jason voss

::: discography :::

• "Mitten State Transmissions" (Top Quality Rock and Roll, Fall 2005)
  Jason Voss (or really, JAV) contributes a piece called "violin & mic" to this compilation of experimental, noise, electronic and space rock from Michigan benefitting WHFR 89.3 FM in Dearborn.
• "There is a Rat in Separate" by Melting Moments (We're Twins Records, September 2005)
  Debut album by ace deuce casio noise sex pop duo of Anna Vitale (keyboard, beats and lead vocals) and Jason Voss (guitar, backing vocals, production).
• "Il Programma Di Religione" v/a (Boyarm, 2005)
  The New Sound of My Bossa Nova and Residential Tetanus each contribute a 15-second track about a pope (St. Pius X + St. Sixtus, respectively) to this 265-track compilation of 15-second songs about the 256 popes.
• "I'm On This Album Too!" by MC Trashpedal (Chew Your Own, Summer 2005
  Ian Trashpedal, Master of the Arts, presents a compilation of songs upon which he makes guest appearances as well as those by bands of which he has been a member. JAV appearances include "Dad Song" by Jason Voss and the A2 Two (from "Two Songs") and jams by Hot Meat for Young Lovers.
• "CTEC 3" Singles Club #3" by Hot Meat for Young Lovers (Casanova Temptations, June 2005)
  "No Fly Zone" & "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree" recorded live at practice in February 2005 at Totally Awesome House by Jason Adam Voss, who also plays violin and sings. The other players are Patrick Elkins on lead vocals and guitar, Andrea "Mad Dog" Malek on bassoon, Ian "MC Trashpedal" Fulcher on spacetrumpet and trashpedals and Chris "Legs" Pierce on drums.
• "duration" by Sean Schuster-Craig and Jason Voss (no label, March 2005)
  Eight tracks: 4:00, 2:00, 1:00, 0:30, 0:15, 0:07.5, 0:03.75, 0:01.875 recorded by SSC and JAV alternating tracks on a 8-track recorder. Instruments used include but are not limited to guitar, violin, spaceviolin, drums, delay pedal.
• "'Arts & Crafts' and Other Compositions for Singer-songwriter" by Jason Voss (We’re Twins Records, October 2004)
  Debut full-length from singer-songwriter Jason Voss. With impressive fold-out liner notes including full annotated lyrics and exciting music for any sorts of folks. Four tracks compose a "deadly medley" of densely layered multritrack recordings with vocals by Jib Kidder, Eliza Godfrey and Patrick Elkins. Four tracks are live recordings made in the Totally Awesome upstairs bathtub with ukelele or nylon-string guitar (two each, of those one each with singing). The remaining three tracks are multi-tracked songs in the bedroom recording tradition. One of those is six minute rap regarding CD-R labels.
• "The New Folk Sound of Patrick Elkins" (We're Twins Records, October 2004)
  Jason Voss sings and plays several instruments on this album, Elkins solo debut for WRT. He also assisted in the stressful and complicated process of completing the album, which involved mixing the songs down from 4-track at double speed and then digitally correcting the speeds (late the night before the album release show).
• Animals Ride (Chartreuse Chicken, September 2004)
  Lo-fi songs about animals by Eleanor Josephine Clowney and Jason Adam Voss. Incredibly (maybe most ever) beautiful packaging handmade by EJC and including water colour paitings unique to each copy.
• Asaurus EP Club #7 (Asaurus Records, October 2004)
  Jason Voss & Patrick Elkins (hobos) contribute four exclusive songs on this installment of the quadruple-EP-on-one-CD-series. They go way out in a bizarre and awesome direction for the noise folk of the future.
• "Songbook" by Jason Voss (self-released, September 2004)
  16 pg. 8 1/2 x 11 book with 6-song cd. A postmodern exploration of the demo genre with recordings of JV singing and playing Pat's guitar done by Chris Bathgate. The booklet has lyrics in attractive handwritten large font and a short essay. Second version of the companion CD issued in September 2005 with smaller CD, one less bad song and live jams with Nat Baldwin on upright bass recorded during their East Coast Tour in February 2005.
• "Jelly on the Logic Box: Greatest Hits Live Volume One" by Hot Meat For Young Lovers (Chew Your Own, August 2004
  Jason plays violin on two tracks by these NOISE FOLK LEGENDS, also including PATRICK ELKINS, ANDREA MALEK, MC TRASHPEDAL, CHRIS "LEGS" PIERCE and DR. NO-NO.
• "Two Songs" by Jason Voss and the A2 Two (Casanova Temptations, August 2004)
  Live piano-driven post-country band with Ian Fulcher on trumpet and Patrick Elkins on drum. All songs in 6/8 and lyrics in the form of philosophy speeches. This is the manifesto.
• "Hobos Sing the Songs of Lacey Buckingham" (Chew Your Own, August 2004)
  Jason Voss, Patrick Elkins and Justin Shay write the music for and perform the songs of Washington State lyricist Lacey Buckingham. Jason sang "Hell Town"
• "On The Edge in Idaho" by Patrick Elkins & Jason Voss (Chew Your Own, July 2004) This three inch CDR is only available to residents of the state of Idaho and is the first installment in the Chew Your Own State series.
• "Hobo-A-Go-Go: The Official Tour CD" by Patrick Elkins, Justin Shay & Jason Voss (We're Twins, July 2004)
  This CD features songs alone and in mutual collaboration by the three members of the singer-songwriter collective Hobos, released for their July 2004 tour. JV contributions include "Arrangement," "New Kind of Pair," "Design & Aviation" (with JS) and "Is It Love?" (with PE).
• "Solo Violin" by jav (Burning Tongue Records, July 2004)
