recording

contact:

email me for rates and availablity-

n (@) thenormanconquest.net

credits:

Cosa Brava, Ragged Atlas (with Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Matthias Bossi, Carla Kihlstedt); Intakt Records, 2010; Sound Manipulation, Recording; Snake Eating Its Tail (excerpt)

Alee Karim & the Science Fiction, Alee Karim & the Science Fiction; self-released, 2010; Production, Recording, Mixing; Black Lace (excerpt)

Ava Mendoza, Shadow Stories; Resipiscent Records, 2010; Recording, Mixing; Kiss of Fire (excerpt)

Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Weasel Walter, Last Distractions; Singlespeed Music, 2009; Recording; Straw Men (excerpt)

Myrmyr, “The Sea Returns” from The Amber Sea; Digitalis Recordings, 2009; Recording; The Sea Returns (excerpt)

Barn Owl, The Conjurer; Root Strata, 2009; Production, Recording, Mixing; Ancient of Days (excerpt); Red Horizon (excerpt)

Jon Porras, Nemcatacoa; Digitalis Ltd., 2009; Mastering; Deep Mirage (excerpt)

Evan Caminiti, Psychic Mud Shrine; Digitalis Ltd., 2009; Mastering; Midnight’s Road (excerpt)

Zachary Watkins, Country Western; Important Records “The Harmonic Series” Compilation of Musical Works in Just Intonation, 2009; Recording, Mixing; Country Western (excerpt)

Wu Fei, “Red Carriage” (Featuring Shayna Dunkelman) from Yuan; Tzadik Records, 2009; Recording, Mixing; Red Carriage (excerpt)

The Atomic Bomb Audition, Light Will Remain; self-released, 2008; Sound Manipulation, Production, Recording, Mixing; Copernicus (excerpt); Reseda (excerpt)

Dokuro, The Black Room; Aphonia Records, 2008; Sound Manipulation, Mastering, Production, Recording, Mixing; October Moon (excerpt)

Gregg Kowalsky, Tendrils in Vigne; Root Strata, 2008; Recording, Mixing; Tendrils (excerpt)

Elliott Sharp & Antoine Berthiaume, BASE; Ambiances Magnétiques, 2007; Mixing; Neck (excerpt)

Maryclare Brzytwa & Antoine Berthiaume, Bebe Donkey; Ambiances Magnétiques, 2006; Recording, Mixing; She Also (excerpt)

The Atomic Bomb Audition, Eleven Theaters; Hector Stentor, 2006; Sound Manipulation, Production, Recording, Mixing

Gregg Kowalsky, “Tendrils (guitar pickup)” from Through the Cardial Window; Kranky Records, 2006; Recording

Antoine Berthiaume, Quentin Sirjacq, & Norman Teale, Leaves and Snows; Ambiances Magnétiques, 2005; Sound Manipulation, Recording, Mixing; Nuclear Times (excerpt); Freedom Fried (excerpt)

recording bio:

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.