Nick Forte

Brooklyn's Nick Forte, a noise pop musician in the best sense of the word, is a master of everything from avant garde guitar to ambient textures to musique concrete to disorienting sound collages. Born in 1971, Forte began experimenting with a guitar in the early 90s, later adding computer processing into his musical evolution. As half of the ambient punk duo, Christmas Decorations, Forte crafts lulling melodies with dark undercurrents bubbling beneath the surface. He's inspired by composers such as Gert-Jans Prins as well as German genre-breakers like Can and Neu which, on C...