Taylor Deupree
Technology and imperfection. The raw and the processed. Curator and curated. Solo explorer and gregarious collaborator. The life and work of Taylor Deupree are less a study in contradictions than a portrait of the multidisciplinary artist in a still-young century. Deupree is an accomplished sound artist whose recordings, rich with abstract atmospherics, have appeared on numerous record labels, and well as in site-specific installations at such institutions as the ICC (Tokyo, Japan) and the Yamaguchi…
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FourColor
Keiichi Sugimoto is an artist and composer from Japan and plays in several sound projects such as FilFla, FourColor, Minamo and Fonica.His compositions have been released from record labels throughout the world such as 12K (US), apestaartje (US), Tom Lab (Germany), and HEADZ (Japan). As FourColor, his album Water Mirror was chosen among the best electronica albums in the The Wire (UK). He has also toured extensively in Europe, Asia, Australia, the United States, and Canada. He has provided numerous…
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Moskitoo
Born in 1978, and raised in Sapporo, Japan, Moskitoo is a sound artist and singer based in Tokyo. She made her solo debut in 2007 with the album Drape from 12k. Moskitoo creates a unique, fantastic, and abstract musical world by interlacing the expansive harmonics of her own voice, various objects and musical instruments, and electonic sounds. She has toured many countries in Europe, North America, Australia and Scandinavia. In addition to her solo activities, she…
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Pjusk
Pjusk is the project of Norwegian musician Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik who started creating electronic music in the burgeoning early nineties techno scene and played live around the country with the Neural Network band. A dozen releases have since appeared both solo and as part of various bands. Most prominently the Circular project which relased several acclaimed albums on the same label as the Biosphere work of that era. The Pjusk project began as a duo…
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
Award-winning composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has made a career of crossing musical and technological boundaries. Sakamoto has experimented with, and excelled in, many different musical styles, making a name for himself in popular, orchestral, and film music. Never one to be satisfied with the status quo, Sakamoto continues to push the envelope of his artistry, marrying genres, styles, and technologies for the first time to create new and exciting directions in musical expression. In…
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Seaworthy
Seaworthy, a three piece collective that revolves around core member Cameron Webb as well as Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird, was formed in early 2000 to explore melodic and experimental approaches to the construction (and unravelling) of minimalist sound scapes from looped guitar, warm drones, piano, electronics and field recordings. The compositions often blur the lines of conventional categorisation with elements traditionally considered part of “indie” or “post” rock blended with processed musical and field…
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Solo Andata
Solo Andata is an Australian electro-acoustic duo comprised of Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco. Known for their experimental compositions, they skillfully blend field recordings, acoustic instruments, and electronic processing. Their music encompasses haunting and suspenseful elements while also exuding calm and reflective moments. Through their collaborative process, their artistic vision is rooted in integrating diverse objects into their sound world. Samplers, tape machines, synths, and guitars are seamlessly combined with unconventional elements like horse shoes,…
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Savvas Ysatis
A native of Athens Greece, Savvas Ysatis began with a fascination for synthesizers at the turn of the 80’s. Inspired to pursue his own electronic identity, at age 15 he left Athens for New York where he remained until the late 90’s. His work both solo and in collaboration has appeared on labels such as Instinct, KK, Plastic City, Caipirinha, V2, 12K, Tresor, Sony/BMG, and Nuevo under a multitude of aliases such as Omicron, Seti,…
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Autistici
Autistici creates audio narratives aimed at exploring the interchange between sound and space. Space in this context also includes the subjective space held within the listener. In this realm, reflection and fantasy recontextualise the sound according to the listener’s inner world or psyche. Autistici’s work incorporates a wide range of sources including textural sound design, orchestration, silence and fragments of found sound or field recordings. Tracks focus on representing details from both the natural and…
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Jodi Cave
Jodi Cave is a sound artist and musician from from the UK. He was braught up in a small town near Sheffield playing the clarinet, went to study music, and then in 2006 completed a research internship at the ircam in Paris. Jodi’s work ecompasses studio-based electronics, laptop performance and instrumental composition. His first widely available full-length CD ‘for myria’ was released on NY label 12k in June 2007.
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Giuseppe Ielasi
Born in 1974, lives near Milan since 1990. Started playing guitar in 1988, and worked for many years in the area of ‘improvised music’ (long term collaborations with Renato Rinaldi in the duo Oreledigneur, Thomas Ankersmit, Michel Doneda, Ingar Zach, Dean Roberts). Between 1997 and 2006 he has performed live with Taku Sugimoto, Jerome Noetinger, Mark Wastell, Martin Siewert, Nmperign, Brandon Labelle, Nikos Veliotis, Alessandro Bosetti, Gert-Jan Prins, Phill Niblock, Oren Ambarchi, and many others.…
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Christopher Willits
Christopher Willits is a musician, artist and teacher based in San Francisco who believes that music and art can catalyze inner change. Willits creates meditative ambient electronic music created with guitar and voice, that is designed to overlap with his own cinematic audiovisual work. These immersive experiences of sound and light speak to a global audience on a universal level. His music on labels such as Ghostly International has garnered critical acclaim, sending him on…
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Monogoto
Monogoto are Ian Hawgood, Porya Hatami, and David Newman.
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