NERVE evolved out of Jojo Mayer’s legendary party event Prohibited
Beatz in NYC during the late 90′s. Initially a platform for
experimental interaction between DJ’s, visual artists, musicians and
the audience, the collective eventually developed into a fine tuned
group that cross-pollinated the premeditated format of programmed
electronic music styles with real time, improvised music performance.
Within that format, the band assimilated a wide spectrum of electronic
styles from old school Jungle, Dub Step or Glitch beats to Minimal and
Tech House and anything that could escape genre descriptions yet. In
the process, the group managed to acquaint a new audience with
improvised music for the first time and ultimately bring the Jazz
tradition of improvisation, driving rhythms and stylistic evolution to
the digital age. Meanwhile, it embraces the essence of Rock ’n Roll
of having a good time and showing the finger to anyone who has a
problem with it. NERVE re-examines and transcends the relationship
between human creativity and digital technology and created a new form
of musical expression which is completely unique in the world today.
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