þÿ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>cachexia</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#000000" alink="#FFFFFF" vlink="#000000"> <center> <p> <br> <font face="Courier New,sans-serif" size="-1"> <b>17 December 2006</b> It's the beginning of winter, although it's felt like winter in Portland for a couple of months now. I've been staying in a dorm room after getting kicked out of the place I was staying under some questionable motives of the person who owns the place. I've spent a fair amount of time alone which has led me to this: my recounting of how this musical project came to be. <p>In high school, I played in countless bands. Eventually, I started to record very harsh noise under the name Cachexia, which according to dictionary.com, means "Weight loss, wasting of muscle, loss of appetite, and general debility that can occur during a chronic disease. <font size="-2">[Late Latin, from Greek kakhexi : kako-, caco- + hexis, condition (from ekhein, to have; segh- in Indo-European roots).]</font>" After quitting high school in late 2001, I moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where, after awhile, Cachexia became myself and a fellow named Andrew Pruett. We played an abrasive form of industrial noise consisting of oddly-tuned distorted guitar, very simple drum machine loops, and hoarse screaming. <p>That project ended in the summer of 2003, and starting in 2004, I began to record what would become <i>The Dream</i>, a collection of eclectic songs and improvised pieces inspired by early American frontier culture, boredom at work, stimulant use, sleep paralysis, hot and humid and cold and snowy Pennsylvania days, and a series of odd dreams I had. This was finished in early 2005, around the time I toured with a few people as Narwhal, driving all the way from Pittsburgh to the Pacific Northwest, playing shows at coffeeshops and peoples' houses and apartments. <p>I decided to move to Portland, Oregon while traveling, and returned to Pittsburgh for a few months to tidy things up, during which time I recorded <i>The Trembling</i>, which is more electronic than <i>The Dream</i> and deals more with my feelings about moving across a continent than anything else. After moving to Portland, I became part of <a href="http://www.victoryandthelads.com">Victory & the Lads</a>, playing psychedelic, experimental rock. Cachexia had been set aside for a time, but recently I've been working on some new pieces, which are more ambient than anything I've recorded before. <p> <img src="http://www.unpunk.com/~ben/pictures/592/20061217/20061217112630.jpg"> <br> about/news, <a href="music.htm">music</a>, <a href="lyrics.htm">lyrics</a>, <a href="links.htm">links</a> </font> <font face="Courier New,sans-serif" size="-2"> <p>(c) 2001 - 2006 Benjamin Greene</font></p> </center> </table> </body> </html>