Low-Gain

Low-Gain originally hails from Duluth, MN. With 7 years of classical training under his fingertips, he's no stranger to musical composition. In 1998 Logan Erickson (before being known the world over as Low-Gain) embarked on a personal mission to give inspiration and hope to people with an old Casio keyboards the skills they need to forge fresh compositions with nothing but creativity and the science of circuit bending.

Founder of the internet group Benders Anonymous and an integral voice of the Midwest Bent Festival, Low-Gain also took a three year hiatus from the chip-tune/circuit bending scene to focus on the science of his craft, working as a recording engineer and studio technician, before rejoining the chip-tune movement in 2006 with block rocking beats from only 2 game boys an a kaoss pad.. In 2010 Low-Gain returned to his roots of analog/modular synthesis. His live show now consists of the minimal tech/dub style tones of a modular synth, being backing the thundering kicks of the notorious 808 (aka, the mistress). Never sticking to a pre-determined set of music, his performances are typically improvised and driven by how ever he's feeling in the moment.

Never content limiting himself to any one means of creating music, Low-Gain, part inventor, part rebel, part rebel-inventor, is always searching for new ways to make music interesting.