is a sound artist, musical sculptor, musician, experimental video artist, abstract visual artist, and noisician, 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 had many sonic incarnations, and grew up in a family of musicians (which afforded her the bedrock of her early musical growth) Years of brooding and obsessive introspective delving punctuated by bouts of madness led her on a journey out of the sonic mainstream, and into the underground, experimental scene in San Francisco. At this date she has released 4 albums, one poetry CD entitled "The Metal Quan Yin" (which was a poetic meditation the dangers of the new millennium and the goddesses that inhabit our dreams and daily experiences). Her next project entitled Machine" (a purposely out-of-tune 45 minute guitar rant ) was intended as a statement about modern civilization and it's mechanistic and brutal emptiness punctuated by a spiritual Nihilism that is devoid of God...it is in essence a garage-noise critique of the empty modern western world which has been robbed of its sense of nature, Her first "Harshnoise" release..."They" is an exploration of the demons that inhabit the western unconscious which are repressed and avoided in American Society but which roam freely in the wastelands of the mind and are expressed in other cultures as spirits and gods. Her album "Bedlam" which was released on Edgetone Records was about alienation and madness derived from the archetypical damage of a inherently empty social system, It was created within the context of newly invented sonic sculptural forms that are meant to bring noise and sculpture together in a way where the sound can be seen and felt as well as listened to. The structure of the music is improvised and composed spontaneously but is intended to be seem as figurative bedrock for the conceptual message of the "pieces" which derive their meaning from meditations on artificial Intelligence and the difference between the "dead machine" and the "living machine"...a distinction that is delineated by a shift in creative emphasis from pure noise to sound that is both extreme and deeply deliberate. Her Newest Album on Edgetone Records that is to be released shortly is a journey though three different live environments and contexts... The Album simply entitled “Beautiful”…is about nature, its cruelty… its horror and its fragility. The spider on the cover is meant to convey both the astonishing power of life as well as its destructive force. Throughout the career of CJ Borosque she has offered up her noise-ventures as singular commentary of psychological states of being that come from the intersection of human consciousness within society and the tensions and conflicts that arise from those states. The album “Beautiful” is neither nihilistic nor dystopian, but is instead a celebration of the vitality of the animal world and the veracity of nature. These tracks represent the wanderings of a mind that is filled with light and the tension between consciousnesses of imprisoning system in which we live and the awareness of the true vitality of the natural human spirit . With this album CJ embraces her fear of madness and her fear of death and brings the beauty of both within the reach of the listening observer. This album is about the reconciliation of the human mind with the powerful and dark forces of the unconscious, which rises up in rebellion and destroys those who would deny the power of its presence. This is an album of great depth that belongs in the mind of any lover of truly raw vital sonic chaos. 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 Schaffer,Andre Costudio, Dina Emerson, Jim Ryan, and Matt Davignon and many other folks. C J 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.
"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
CJ Borosque + Robert M /INSTAGON
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