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Johnnie Valentino: 8 Shorts in Search of David Lynch

by AAJ Staff
November 23, 2005

By Ken Waxman

Sort of a modern day Thomas Alva Edison, Los Angeles-based guitarist Johnnie Valentino takes a practical approach to the somewhat esoteric concept of sound design. True to the functional philosophy of the Wizard of Melo Park, Valentino mostly uses manipulated sounds in his day job, scoring and providing sonic textures for animated TV shows and feature films.

8 Shorts is another matter, however. It's a high art application of his collection of found ...

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Johnnie Valentino: 8 Shorts in Search of David Lynch

by Rex Butters
April 24, 2005

Guitarist Johnnie Valentino lists “sound designer on his resume, and his Eight Shorts in Search of David Lynch demonstrates the craft. Valentino designs “sound beds, manipulated found sound environments with which the improvisers interact. Each captures a mood, with ambient dream world synergies seeping in, a la Lynch. The worlds spun by these musicians materialize before the mind's eye, each an original sound vignette.

Large throbbing tones, with processed spider guitar running on snare webs, open “Ambiguity. Erik ...