TWISTED HELICES

Twisting in the Wind: pseudo-intellectual commentary on the state of society

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Traversing a Twisted Path: the first album

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Who am I?

TWISTED HELICES is just one person. I play the guitar, sing, and program the rhythm section for the songs. I record everything on a multi-track. My history, equipment, and DiY pages contain more information on this.

It's hard for me to describe what I sound like (convenient, eh?). I am into making self-indulgent forms of music---the more warped it is, the better. I am also into the heavier stuff. But since I do the entire rhythm section on a keyboard, all my compositions end up sounding really poppish and so I add in a bit of distorted guitars and processed vocals to make things rough and raw. So this results in what I consider an interesting blend of electronics and warmth. I have released one album thusfar, Traversing a Twisted Path, and you can check out the sound files if you want to see what I sound like. (You can even rank the songs after you hear them!)

The name TWISTED HELICES comes from one of my passions in life: the study of proteins. (Actually the name arose when we were discussing the structure of Z-DNA but I thought it would be cooler to link the name to proteins.) Helices are secondary structural units in protein structures, and the helices shown in the logo are from Leg Haemoglobin. All the letters in the name represent the one-letter codes of various amino acids. If you know anything about proteins and amino acids, you'll notice that the amino acids in the helices logo also read (the one letter code for each amino acid is capitalised):

Threonine Wtryptophan Isoleucine Serine Threonine gluEtamic acid asparDic acid