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Peter Woods

Peter J. Woods is a noise musician and researcher from Milwaukee WI. He has actively toured the country for over a decade and runs the FTAM productions record label and concert promotion organization. He is also the chair of the music committee at the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts. Woods is currently a doctoral candidate of digital media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The state of the art of knock offs: An interview with Dan Schierl, founder of the Generic Dr Pepper Knockoffs Facebook page

Peter Woods
August 5, 2019
To know the work of Dan Schierl is to know a collection of oddities, rooted in a deep respect for the archives and archival process with a strong penchant for the ridiculous and absurd. As a musician, Shierl cr...
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