  Four tracks of live improvised composition using loop pedal and violin. Packaged in purple sleeves with cover depiction of money-hungry beast by SSC. Edition of approximately forty.
  full mp3s: violin eight :: violin five :: violin three :: violin six
• "S&W RMX PRJCT" (We're Twins Summer 2004)
  I commissioned, curated and compiled this double CDR of music made using samples from the "State & William" recording that I made in the summer of 2001. I also designed the artwork and contributed a Residential Tetanus mix and two half second remixes in collaboration with Ben Bracken. Remixers include Chris Threesprocket & Pissthrob Rockhero (who dedicated an episode of their WCBN radio show Electric Kingdom to live State & William remixes, from which the remixes on disc two are taken), Saturday Looks Good To Me, Martes martes, Jib Kidder, Jacob Danziger, Tadd Mullinix, Chartreuse Chicken, Cockroach Huxtable and Zach Wallace. Disc two also contains the original state & william recording in its entirety.
• "Solo Guitar" by jav (Burning Tongue Records, April 2004)
  Four tracks of live improvised composition using loop pedal and 4-string guitar. Packaged in attractive green fancy paper with cover depiction of money-hungry beast by SSC. Edition of approximately forty.
• "Asaurus EP Club #4" (Asaurus Records, April 2004)
  The New Sound of My Bossa Nova contributes four songs recorded live in the basement of 608 Catherine by Justin Shay and Jason Voss. They are: "Little Pills," "The Breeze," "Hey Samba" and "When You Grow." The first three are way different versions of songs from the two TNSOMBN full-lengths and the last is an exclusive song.
• "Sing Songs of Love" by The New Sound of My Bossa Nova (We're Twins, March 2004)
  Jason Voss recorded and plays on "books," "after the scene" and "drums" on this masterpiece by Justin Shay's third wave bossa nova project.
• "All Hallow's EP 2003" (We're Twins)
  Jason plays guitars and sings on "A Song for Halloween" by Pineapple Cat (with Aleise Barnett) and plays organ on "What are You Going As?" by The New Sound of My Bossa Nova (with Justin Shay)
• “For the Kids” by The New Sound of My Bossa Nova (We’re Twins)
  Jason plays guitar and keyboard on the boombox recordings on this CD and wrote the song "Outage."
• “Maybe We Can Help You Find a Place” by Ever Will You Get There (We’re Twins)
  Jason Voss and Justin Shay played guitars, environmental objects and sang on this ep recorded outdoors in Ann Arbor one night.
• "A Free Example of We're Twins Musics 2003" v/a (We're Twins, 2003)
  Jason Voss recorded and/or played on a bunch of tracks from this CDR.
• "Octaves 1" by JAV (Stop-Eject Records)
  A composition made using a computer to copy a square wave at various powers of 2 in a simple pattern.
• "Fun in Learning" by Slovak (Stop-Eject Records)
  Slovak was the CD skipping duo of Stop-Eject founders Randall Davis and Jason Voss.
• "In the Woods" by And Spiders (We're Twins, August 2002)
  Jason plays bass and whistles on this CD which also contains playing by Kelly Caldwell, Ben Tausig, Fred Thomas and Greg Malivuk.
• "#2" by Production Bee
  An improvised piece performed by Jason Voss on no-input mixer in Prod B at WCBN in Ann Arbor.
• "12583" by Cannibal Kitten (We're Twins, Fall 2001)
  Cannibal Kitten was Jason Voss, Kelly Szott, Katie Linden and Matt Buckman. This CDR was recorded in Jason's apartment on Packard street one evening under the influence of some wine and using only instruments and other objects that happened to be in the apartment at the time.
• "State & William" (We're Twins, Fall 2001)
  A recording by Jason Voss in the early hours of one Saturday in the summer of 2001 of the audio crosswalk signal that was then at the corner of State and William in downtown Ann Arbor with some musical manipulation of the buttons by Jason. It was released in an edition of 16 CD-R, each with handmade artwork incorporating a manipulated polaroid of the crosswalk box. It is the source material for "S&W RMX PRJCT"
• "A We're Twins Live EP" (We're Twins, 2001)
  This conceptual live EP features the Most Dangerous Game of Cat and Mouse Band playing a featured set at an open mic which they were hosting in the basement of the Michigan League at UM, two songs by Lieutenant Disaster and a demonstration of the Whistletron by FMV's Amy Chatfield. Jason Adam Voss came up with the idea for the CD and put the thing together.
• "#1" by Production Bee (We're Twins, 2001)
  A single improvised performance utilizing turntables, feedback and effects in Prod B at WCBN by Katie Linden, Matthew Buckman and Jason Voss.
• "Adrenaline Test Suit" by Residential Tetanus (We're Twins, Summer 2001)
  Solo boombox recordings by Jason, mostly recorded in one day with lots of simultaneous instrument playing.

::: forthcoming :::

• "10/31/2005" (We're Twins)
• "(untitled moth-themed album)" by Kyle Reimer, Justin Shay, Patrick Elkins & Jason Voss (We're Twins)
• "Five" by Ever Will You Get There (We're Twins)
• "WRT 2005 SAMP" (We're Twins)
• "practice" by Meatstand: A Musical Tribute to the Music of Rootstand (unauthorized illegal bootleg)
• "Vi(s/t)ion 1.0" by Jason Voss (We're Twins)
• "Hobo A-Go-Go Live" (We're Twins)
• "The Hobo-A-Go-Go Tour went to Missoula, MT and All I Got Was this Lousy EP Recorded Under A Bridge" (Chew Your Own)
• "Greatest Hits Live Vol. 2-10" by Hot Meat for Young Lovers (Chew Your Own)
• "We're Twins In Concert Volume One" (We're Twins)