Los Angeles Free Music Society Profiled

Source: The Guardian.

We were artists using sound as our medium, trying to find a different approach by letting go of the musician part,” wrote Rick Potts in his first-person history of the Los Angeles Free Music Society. Formed in the early 70s in the un-hip enclaves around Pasadena, the LAFMS was a loose collective of individuals who banded together to push the boundaries of sound, noise, music and art. To accomplish these goals, they used an unorthodox array of electronic and analog tools: tape loops, kids’ musical toys, homemade instruments and industrial objects. As founding member Tom Recchion notes: “I always felt like Evel Knievel. I could jump off any building and try to test something out.”