In 1991 Eric and Eric discovered each other at the University of Wisconsin
in
Madison. Within a few short years, and the help of a decked out
PC in the
UPL, they are called upon to do the music for a short
demo of
multimedia and
rendering. It brought together all the various
portions of the
lab - the
graphics guys and their
ray tracing software (which later became
hypercosm (found at
http://www.hypercosm.com/)), the
jugglers wrote programs to plot the x,y,z locations of juggling balls, and others ported the software to to the language of the
ray tracer.
Several other bands form in this lab with a strong techno flavor
to them. "inorganic name" by William Annis (with his strawberry
iMac) and Occluded Front by
Tom Lawrence (writing his own synth software) both formed in this lab
as well.
In 1996, the various people graduate and move on. Eric Goedkin then
begins adding lyrics to Eric Oehler's works resulting in in the songs
"Trainwreck", "Niagara", and "Hapless". A year later, they
formally pair up and continue on.
The Crimson EP was released in 1999 as the first commercially available
recording.
To date, the following has been released, compiled, or remixed:
All three bands have their music on http://www.mp3.com/ and
are a good listen if you enjoy the
techno/trance/ambient/new age/EBM/etc
style music. nulldevice's web page can be fo