OF EARTH is a multimedia communication of sight and sound. Drawing on songwriting drenched in vibe and musicianship, Of Earth has created a name for themselves as a band that is both modern and classic. They have often performed with intense light sculptures, evoking spectacular images that compliment their dramatic emotional landscapes. ROB DE LUCA makes noises by using his diaphragm to push air over his larynx. His vocal chords open and close in a delicate or violent fashion, producing somewhat pleasant, but occasionally unnerving sounds. He simultaneously produces deeper noises from an apparatus made of wood and four long wrapped wires, which he attacks with his fingers or a plectrum. This apparatus is fitted with magnets coiled with hair thin copper wire creating an electromagnetic field. This field picks up the vibrations made by Mr. De Luca's unorthodox attacking and delivers it through a cord to an electrical amplifier. His peculiar ritual has now (d)evolved into an underground movement, which confused critics have labeled "Staring At Sound".

PAUL CASANOVA plays a similar wood contraption that has six thin metal wires. He attacks this exclusively with a plectrum and produces a much wider and far more interesting array of sounds. His contraption also has magnets that transmit an electromagnetic field to an electrical amplifier. This amplifier is connected to paper cones fitted with magnets that magically transform electric energy into sound energy. We're not quite sure how he does it either, but it causes Professor Casanova to jump around uncontrollably. This often leaves us wondering if something is going drastically right, or drastically wrong.

Never one to be outdone, MICHAEL MAY uses absolutely no electric energy to create his aural experiment. Armed only with the energy of sheer human force, Dr. May beats on pieces of wood or plastic, curved into circles of different sizes to produce tones of different pitches. By beating on these with thin pieces of wood, he can alter and mix the rhythms and dynamics of the tones. He intersperses this ritual with similar beatings of flat metal spheres to produce very high frequencies that upset all canines and mothers within 267 square feet.

When all these processes coincide Of Earth is truly a marvel of art and science.

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