Cottage IndustrialAbout Earth Hum       Since 1997, under the Earth Hum name, multi media artist Philip Cervi has made a cottage industry of producing low volume run CDRs of what he describes as "Post Industrial sub-minimalist sonic interferences". Earth Hum was born out of the Krautrock inspired improv. band Klangstorm, of which he was a founder member in 1996. When Klangstorm moved away from it's electronic beginnings to become more of a free jamming full scale band, he remained involved on a part time basis but created the Earth Hum project to fulfill his interest in more radical noise. PC has no formal musical training but describes himself as a "reasonable percussionist" who has shaken, beaten and stroked a variety of synthesizers, ethnic instruments, singing bowls and computers to create his own brand of surrealistic ambience. "I had listened to a wide range of music and noise for many years but was already well into my forties before I eventually got seriously into making my own. What I now is, I suppose, a distillation of thirty odd years of listening to some pretty far out crazy sounds." Those influences come from a wide variety of sources, including 1970's German Bands like Amon Duul 2, Can, Cluster, Kraftwerk, Neu!, Popul Vuh, Faust et al., topped off with the likes of such UK based experimentalists such as Throbbing Gristle, Nurse with Wound and Current 93. Add to this mix a lasting love of the sixties west coast scene, especially the Doors, Love and Beefheart, and the DIY ethos of the London and New York punk scene, and a more recent delving into the Japanese underground via Keiji Haino, Merzbow and the Acid Mothers Temple, and you start to get an idea why Earth screamingly uncompromising electric noise. The Earth Hum web site is more than just a documentation of recorded output. It is a labyrinthine exploration of the sonic and visual ideas that lurk behind the project. It is constantly being extended and updated, damaged and repaired. The Earth Hum Project is constantly a piece of Work in Progress.