About the shiteasters
The shiteasters is a collective of creative audio alchemists
focused on turning information of all kinds into music. Our backgrounds
are varied, our skillset is vast, and our resources are many, permitting
us the luxury of constant work on a great variety of projects. We
pursue this goal of musical invention as a reward in itself, unsullied
by greed or a corporate agenda. Below you will find biographical information
on the core members of the shiteasters.
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Silent G
G was raised in beautiful Northern California, where he learned
his craft with electronics. He was raised in the shadow of a
HAM radio relay station and frequently visited it to fiddle
with its dials. Shortly after his family obtained a personal
computer he began cracking the local BBS, posting pirate ASCII
art on conservative web servers and deleting letters from city
council webposts to spell rude words.
By age 17 he was a network admin for the one of the larger
law firms in Sacramento, where he custom built server systems
and honed his knowledge of the penal code. After graduating
high school as "most likely to build the next computer" he attended
the University of California, Irvine as a computer science student
before transferring to the Studio Art department in which he
studied sculpture and new media theory.
After graduation, G went into the private sector where
he designs and builds pneumatic assisted-living products for
the elderly and refurbishes 8-track cassette decks. In his spare
time he races his remote controlled ultra-light airplane and
fashions helmets out of refuse. His art has been shown internationally.
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The Logic
The Logic was born Alex Trazinski in Poland, 1980. Though taught by his parents to play several folk instruments at an early age, he was quickly inspired by the emerging Polish electronic music scene, particularly the early work of Maciek Pietraho. But his burgeoning interest was stifled by his father’s ardent disapproval, and his family’s sudden move to the United States in the wake of the collapse of communism.
With the change in location came a change in name, and Alex Baker continued to explore the limits of musical creation. Showing little interest in schoolwork, most of his time was spent creating recordings of his homemade electronic instruments. He shared his parents' surprise at his acceptance to the department of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine in 1998, but saw an opportunity to expand his horizons and advance his education.
He admits to considering suicide at the end of his second year at the university, after he lost his late night show on the college station, KUCI, and an apartment fire claimed much of his immense collection of recordings. But from that dark time came the birth of The Shiteasters, and a new chapter in this immigrant’s life.
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Crystal Lite
The son of an Irish military man, Crystal Lite was born in the snowy deserts of southern
Idaho
. His father, a devout Buddhist, a high school drop out, and a well-read amateur scholar, earned his militaristic keep as an electrician on secret nuclear power facilities. Relocating frequently, his family suffered greatly, but Crystal Lite bore well, keeping his father’s favorite phrase nestled always near his heart. “Remember, this moment is nothing, and you are nothing in it.”
At the
University
of
California
,
Irvine
, in his 18th year, the Lite fell into a dark and deep depression. Surrounded by the vices and voices of a troubled world, Crystal Lite proceeded to drink heavily, pop anti-depressants, and chase women. Although an Art History major, Clausen’s real passions lay in the toil of physical labor, in Taoist and Czech literature, and a little thing called self-denial. As such, he seldom went to class. In this state, Crystal Lite managed to stay alive for years, balancing dangerously on the narrow catwalk between strict fasting and the glutinous intake of white russians, sex, and bean and cheese burritos.
Fearing for their compatriot, Silent G and The Logic inevitably pushed Crystal Lite off the wagon and into the dreary ditch of existence. It was from these humble and troubled beginnings that the Lite blossomed into the strapping, long haired, self-denier that he is today. He is musically incompetent and irrelevant, but richly dynamic of body, mind and soul.
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*This infographic is updated real time based on a computerized processing of the 3 members insulin levels, geographic location, and activity level. All 3 members wear cellular pager biorythmic units.
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