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• Label: Locust Music >>
• Genre: Avant Garde/Experimental

Inspired by natural cycles of texture and repetition, BNSF creates music with an organic momentum.

Building music from the melodic noise and polyrhythms of industrial activity, BNSF exists between aleatory structure and song form, music and noise.

Adam Diller, Jason E Anderson, and Matt Crane met through their involvement with Open Music Workshop, an offshoot of the recent explosion in Seattles improvised music scene. A sense of purpose was established during the first improvisations of the trio, spurring the formation of BNSF. Meeting at their practice space near a train junction in downtown Seattle, they realized the importance of the environments influence on their music. Drawing on their surroundings, BNSF took their name from a passing train car. They began experimenting by playing in construction zones, under a highway overpass, through a huge metal tube in a shop yard, and next to unloading freight trains.