George Trotter has been making music in Atlanta for more than thirty years. He has played in bands: Turbid Blue, Concrete Surrealists, Blue Velveta, Dresden Bombers, LoudWalkers (with Chris Gravely), Bongo Wrench, Disc, Grady Cousins, Now What? (with Joe Choo), The Kind, Z- information (with Brian King and Tony Gordon), Zentropy (with Allen Welty-Green), Sorda Experience, CrawlSpace, and more.
As a composer and performer, his collaborative projects include: The Center for Puppetry Arts (with Jon Ludwig, Joe Choo, Peter Hart); Music and Sound Design for the following productions: Cirque Pataphysique, Heaven and Hell Tour, XPT (experimental puppetry theater); with Neil Fried: Sunday Sessions ( Frank Schultz, Aaron Ruscetta), Ghosts of the Rubble (Skies over Atlanta) with Neil Fried, Jerry Cullum, Priscilla Smith, Bill Taft, and others.
An experienced improviser, he is a frequent contributor to the local creative and experimental music scene at places like Eyedrum (Robert Cheatham), RailRoadEarth (Neil Fried), No Tomorrow Underground (Priscilla Smith, LuCifer), The Bakery Atlanta (Willow Goldstein), Mammal Gallery (R.I.P.), and others.
Inspiration for his video shorts comes in large part from the desire for large projected imagery as a backdrop for live performances. These video shorts are a vehicle for his more esoteric musical compositions.
George plays a stratocaster through an array of devices and loopers to create lush soundscapes and strange noises. He uses Ableton Live, Cubase, and other tools for recording and triggering samples. He uses DaVinci Resolve for editing video.
If you would like to see and hear more of his work, go to his YouTube Channel.