Crank Sturgeon: junk noise, dada faux pas, actionist ethos (act-shun pathos), fisch kopf psychedelia, non-art performance-art, nothing too serious (and yet serious enough to keep doing it). Crank Sturgeon has been active in the periphery of noise and performance since 1992. Not content with the rules of the scene, Sturgeon invoked his skills from his alma
mater to de-create his form of noise (skills which by no coincidence, were schooled in Happenings, Futurism, video art, and art terrorism). Learning also that by injecting humor, stories, pun, and gibberish into the experiment, the shape of things became more personal and likewise (as with life), ever-changing. In order to improve, develop, and continue with the theme of LOUD LIFE, everything must get rewired, inverted, and dropped on its head (not just pulling new sounds from old devices; but contraptions, costumes, and methods of presentation). Armed with voice, guitar, contact microphones, junk metal,
tape machines, and a scrappy costume in tow, the show desires to engage sonic expression and visual distortion; the cause and effect becoming simultaneously caustic and celebratory. That would be the hope at least, in matters of fishnoise and man.

CS has recorded or done split releases (and occasionally performed) with Id m Theft Able, Cock ESP, Pork Queen, Richard Ramirez, Wham-O, Witcyst, Skincrime, Cerberus Shoal, Fritz Welch, Kelly Nesbitt, Agog, John Dwyer, Paisano, Con Dom, The Haters, NED, Godstomper, Suppression, Fever Spoor, Truck Van Rental, Kadef, Due Process, Boyd Nutting, Discotheque Gronland, XV Parowek, Origami Replika, John Sharp, Dylan Nyoukis, Gastric Female Reflex, Emil Beaulieau, Mike Shiflet, Susipank, PCRV, Tote Stadt, Critical Theatre, The Nautilus Deconstruction, Raionbashi, GI & the Spykes & King Frog.

CS has released cassettes, cds, records & videos on American Tapes, RRR, Chocolate Monk, Tochnit Aleph, Mang Disc, RFTS, Bennifer Editions, Fusetron, Union Pole, Freedom From, Stomach Ache, Imvated, Tedium House, Giardia, Spite, EF Tapes, Gameboy, Breathmint, Dead Mind, Mother Savage, Bobby J, Stralight Furniture Co, Cesspool, CNP, Freesound,
Solipsism, Life Space, Mute Ant Sounds, Nauscopy, Scrotum Records, Susipank, Humbug, Stillstand, XVP, Aria Arts, Obscurica, Stentorian Tapes, Deadline, Rotkop, Audiobot & Gertrude Tapes.