Sophie Lam and Mark Dwinell – electric organ, monosynths, electric monochords. With George Bennett – drums
Influences
Harmonia, Cluster, Kraftwerk, Popol Vuh, Brian Eno, Roedelius, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Sun Ra, Bernard Bonnier, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Folke Rabe, Faust, Arnold Dreyblatt, Erik Satie, and many others
Forma began a year ago as a new project of recording artist Mark Dwinell (Bright, Nonloc) and pianist Sophie Lam. Starting with electric combo organ, various analog synths, reverb chamber and a steel string-driven drone instrument designed and built by Mark, their improvisations explore a sonic territory that has much in common with the melodic beauty of early Kraftwerk, Cluster and Harmonia combined with the rhythmic rigor of the American minimalists Glass, Riley and Reich. George Bennett joined in on drums over the summer and along with Dwinell and Lam's spontaneous compositions created a sound at once hypnotic, expansive and urgent.
