Cincinnati native C. Spencer Yeh has been performing under the Burning Star Core moniker since 1993. A classically trained violinist, Yeh is the center of the amorphous free noise group whose past collaborators have included: Comets on Fire, Hotogisu, Chris Corsano and Thurston Moore. The recordings vary: from solo performances of sparse, ethereal drones to full-band, dense, psychadelic noise attacks. "Operator Dead..." finds Burning Star Core (led by violinist C. Spencer Yeh) as an extremely loud four piece who waste no time and get right down to business creating massive, looping, head-splitting drones and titanic walls of sound. Calculated and controlled; the intensity builds and builds only to crash down into free-noise, psychedelic fury, sounding something like the universe imploding in on itself, only captured inside a run down Kentucky recording space