Elastic Collision

Between the year 1999 and 2001, Frank Ashley, Jr. and Ken Moore started meeting on a weekly basis to record improvised sessions direct to disc. The entire set-up filled two rooms with only two synthesizers (a Minimoog and an Emax by Emu Systems) and a lot of percussion. There were cymbals, gongs, bells, hand drums, triangles, a glockenspiel, bar chimes, hanging wind chimes, singing bowls and bowls that were made to sing. Frank played the keyboards for these recordings, creating short sequences on the Emax and leads on the Moog, while Ken moved about from table to table, playing whatever instruments were speaking to him at the time. They called themselves Elastic Collision, and their first album was completely live; it was titled "Listening at the Speed of Sleep". After that sold well to friends, Anvil Creations produced one other album called "Visitors Welcome". On this one, Ken added some percussion tracks to all the sessions, and played the bass guitar on some of them.