Sunday, October 19, 2008

Itchy-O's Scott Banning speaks at Abecedarian October 28th

Scott Banning currently works in the Denver County Intensive Care Unit as an EMT, at least that’s his day job, by night, with his crew of collaborators he creates audio/visual work under the name Itchy-O. Combining Guitar, Accordion and samples of a wide variety of sounds ranging from the mundane to the highly unusual with handcrafted, distorted and distressed films, Itchy-O creates work that evokes both the mysterious and the ridiculous.

Banning’s musical career includes working with Crash Worship, Super Collider and Alpha Jerk among many others. He’s worked in the LA Movie world and the San Francisco Art world at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and was the proprietor of  San Francisco music venue The Ptomaine Temple.

Itchy-O has participated in numerous film festivals including The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE) in Montreal and The Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Lausanne Switzerland. They have several albums out including Pulmonic and Tosspot/Linchpin

For more information about Banning and Itchy-O go to http://itchyo.com

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