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VOLUME is currently developing and promoting new projects with the following artists:
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WILLIAM BASINSKI
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A classically trained clarinetist, composer William Basinski was inspired in the late 1970’s by minimalists such as Steve Reich and Brian Eno to develop his own vocabulary using tape loops and old reel-to-reel tape decks. Basinski is best known for releasing the sprawling four-disc set The Disintegration Loops, described by Pitchfork Media as “the kind of music that makes you believe there is a Heaven, and that this is what it must sound like. |
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FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER
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Berlin’s Frank Bretschneider has incorporated visual art with music for several years now, from his early collaboration with celebrated visual artist Olafur Eliasson (Aerial Riverseries) to his own digital audio/video projection pieces. Bretschneider’s trademark icy-sharp, glitch-fused funk and synchronized structuralist videos have earned him international accolades for being one of the foremost composers of minimal dance music.
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JEFF CAIN
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Jeff Cain is an artist who investigates cultural, technological, and natural systems and creates work that intervenes and remodels these structures. His work has been presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Musee D’art Modern de Ville de Paris, Track 16, LA Freewaves, and many other Southern California venues. He is also the founder and inventor of RHZ Radio, which was nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005.
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RICHARD CHARTIER
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Minimalist composer and installation artist Richard Chartier pushes his work into the furthest fringes of the audible spectrum. Programmed as well as improvised, calculated yet intuitive, his live work has been described as “ecstatic” and mesmerizing. Chartier's sound works and sound installations have been presented nationally and internationally.
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DANIEL GARDNER
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Stemming from his training in classical piano and interests in electronics and DIY culture, Daniel Gardner creates , funky, eclectic house music as Frivolous, a phenomenal “one-man performance” where sounds are triggered by a sandwich-maker, a telephone and an electro-magnetic knife, brandished while wearing a chef’s hat or full-body skeleton suit.
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TIM HECKER
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Montreal composer Tim Hecker produces dense, hallucinatory collages of volume and textures. Hecker buries delicate melodies deep within waves of granular washes and dissonance, enticing the listener to explore with him ever-shifting fields of tension, vibrations and resonance.
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ISIS
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Los Angeles based quintet Isis makes music that resists easy categorization. As often as they are described as a metal band, it can be argued that they are also a minimal/ambient group employing the tropes of post-rock and metal. Known for their use of down tuned guitars, minimalist repetition and slowly evolving chord progressions, ISIS also builds massively dense and beautiful walls of feedback, noise, volume, weight and texture.
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MATMOS
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Matmos is M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel, aided and abetted by many others. Their recordings over the last nine years have incorporated the amplified sound of microscopic noises including slowed down whistles and kisses, liposuction surgery, violins, rat cages, peck horns, tubas, cards shuffling, conversations in hot tubs, and a steel guitar recorded in a sewer.
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STEVE RODEN
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Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, and performance. In his sound works, singular source materials such as objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings, are abstracted through humble electronic processes to create new audio spaces, or 'possible landscapes'. Roden's performances and installations have been presented nationally and internationally. |
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DAVID SCHAFER
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David Schafer is a New York based artist who began exhibiting in the mid eighties, primarily in public art. His projects incorporate language, signage, architectural structures, sound and audio components. Having amassed an extensive collection of records with an emphasis on noise, experimentation, easy listening, moog, and electronic records, Schafer often mines this archive as the subject of his work. |
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SKOLTZ_KOLGEN
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Montreal “pluri-media duo” Skoltz_Kolgen has extended their explorations of digital rhythms and synthetic timbres into the visible spectrum. Their work has been described as “synchronicity of laptop sounds and projection imagery. When spidery skeins of geometric shapes and armatures of 3-D terrain modeling flowed across the two screens, abrupt sonic ruptures pulverized those shapes into new configurations.”
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