Twine (band)
Twine is an electronic music duo that formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1997. In addition to releasing four albums and one EP, the duo have also created two royalty-free libraries of audio samples for the Sonic Foundry digital audio workstation, ACID.
History
Greg Malcolm and Chad Mossholder went to the same high school in Cleveland, Ohio, when they began making music together. They also shared a common interest in skateboarding and attended Akron University together for a year. The group formed at Kent State University in 1997 as a collaboration between Mossholder and David Graves, working under the name "The New Severe Theatre", before Graves moved to Maryland a few months later. Mossholder then asked his old friend Malcolm to join, and they changed the name of their pairing to Twine. Both Malcolm and Mossholder have formal educations in computers and technology.
The group's first album Reference, was released in 1999. The second, Recorder, came out in 2002, followed by an eponymous release in 2003. There followed a five year wait until their fourth album, Violets, which finally arrived in 2008. The majority of work on the album occurred from 2003–04. Commenting on the delay, Malcolm stated, "After four years, I felt personally hopeless about the release and lost faith basically in the entire indie-electronic music business." Mossholder, on the other hand, said that both the band and label Ghostly International wanted to "release something special for the listener". Both men were also busy with their personal careers in the interim, though they continued writing and recording new material, and have a large collection of unpublished music. Mossholder has done extensive work writing music and doing sound design for video games, while Malcolm works in the telecom industry. In 2011, Malcolm said that the duo would attempt to "re-launch" Twine that year.
