Joe Potts
JOE POTTS was hailed by The Wire as "something new and revolutionary." Though he holds degrees in Fine Arts he studied electronic composition at the California Institute of the Arts dropping in on classes taught by Morton Subotnick and James Tenney. He has composed electro-acoustic music exclusively since 1973 creating Art/Sound installations in the U.S., Italy, Japan and Norway. A founding member of The Los Angeles Free Music Society, a seminal experimental music collective, he is also the "man behind the curtain" in Airway, An art/sound collective that combines walls of sound with subliminal treatments, and treats live musicians as electronic signals which are processed and manipulated. For the past 10 years he has been composing for the "Chopped Optigan" a Seventies optical sampling consol organ that he has customized and rewired in order to create dense undulating chords of up to 64 notes at a time.
JOE POTTS was hailed by The Wire as "something new and revolutionary." Though he holds degrees in Fine Arts he studied electronic composition at the California Institute of the Arts dropping in on classes taught by Morton Subotnick and James Tenney. He has composed electro-acoustic music exclusively since 1973 creating Art/Sound installations in the U.S., Italy, Japan and Norway. A founding member of The Los Angeles Free Music Society, a seminal experimental music collective, he is also the "man behind the curtain" in Airway, An art/sound collective that combines walls of sound with subliminal treatments, and treats live musicians as electronic signals which are processed and manipulated. For the past 10 years he has been composing for the "Chopped Optigan" a Seventies optical sampling consol organ that he has customized and rewired in order to create dense undulating chords of up to 64 notes at a time.
Violent Semi-Abstract
Debut duo recording of LAFMS-founder and Airway maestro Joe Potts and John Wiese. Recorded during the Joe & Joe/John Wiese mid-west tour of 2018. Melting/sweating tape music/chopped optigan.
The Elusive Flexure
Helicopter is proud to present the first trio album of Joseph Hammer (Solid Eye, Dinosaurs With Horns, LAFMS), Joe Potts (Airway, Extended Organ, LAFMS), and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek, Strain of Laws).
Gift From The Dead
New label run by Tom Recchion, one of key figures in the LAFMS group, whose "purpose is to support composers, sound artists, experimental musical activities of all kinds as well as having a hand in preserving various recordings of the past...it is the hope that Tiny Records will continue the legacy left by the L.A.F.M.S." Joe Potts started recording strange sound pieces in 1973 in a collaborative group that would later be called Le Forte Four, and is responsible for coining the term Los Angeles …