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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES (alphabetically ordered)
KIM CASCONE
Formally trained in electronic music at the Berklee College of Music and the New School in New York City. Founded Silent Records in 1986. Worked on David Lynch's Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart as Assistant Music Editor. Sound designer and composer for Thomas Dolby's company Headspace. Since 1980, Kim has released numerous albums of electronic music on Silent, Mille Plateaux, Anechoic and 12k to name a few. Kim Cascone has performed/lectured at the Lovebytes Festival (UK), Micro 2 Mutek (Montreal), Transmissions Festival (North Carolina), Tate Modern (London), Observatori Festival (Spain). Cascone was one of the co-founders of the microsound list (http://www.microsound.org) and writes for Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) and Artbyte Magazine.
MORE INFO VIA: http://www.anechoicmedia.com
eM
eM is the name under which Michael Bentley, director of Berkeley California based Foundry label, records his solo works of electronic music. Works by eM cover a range of experimental and ambient shadings, and include the titles Greater than Zero, Less than One and All the Stars Burning Bright (for The Foundry), and Import (part of the critically acclaimed invalidObject series from Irish label Fällt). eM tracks have also appeared on various compilations (including MIT Press' Computer Music Journal Sound Anthology 2000 and No-Type's Freest of Radicals) and internet sites (Tiln and, later this year, No-Type).
MORE INFO VIA: http://www.foundrysite.com/eM/
HIGH SKIES (MAT JARVIS)
Mat Jarvis' first releases were under the name Gas on Emit/Time Recording. He released a string of tracks on various electronic compilation albums and an album 0095 on Emit. This included the electronic/ambient classic Microscopic, which regularly scored 10 out of 10 in reviews.
This will be the first release under the new name High Skies, and there are a whole bunch of other releases due in the next few months.
MORE INFO VIA: http://www.highskies.net
JONATHAN HUGHES
Jonathan Hughes has released a handful of CDs under the pseudonym Subspace, including the inventive two disc set Fluid: environmental sound modules one through ten and the wonderful Low Frequency Oscillator. Jonathan also recently collaborated with Mollusk on four tracks (one of which is available on Mollusk's Foundry release Accretions and another on the upcoming Lost and Found compilation). Jonathan's CD Trillium will be released by The Foundry in the Spring of 2002.
MORE INFO VIA: http://www.dronelab.com/
RHOMB
Rhomb, Nathan Kreisberg and Michael Bentley, have been playing and composing music together since high school, with breaks for travel and graduate school . Rhomb have been influenced by many artists, including Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, Vangelis, and Tonto's Expanding Head Band, as well as more recent artists like Aphex Twin and Autechre. Rhomb's releases include Hidden Topographies and the 3" CD EP Lunatic, as well as contributions to the Foundry release Mote. Several future projects are in the works for Rhomb.
MORE INFO VIA: http://www.foundrysite.com/rhomb/
SEOFON
Seofon is the theoretical identity of a student of world mystery. Best known for his long-standing production work with the Ambient Temple of Imagination, Seofon also records esoteric electronica under his own name, collaborates heavily within the Archipelago collective, and is involved in a variety of other experimental projects including San Francisco's Content Provider. Last year Seofon completed Zero Point, an Ambient Temple collaboration with ambient music luminaries Vidna Obmana, Steve Roach, and others, also released on Foundry/Hypnos. In 2000 Seofon attained a degree in cognitive science from the University of California at Berkeley, with which he intends to rigorously explore the interplay between sound and consciousness.
MORE INFO VIA: http://www.a-toi.com/seofon/
SKETCH
Sketch is a duo of Tor Jørgensen (Programming, samples, electronics, guitar & bass), and Kai Mikalsen (Programming, samples, voice & electronics) who have made music together since 1987. Releases include Reasons to Sway (on Apollo Records), Abeyance (on Sketch's own Mold label, containing two discs of material originally slated to appear on R&S), Zincanode (on Racing Junior), and 59*56'N 10*44'Ø 21.09.00 (on Subtopia, a live recording from the Zincanode release party), as well as appearances on Arctic Circles Vol. 1 & 2 (on Beatservice) and Det Norske Hut (on D-but). Sketch also provided the soundtrack for Erik Sjolbjergs short-movie I sirkel in 1995, and perform regularly in their native Norway and the rest of Europe, including appearances at Olso's So What festival, the infamous Blå, and as support for legendary psychedelia-band Gong.
MORE INFO VIA: http://www.racingjunior.com/sketch-E.htm
THERMAL
Thermal has been making music for many years, both as a member of M-1 Alternative and as a sometimes member of the Ambient Temple of Imagination and Freezer. Thermal has also produced several solo projects, and his releases include the Span 3" CD EP for Archipelago; A Monument of Chance and Time out of Mind for his own Boxman Studies label; and appearance on several compilations including Knots (on Thousand/WMO), Sleeping Off Stolen Dreams (on Little Echoes), and Excursions in Ambience: The Fourth Dimension (on Astralwerks). New releases are immanent.
MORE INFO VIA: http://www.boxmanstudies.com/
MARK VAN HOEN
Mark Van Hoen has worked both as a musician/composer (under his own name and as Locust) and producer (Autocreation and Scala). Releases as Locust include: Weathered Wall, Natural Composite, Morning Light, Truth is Born of Argument (all on Apollo), and the intriguing double disc Wrong (on Touch). Releases as Mark Van Hoen include: Playing With Time (on Apollo) and The Last Flowers From the Darkness (on Touch). New material will be released later in 2002.
MORE INFO VIA: http://www.locustsound.com