Operator Music Band

With shades of art-pop experimentalism and electronic minimalism, New York’s Operator Music Band is a blend of the comforting analogue old and the kinetic digital new. Warbling synthesizers and waves of feedback noise wander over steady motorik beats, bringing krautrock into an exciting third wave of synthetic bliss. What ultimately defines their sound is an aesthetic and tonal malleability, willing to appear both serious & silly.

At the center of Operator Music Band is the complex symbiosis between Dara Hirsch and Jared Hiller. Hirsch, a audio engineer by trade brings a cerebral intensity to her virtuosic guitar playing and vulnerable vocal delivery, while Hiller is all flash and noise, partly through his own analogue effects tinkering (l0/rez). The duo has recently been joined by Gabe Pittleman on bass and Daniel Silas on Drums.

The band released their debut LP, Puzzlephonics I & II (New Professor Music) in 2017. Later that same year, they released an EP, Coöridnation, which, as with their previous effort, was mixed and mastered by Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Snail Mail). Coördination also began their relationship with producer Henry Terepka, who they would work with again on their second LP, Duo Duo (Broken Circles) which was released in 2019. The beginning of 2020 saw the release of Duo Duo: The Remixes, a carefully curated album of musicians and producers remixing the 2019 album.