Analog Electronic Music Producer PATRICK NORWOOD has created and experimented with music and sounds for over 33 years, since the age of 19 years old. Utilizing primarily analog synthesizer and keyboard hardware and sequencers, sometimes accompanied by analog and digital rhythms, his musical output reflects and encompasses the original and pioneering analog electronic sounds and genres of many of his major influences from the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. He studied and took lessons on clarinet, saxophone and flute for 4 years, starting at age 13 and gained his knowledge and proficiency of all things musical.
During his formative college years at The University of California at Berkley in 1982, Patrick Norwood was distracted from studying his major of electrical engineering and computer science by the burgeoning, unique and progressive electronic music scene in the San Francisco and Bay Areas. Severely influenced, in his early teens, in South Central Los Angeles, in the 1970s, by the numerous, groundbreaking, exquisite and legendary psychedelic FUNK performers of that era, such as George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Jimi Hendrix, Bootsy Collins, Earth Wind & Fire, The Barkays, Fatback Band, Brass Construction, Brick, Pleasure and Prince, amongst many many others.
After completing university studies, he returned to Los Angeles in 1987. After exhaustive exploration of the current club scene, he determined that he could not find any satisfying and relevant clubs or venues to satisfy his varied music and art genre favorites...so he ventured!
The creator and original DJ/Promoter/Manager of Club Lectisternium, Culver City, California, USA 1987 - 1991 and cohost of the Mind Drill Grease radio show on U.C. Berkeley college station KALX (with Richard Lesser) in 1985 making electronic music/noise for over 27 years [Duqwal Hood, Sensitiv, SOAK, Kirlian Foreskin Barbershop, Cerebral Irrumatio Artisan Well, RISE, Mugen Crack System Neorista, Caek Wok...] With Sensitiv, Soak and Kirlian Foreskin Barbershop, original music was composed and performed live for the Karin Jensen Dance Troupe throughout Southern California. Sensitiv also performed live at various venues in Southern California including Lectisternium, Zombie Zoo, Post Nuclear, UC Irvine, Joseppi's Oyster Bar and Loyola Marymount University radio station KXLU
"DURING THIS CURRENT AGE OF VIRTUAL SOFTWARE AND MIDI-DRIVEN ELECTRONIC MUSIC PRODUCTION, SYLVER COW RHYTHM INDUSTRIES INC. PRIDES ITSELF IN CREATING IT'S MUSIC USING TEDIOUS AND OLD SCHOOL HARDWARE BASED METHODS INVOLVING ACTUAL HARDWARE BASED ANALOG SYNTHESIZERS AND SEQUENCERS. SONGS ARE CREATED BY USING THE HARDWARE SEQUENCERS AND SYNTHESIZERS IN REAL-TIME AND RECORDING ONE TRACK AT A TIME. ALL SEQUENCERS ARE HAND AND FINGER TRIGGERED, GIVING THE MUSIC AND SOUNDS A HUMAN FEEL AND NON-ROBOTIC-PRECISENESS"
Patrick Norwood
