noiscian, and visual artist of many stripes who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has preformed at the NorCal Noise fest on several occasions, The Big Sur Experimental Music Festival (2003/04), The Oakland Noise festival and twice at the Spring Reverb experimental music festival in San Diego. Most recently, she played Spring Reverb with the Band "Lords of Outland", headed up by the infamous Rent Romus... CJ has played with Kaylee Koombs in the out-ambient duo Swoon Doll and many folks including, Ellen Weller, Bob Weller, Marcos Fernandes, Nathan Hubbard,Robert M, Ignaz Schick, Rent Romus, Phillip Everett, Ray Schaeffer,Andre Costudio, Dina Emerson, Jim Ryan, and Matt Davignon and many other folks.
CJ Borosque plays analog FX boxes configured in a “no-input” design which allows for the creation of sonic feedback and feedback sounds without the use of a typical sound source…all her noise projects are currently created using the electrical signal that is within her gear. She also sometimes plays other various electronics and Instruments: her fascinations include, sound, noise, sculpture (sonic and tactile), Installations, silent films, avant garde films and videos, modern, impressionist and surrealist art, jazz (especially free-jazz), and selected pop treats.
Recently she bought a cheap trumpet and uses it to make jazzy sounds. She believes in recycling the used stuff in her house to make sculptures, her favorite stuff to use are Aluminum Cans. She loves Cats. She likes to write poems and, mostly, she wants to be free of conforming attitudes within art that say things like “in order to come from a authentic place you most absorb the standards of your art form” or things like “you most be like one of US if you don't fit in”. CJ likes original art where the artist “shoots from the hip”, and she believes in intuition and in using the self as a resource from which to draw ones primary inspiration. She believes in the Jackson Pollock Quote where he said “I am nature”...and she thinks we are all nature, that human nature is good and that art is good when it comes from our human nature. She likes to express her deepest emotions through her art, and she does not believe that noise has to be a cruel, cold or vindictively aggressive music. Passion is the very purpose of her art. CJ is also a lover of silence and quite as well as loud noise. For her sound and silence are best friends.
" Borosque's work on no-input pedals is impressively smoking, rusty royalty hoisted to the heavens of mental obnubilation."
- Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes
"Lots of spastic noise at first and then a harsh noise wall where just as you start to get bored with it she comes back with more spastic noise...a great combo."
- Noisear
"She's also fond of noise, chaos, machine-like repetition, and songs that combine layers of sonic strata to create the sound of machines growing, expanding, and overtaking their surroundings until they collide and destroy each other in gear-stripping, paint-stripping sheets of sound. " - DEAD ANGEL
"C.J. Reaven Borosque’s elecronics adds an apocalyptic deepness and blackness."
- Tokafi
"Borosque is a poet of the modern age." - Frank Rubolino - onefinalnote.com/Cadence
"I watched as you shaped in Crystalline Sweetheart, Kafka's Gregor in a new form, female, and more generous in its estimation of itself...capable of dancing, celebrating the discovery of its difference"
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Dr. Demetrius Frederich Ké, satrap aka, Dr. Charles Poncé
"C. J. Reaven Borosque has an imposing presence. Her poems are hardly light or delicate. Feel the chaos. Let the waves crash over your head. Absorb every body blow."-Jon Worley, Aiding & Abetting
"Her social critiques and daring efforts have earned her a unique niche between science fiction author and culturally aware poet. - Bradley Torreano,All Music Guide
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