Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Website: kwa.us
Sounds Like: Zoviet France, Hafler Trio, SPK, Thurston Moore, John Cage
Genre: Experimental
KWA is an abstract artist specializing in UltraSonic Illuminations. His performances cut through the matrix of thought control propagated by Mass Media. KWA lays down The Sonic Law forcing a paradigm shift in consciousness.
"...unlike any familiar sound known to mankind."
Matthew Forss - Music Journalist for Inside World Music
"...the art of KWA resembles the visual work of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol."
Stafford Davis - Curator I/O\I (eyeoeye.com)
“...such a sonic environment pulls the rug from under the listener, leaving them aurally off-balance..."”
Jason Randall Smith - Contributing Writer for Impose Magazine
"...an experiment in sound...a work of art."
Ian Wise - Freelance Writer and Music Journalist
"...the ultimate abstraction of human perception through noise."
Matthew Forss - Music Journalist for Inside World Music
"The combined effect is like that of a Rothko painting, where shapes and colors blend and fade into a cohesive and unified whole."
Stafford Davis - Curator I/O\I (eyeoeye.com)
"...his works float freely through time and space...to lift you out of your own reality and forcing you to deal with an alternate one."
Jason Randall Smith - Contributing Writer for Impose Magazine
"...similar to beefed up Sleep Drones, or another Hex Schmitt Trigger like circuit."
Ian Wise - Freelance Music Journalist
"KWA is a U.S.-based multimedia wizard that explores and pushes the boundaries of the human listening experience."
Matthew Forss - Music Journalist for Inside World Music
"...a protrusive “k” used in the same hard line Germanic way that Kafka applied it."
Stafford Davis - Curator I/O\I (eyeoeye.com)
"KWA is an artist that rails against the conventional elements used in music, be it electronic or otherwise."
Jason Randall Smith - Contributing Writer for Impose Magazine
"The artist’s use of low tones and stereo separation is reminiscent of a technique pioneered by the late Robert Monroe in a system called Hemi-Sync®."
Ian Wise - Freelance Writer and Music Journalist
"Like the brave Dadaists of yesteryear..."
Stafford Davis - Curator I/O\I (eyeoeye.com)
"In more words, a defiant affirmation of originality often posed as a question..."
Stafford Davis - Curator I/O\I (eyeoeye.com)