| ACT1 Saul Stokes+Swipe |
April 20, 2002 |
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Audio: Saul Stokes (Hypnos, Binary)
Saul Stokes was born in Seattle Washington. After adolescent training on both the violin and trumpet, Stokes discovered the tonal possibilities of the synthesizer and started creating electronic music as a teenager in the mid 1980's. He also famous as synth DIY and design engineering, to build highly eccentric music devices including modular synthesizers He sign with Hypnos and released three albums, Washed in Mercury, Zo Pilots and Outfolding. In 2001, the album Abstraction was released on Minneapolis' GreenHouseMusic label. Abstraction fuses the best of 3 years of concert recordings with Stokes' latest multitrack atmospheric work. From Philadelphia to Seattle, this album is a fireball of ambiance. Abstraction isn't a noise collage, or easy listening ambient fluff. It is an incredibly listenable,wildly fresh and inventive continuous play album Stokes currently lives just outside of Berkeley California, and is working on two new Hypnos recordings slated for early 2002. His next solo CD titled Fields, will bring together close to 2 years of intense multitrack studio work and will come out on Hypnos' new Binary label, a sub-label devoted to more dynamic rhythm oriented soundscapes. Prior to the release of Fields, a collaboration between Saul Stokes and Vir Unis titled Thermal Transfer will also be released on "Binary.
Visual: Swipe aka Scott Pagano
Scott pagano is a video and sound artist living in San Francisco, ca. his work includes experimental film/video pieces, live video performance, architectural photography, and electronic music composition. driven by a keen interest in the byproduct of machine errors, graphic reworkings of architectural spaces, and breakdowns in communication systems, his work foregrounds both precision image reconstruction and malfunction fetishism. Through careful/chaotic video compositions, he focuses on developing an intense visual language to offer up an alternative view on the multitude of systems and processes that exist ubiquitously throughout our lives. communication technologies, transportation, the physical layout of cities and communities, and the pathways through which we are 'informed' of events around the world are the impetus behind his video and sound compositions. scott often performs under the moniker 'swipe'.
He recently co-curated a DVD of 9 experimental video artists with Nix Perry entitled RELINE. this compilation brings together a range of artists employing custom software and modified hardware to create work that focuses on graphic abstraction and the broken output of dysfunctional systems.
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ACT1 Saul Stokes+Swipe
VCD: $15.59 (60 min.)
VHS: $19.95 (60 min.) |
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