Jazz Articles about Johnnie Valentino

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 ...