alike for mind, as totally free, George Martin/Joe Meek for producing, and Debussy/Stravinsky for strings-based scores composing. Genres I'd like to play or produce: Dub, Alternative with dub, IDM, breakcore, ambient house, ambient dub, post-hardcore, post-punk, industrial, psychedelic, and whatever. Genres good at produce: post-rock, post-punk (revival), dreampop, shoegaze etc.

Instrument experience:

Bass Guitar:

Advanced

Electronic Music:

Advanced

Acoustic Guitar:

Moderate

Keyboard:

Moderate

Accordion:

Moderate

Rhythm Guitar:

Intermediate

Drums:

Beginner

DJ:

Beginner

Clarinet:

Beginner

EQUIPMENT

Fender Fretless Jazz Bass
Squire strat for studio
Roland SH-201
Alesis V49
Traktor S4MK2

Pedal:
DOD FX66
Fuzz Factory
Big Muff
Line 6 Echo Park
EarthQuaker Organizer
EarthQuiker Sea Machine V1