Steve Burnett originally played alto clarinet and saxophone, and currently plays Chapman Stick, theremin, and electric upright bass (Zeta Crossover), performing in several improvisational, cinematic, and ambient groups of musicians in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. His work has appeared on two compilations.
Steve is active in the local music scene, maintaining the NC Goth website and the NC Prog (progressive rock) maillist. He also participates in 919noise and in the now-defunct AIM (Alliance for Improvised Music) group, and hosts house concerts for improvised and related music at badgerhaus.

(Steve's effects chain and gear, out of date but relevant in scope)

Current projects:
Subscape Annex - ambient/industrial improvisational looping
Phasmatodea - cinematic improvisational Chapman Stick duo
Laocoon - solo looping, tangled in the cords and loops like serpents
Cab Caligari - instrumental acoustic cello and electric upright arachnobass, fiddling while the Weimar Republic burns

Occasional work with:
Audio Arcade - the sound of many

Under development:
Ouroboros - organic bass horn parasitism and symbiosis

Online:
Chain-Tape Collective - Caligari and papermusic

Previous work with:
Fukadugalon - improvisational tribal noise
Seventeen Cobwebs for Emily (17CFE)
Total Information Awareness - ambient trance

Steve's Performance History

Influences: Coil, Djam Karet, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Bill Laswell, Tony Levin, Lightwave, Bill Nelson, Michael Nyman, Robert Rich, David Torn, John Zorn.