JHNO

John Eichenseer – also known as JHNO and delicateear – is a nomadic musician, recording artist, and music technologist. Most recently he has been collaborating with Carla Bozulich and Evangelista on their fourth record for Montreal’s Constellation label, and toured with Carla and Massimo Pupillo in Europe playing viola and electronics. As a pianist with jazz roots, he has played with Todd Sickafoose’s Tiny Resistors, John Zorn’s Duras, John Evans, Abra Moore, and Tina Marsh’s Creative Opportunity Orchestra. Solo concerts have included San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts, SFMOMA, the Art Authority at South by Southwest, and the X/XX Experimental Music Festival. Collaborations with modern dance, film, and performance art have included work with the Sharir Dance Company, Sally Jacques, Toni Bravo, Jose Bustemante, and David Jewell.

JHNO released 3 full-length solo CD’s, a 12″ single, and two albums with John Ridenour as the band SPOOL. He has appeared on Constellation, Instinct, NewDOG/World Domination, Ultraviolet, Crippled Dick Hot Wax, and his own Delicate Ear record labels. Radio appearances include live performances on Italian and Armenian National Radio in Yerevan, where he studied with duduk master Varazdat Hovhannisian. He embarked on extensive busking tours with Levent and Selçuk Duran in Turkey, and CandyCactus (Lithuanian singer Evelina Taunyte) in Southeast Asia.

JHNO has been involved in creative music software since the mid 1990′s, and has written software for Björk, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Thomas Dolby, Michael Brook. With Cycling ’74 he was a key developer for Pluggo, radiaL, and MaxMSP – innovative music software that is used by thousands of artists, including Aphex Twin, Autechre, Radiohead, Monolake, and Pauline Oliveros. He pioneered the field of live laptop performance during several years of improvised concerts with Scott Amendola and Nels Cline in the band