About the band:
Null Device is a collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Eric Oehler and lyricist Eric Goedken, with a host of others A cross-country collaboration that has produced two full-length albums and several independent releases, Null Device has been experimenting with various styles of music since the current lineup's inception in 1997. With influences ranging from breakbeat to bhangra, electronica to middle-eastern folk music, from modern rock to 80's pop, Null Device is a unique voice on the independent electronica landscape.
Eric Oehler: Vocals, Synths, Violins, Naive Guitar, Bass, Duduk, Dumbek, Cümbüs, Dholak
A computer-geek trained as a classical violinist, Eric has always been somewhat of a musical dilletante. Having played in orchestras, chamber groups, folk bands, baroque trios, jazz combos and rock bands, he maintains a fairly obsessive pursuit of new styles of music. He occasionally tries to learn new instruments just for the hell of it.
Dr. Eric Goedken: Lyrics, Videography, Production, Additional vocals
A highly-published biochemist, Eric Goedken has a poet's soul, an artist's eye, and an unerring ear for a hook (these are all his, and are not part of any sort of gruesome frankensteinian experiment). Contributing elegant lyrics, beautiful videos, production note and suggestions, and the occasional spoken word track, he is an indespensible contributor to Null Device.
Jill Sheridan: Vocals, Keys
A longtime contributor to Null Device and related projects, Jill is a gifted singer with a fabulous wardrobe. She can also belch like a trucker.
Charles "Chuck4" McKenzie: Bass, Donuts
After playing in a number of bands for which he was particularly ill-suited, Chuck brings his solid low-end and the occasional banjo to Null Device. He also brings a sense of humour that borders on conceptual art, and a knack for finding donuts just about anywhere.
Elizabeth Scheef: Percussion, Keyboards
A multi-instrumentalist who perhaps has a slightly excessive fondness for Renfests, Elizabeth switches seamlessly from modern electronics to ancient percussion. She also can eat an astonishing amount of pie.
Emeritus
Dan Clark: guitars, arrangements, backing vocals, rock, funk (2003-2007)
A musician with actual training in composition, Dan eschewed the life of the starving modern composer for the life of the rock god. Bringing his considerable compositional talent and guitar heroics to genres from pop-punk and prog-metal to musical theatre and goth, Dan was a powerful weapon in Null Device's musical arsenal. He continues to play as the lead guitarist for ND buddies Stromkern, and fronts his own goth-funk-rock project "The Dark Clan."
Contributors:
Heather O'Brien: backing vocals, guitars
Orkestra Evimde: strings
Ramya Kapedia: urdu vocals
- 1991
- Eric Oehler encounters Eric Goedken at the University of Wisconsin, both mutally interested in the debut album by Electronic, the Sumner/Marr project.
- 1994
- Eric Oehler forms an embryonic Null Device -"/dev/null", a techno group writing the soundtrack for a software demonstration. Interesting, and some horrible-bad techno results. The original permutation of nulldevice.com debuts as well.
- 1996
- The original lineup dissolves, and Eric Oehler begins to record different styles of music. A strange synthpop/ebm album results. Six copies are made.
- 1997
- Eric Goedken begins to submit lyrics. The tracks "Trainwreck", "Niagara", and "Hapless" result. First demos are created.
- 1998
- Goedken is made a full songwriting partner, and Oehler begins to actually sing. Null Device records a wholly unauthorized cover of " Wicked Game" which finds some modest sucess on the bootleg circuit.
- 1999
- The Crimson EP, the first commercially available Null Device item, is released to good reviews.
- 2000
- More music. Plans and tracks for a full-length album are put together. The "Submariner" EP is released.
- 2001
- Lots of music. Some reviews, remix work, lots of club play, and after much grousing a full-length album starts to take shape. Oehler guests on a Stromkern album, and records guest vocals for the Dark Clan (a project of the future live guitarist). The video for "Word and Deed" is produced.
- 2002
- On the back of the Subliminal demo, Null Device finally scores a label deal and releases Sublimation. Reviews are generally excellent, which surprises everyone in the band.
- 2003
- Null Device hits the road, playing their first live shows. Skeptics question the lineup of guitar, bass, vocals and backing tracks, but the worries are quickly quelled by a pretty decent first performance. Bigger shows with Assemblage23, Iris, and Stromkern follow. The video for "Sad Truth" is produced and released. The "Footfalls EP", a collection of demos, remixes and oddities is released on the internet. The album "A Million Different Moments" is readied to follow.
- 2004
- "A Million Different Moments" is released. The band begins to play more distant shows. Work begins on the third album.
- 2005
- The London EP is released free on the internet, and garners good reviews.
- 2006
- Numerous delays force back the release of the third album. Not the least of which include Null Device getting invited to a number of festivals and shows. Work contines on "Excursions."
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