TRANSIENT

Transient is a solo and collaborative project in which Molina explores electro-acoustic, ambient, noise, industrial, free improvisation, and experimental music. He sometimes plays traditional acoustic instruments, or invented and found object instruments, and filters them through electronics, effects pedals, loops them and then alters the samples in real time. The results can be meditative soundscapes which are either light, beautiful and haunting, or dark and disturbing. Other times it can be beat driven layers of noise, or a wall of shoegaze noise guitar. He recently released the live album “It Was Always Here” with trumpet player Darren Johnston. Other collaborators include: John Ingle (violinist), Yvette Jackson (composer/sound artist), the late composer Chris Webb, George Cremachi (bass); electronic musicians: Thomas Dimuzio, Polar, Garret La Fever, Miguel Hernandez, Mickey Tachibana, and Kyron; saxophonists: the late Marco Eneidi, Drew Ceccatto, Marc Williams, Alex Weiss, and Ackamoor/Molina Duet; video artist Mickey T, filmmaker Anna Geyer, and performance artist Violeta Luna.

Rehearsal collaboration with choreographer Byb Chanel Bibene
at Crossover Residency, Red Poppy, SF, CA 2016. Note: the first 30 seconds go from silent to very quiet and eventually grows very loud as you hit 2:30 minutes!

For this live set at Noise Pancakes at the LAB in San Francisco, Molina utilized broken Auto harp, Flute, Voice, contact mic, electronics, and Axis 9 CDj’s. The voices you hear are from interviews with Latino immigrants telling their personal stories of their hopes, dreams, and nightmares working in sweat shops in the USA. All source material on the CD’j’s have been recorded and originally created by David Molina.
Don’t mind the funny random video in the back ground. It doesn’t match the music and I didn’t know it was playing behind me during the show.

From “Night Light”, a multimedia garden party at SOMARTS which took place April 27, 2012. 700 people attended this event which featured film, video, installation, music, performance art, light and sound sculptures! This version of Transient featured: Garrett La Fever on Memory Web, electronics and Bells; and Bethany Clemen on harp, bells, and vocals. I played electronics, guitar, broken autoharp, cello, drum, and did vocals.

We provided the live improvised soundtrack to the 16mm film loops of Anna Geyer, who mixed her loops live by hand, which were projected on the wall behind us. Mickey Tachibana’s frequency reactive video was projected on the floor and our bodies. Garrett and I also worked on the Memory Web a couple weeks before the show and added 12 more new strings (28 total), 4 bridges and 2 more tuning heads, and 4 new pipes. We used it in our set as well.

A collaboration Between film maker Anna Geyer and Molina’s project “Transient”. Anna mixes original 16mm film loops on 3 modified projectors, while Molina creates a live soundtrack as he improvises and loops himself on various traditional, non-traditional, homemade instruments, found objects, and electronics.