In 2004? David Humphrey and Angela Dufresne met at the fine arts work center – by 2007 David had hosted Angela on his podcast sound and vision where she raved about the uncategorizable Japanese band Les Ralliaze denudes for much of the conversation. In 2019 Nitin Mukul met at Humphrey’s opening in NYC, and was subsequently invited to RISD to give crits and an artist talk. There was banter of metal that brought them together shortly after for a session. It was an effortless explosion from the get-go. The obvious next step was to invite Humphrey into the fold. At some point Mukul had labeled the threesome Total Binary Annihilation (TBA) and the name has stuck- though there is talk of shifting to Pine-Crone at some point. The trio makes lots of noise- tries to remain improvised while steeped in metal – they converge at some points frequently and at other times rarely– but have no plans of dispersing in this lifetime.
Total Binary Annihilation
Angela Dufresne / David Huimphrey / Nitin Mukul
