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Nux Vomica is a sound art musical trio based in San Francisco, California. The present members of Nux Vomica have been performing together, as a unit, for the past seventeen years. Each with a unique and active history within the experimental music field.

Nux Vomica utilize sound processing, electronics, found sounds, and aural sculpture to achieve a unique and trance like sound environment. The sounds travel from peaceful to terrifying containing elements from the ethno-influenced to industrial and create a personal soundtrack for the individual listener.

Nux Vomica has involved themselves in the recording of at least 12 releases within the US and three available on cassette labels within Italy and Sweden and the U.K. Their pieces have appeared on over 30 experimental music compilations. They have contributed to sound tracks of films and have produced several experimental films themselves as part of their multi media performances. These performances usually include the utilization of sound and vision for the purpose of allowing the audience to drift beyond the performance space to become more involved mentally with the performance. The current performance includes dual slide projection as well as full screen video projection designed by the members of Nux Vomica. It is a dreamscape painted before the eyes of the audience with both light and sound.

In 2007, Nux Vomica is beginning it's 17th year of sound art production as a team, in the Bay Area.

The members of Nux Vomica have been long active members in the experimental music community within San Franciso and beyond. Their body of work has included involvement in and collaborations with Big City Orchestre, Haters, Freeland, Voice of Eye, and Sense/Net, Concerto Infernal (A Bay Area experimental music collective). The members also have involved themselves in musical projects outside of Nux Vomica which include Curium, Battery, St. John the Baptist, Nu33.3X, Ultrasound and several more.

In the past Alan Herrick and Jenny Liang Herrick established and maintained Auricular Records (1989). Auricular Records was a small independent music label dedicated to preservation and support, as well as distribution, of the works of world wide experimental music artists. The most notable of the Auricular Records projects would be the Auricular Audio Magazine compilations. Its 12 present volumes contain and chronicle musical pieces and the projects of experimental artists worldwide. They have been responsible for several experimental music series and soundart festivals within the Bay Area over the past years. Auricular Records went on hiatus for several years and resurfaced as Auricular Media Design, an umbrella organization which maintains the past Auricular Records catalog and focuses on several other media projects including the production of Auricular Immersion Media Online Magazine.

Alan Herrick is the designer of the body of the visual presentation included within a Nux Vomica performance. These visuals include slide projection of computer generated graphics as well as manipulated imagery and original video works. His history within the Bay Area experimental music community includes performing and recording with groups such as Santa Cruz's Big City Orchestre, Sense-Net, Concerto Infernal, Haters, Ultrasound, NU33.3X amongst several others.

Jenny Liang Herrick is the curator and manipulator of found sounds as well as the primary rhythmatist. It is her delicate blending of "dry" sounds with the synthesis and soundscapes created by the other members that offers a unique and unworldy quality to the pieces.

Evan Sorenstein began working with electronics in the band Q.E.D. in 1983, a duo with vocalist Christopher Evans. Evan continued to work on solo projects with film, and in 1985 began Stuff Bones Are Made Of with vocalist Katie McGee, and completed a 12 song album. In 1986, while attending Bennington College as an Electronic Music Major, he began scoring pieces for choreographer Eleanor Lynn and began collaborating with Shawn Brice in several performance art pieces involving music, dance, slides, film and video, and performed soundtracks for non-existing films. He continued to present solo work of several sound and video installations as well as a large scale suite for radio entitled "Wireless". He currently has 7 cassette releases on the dynamophone label. Evan is the founder of Curium design, a graphics design company as well as vehicle for music and soundart production and besides Nux Vomica is also presently involved in running the Dynamophone label and recording in several sound projects.

The following is as close to a complete discography as we have managed to pull together. Unfortunately we know it is not 100% complete but we are always discovering and searching to make it as such. If you know of anything we have missed please let us know.

compilations:

full-length releases

film soundtracks an visual works:

nux vomica live performance 09.07.07
Nux Vomica will be performing live at Orbis Nex in Oakland with Voice of Eye, Asia Nova and Ure Thrall.
visit vial magazine for details

nux vomica live performance 07.31.07
Nux Vomica will be performing live at Poleng Lounge in San Francisco on July 31st as part of the IXMAE Soundscape Performance Series.

orbix nex live performance available for download
An audiofile from the Orbix Nex performance, which marked the first time Nux Vomica has performed live in a public venue in almost ten years, can be downlooaded free from the Auricular Records website. The release takes its name directly from the evening's event title, Sublunar - The Transmutation of the Esoteric by the Deluge of the Eventide. If you would like to purchase a CDr or download a free lower quality stream of the show you may do so here.

live performace
Nux Vomica will be performing at Orbix Nex in Oakland, CA on Saturday, June 16
Also performing that evening will be Big City Orchestre and Lapsus. For more info visit Vial Magazine

video on you tube
The very first Nux Vomica video that was produced in 1991 is available (edited of course) for your viewing pleasure at youtube: view the video now

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you may write to nux vomica via snail mail:

131 garfield street
san francisco, ca
94132

telefon: 415.412.2802

email: nuxvomica at auricular dot com

Nux Vomica - For Every Cure There is an Ailment
This is video footage that was used to back live Nux Vomica perfomances and would have normally been projected on multiple screens. This particular video piece was created in 1991 and has one of the live performances as its soundtrack.

Nux Vomica Gear - Preparing for Live Performance
These photos were taken during preparations prior to the first live Nux Vomica performance in many years, at Orbis Nex in Oakland, CA. Many cables and cords and rickety old devices were rifled through to make sure we could get our sound sources in at least close to working order.

Alan's and Evan's Gear - Sans 1 Computer

Another shot of Alan's and Evan's Gear

Jenny's Gear

Nux Vomica: Spindal Alpha - A Video Process
A video process generated by Alan Herrick of Nux Vomica primarily used as a backing video projected on multiple screens during live performances. This particular clip was synched up with audio from tne Spindal Alpha release, one of the earlliest nux Vomica releases in 1990. The only video effect used to generate this piece were slow motion and mirror image effects, everything else is entirely analogue and creatd during the video taping process.