Dead Air Fresheners

Dead Air Fresheners
Dead Air Fresheners, performing 12 January 2008 at Bob's Java Jive, Tacoma, Washington.
Background information
Origin	Portland, Oregon, Olympia, Washington, Seattle, Washington USA
Genres	Experimental rock, post-punk
Years active	1996–present
Associated acts	Karp, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Notable instruments
Moog synthesizer, Electric guitar, clarinet, saxophone, cello, oboe, digeridoo, Casio keyboard

The Dead Air Fresheners are a Portland, Oregon, Olympia, Washington, and Seattle, Washington-based experimental and post-punk musical group with a somewhat fluctuating membership. They have been described by Portland's KPSU as "A long-time mainstay of the Experimental Rock Scene." They count Sun Ra, John Cage, Sonic Youth, Sun City Girls, and Jandek as influences.

The band formed around 1996. They claim to have first formed "in a dilapidated beachfront mansion on the Eld Inlet in Thurston County, Washington" (Eld Inlet is the site of The Evergreen State College); in any event, they first performed publicly in the late 1990s at Olympia, Washington's annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival.

Their instrumentation has been known to include Moog synthesizer, and tape samples, drums, ambient vocals, distorted feedback, electric guitar, computers and digital toys, and digeridoo. The Dead Air Fresheners state in interviews and on their My Space page that they do not play improvised music despite frequent perceptions to the contrary. Rather they use a process of Chance Music composition influenced by the work of John Cage (also called Indeterminate music) and their Myspace page provides several examples of scores from past performances.