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The HooKHead Project:

The Music of Eric A. Peacock
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What is The HooKHeaD Project?

Genesis

Early on Eric A. Peacock was known only as "HooKHeaD". At this time he worked with almost no equipment creating sound collage to fill mix tapes created for friends. Focusing mostly on attempting to create industrial music (think Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails or Controlled Bleeding) and cut-up dadaist sound sculpture he produced many cassettes over a few years. This body of work was highly personal, dark or angst ridden — an outlet for survival that worked. Other themes were highly socio-political. Everything was practically recorded live with improvised single takes and mixed with nothing but two tape decks via sound-on-sound wire splicing. The last recorded piece from this phase is the cut-up social commentary Submission (available on the MP3 samples page), from the last full cassette, The Not of the Want.

Evolution

Eventually Eric moved into using more acoustic sources basing on his experience playing a trumpet and violin, but taking it further with homebuilt percussion along with (broken) guitars played with wood files, reeds, and woodwinds. Eric took a break for a period and played with a Brazilian batucada and Indonesian Gamelon which served as a path into new sounds and ideas. Much of this more organic/acoustic work culminated in the difficult release of A Partial Reconstrucion of Days in 1996, which had primitive song structure and vocals sung in abstract.

In this phase the "project" was added to the namesake and several years of highly prolific composition took place. Out of this work came rhythmic experiments and a higher focus on ambient soundtrack music devoid of song or vocal structure.

Rhythm, timbre and many drones

Always changing, this music is hard to associate with any single genre. The most common feedback brings phrases like "very cerebral" or "thinking music". This isn't music for everyone, but that can also depend on which CD or track one listens to.

The HooKHeaD Project has had light comparisons to such known acts as Dead Can Dance, The Art of Noise, Bill Laswell and the pre-industrial SPK. Stylistically anything is fair game if the right idea presents itself.

All of these "releases" are independantly produced and distributed. All cover artwork and media is also designed and produced by Eric himself. At this time not a lot of promotion goes into this work, as it is there is little time to consistantly focus on the ideas that manifest. In time that may change, but until then the curious or otherwise will have this web site. Inquiries are welcome, and CDs are always available on CD-R media.

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