Artists :

Keith Berry :

After immersing himself in the books of Aldous Huxley, Carlos Castaneda, Lao Tzu and Nietzsche, poetry from the great Sufi masters Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz, Jala al-din Rumi and Farid ud-din Attar, the Japanese philosophies of Wabi-Sabi, Zen and the I Ching, a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience through the symbolism of its hexagrams, Keith resurfaced with the aim in becoming technically proficient enough with his macintosh so as able to assimilate these philosophies to sound.

An encounter with Akira Rabelais's software programs Argeiphontes Lyre & Argeiphontes Recalcitrance - plus the usual array of more academic programs needed for sound design, helped shift his view of this little machine from an over glorified typewriter, to a powerful sound-tool that could transform, mutate and add a magical realist and random element into this labyrinth of sound experiments - which by now it's corridors had taken on an mystical otherworldly, yet organic sound, a sort of waking dream which if the listener had the right tools to penetrate could be awarded with a heightened awareness of their long upheld perception of the world around them, something religions of the East have called Maya, an illusion. "I work with blocks of sound in the same way a zen koan might work, in the sense that these "blocks" are supposed to be "triggers" which though they do not contain enough information in themselves to impart enlightenment, may possibly be sufficient to unlock the mechanisms inside one's mind that leads to enlightenment".

Born 1973, implanted into a normal life together with psyche that was already being filled with the numerous rubbish unnecessary for contemporary life Keith set about, like the birds in Attar's "The Conference of the Birds", in search of a Godhead and a divine unity with sound, space and the never ending pursuit of silence only to find himself back at the same harbour that his ship first set sail from. Keith's work has been released on such labels as trente oiseaux, Crouton Music, Authorized Version and Twenty Hertz. twoinchesofftheground.com

Paul Bradley :

Paul Bradley is a musician from the UK who creates tapestries of textural drones to redescribe the sonic landscape. Sounds are abstracted from life, reinterpreted and given a new context and along with instruments, most notably guitar, are disembodied and twisted into new soundworlds, transformed into rich, drifting, sonorous music. These "sensual strung-out vibrations" effectively marry digital with analogue and phonography with instrumental disciplines creating an organic abstraction of sound.

Artist statement: “What at first can appear to be minimalist environments, are in fact quite active and are often complex textural fields. There are themes that run through much of my work, however these are rarely made explicit as I like to think that there is something almost familiar yet un-nameable about my music, the essence of which would only be destroyed by over explanation and conceptualization. I strive for something more emotional, celestial and un-temporal, something that if reduced to the common denominator of language, would be lost.”

Releases have been issued on a number of labels, most notably ICR, Alluvial Recordings, Shining Day, Small Voices and also on his own label Twenty Hertz. Collaborations have also been plentiful working with contemporaries such as Colin Potter, Cria Cuervos, Darren Tate, Maile Colbert, Andrew Liles and also as a recent member of Monos.

Paul also runs the Twenty Hertz and edition sonoro labels issuing recordings from the likes of Ubeboet, Keith Berry, Irr. App. (ext.) and Jgrzinich.

Maile Colbert :

Maile Colbert is a filmmaker, video, and sound artist currently working in Lisbon Portugal.

She has had multiple screenings, exhibits, and shows, including The New York Film Festival, LACE Gallery, MOMA New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles, The Portland International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, and a two-week multi-media tour in Japan. Recently she was a visiting lecturer teaching Sound Design at UCSD; designed sound and composed for Rebecca Baron’s film How Little We Know of Our Neighbors, winner of the Black Maria Film Festival Best Film, designed sound for Adele Horne’s feature documentary The Tailenders, broadcasted on PBS POV and winner of a 2007 Independent Spirit Award, Allan Sekula’s epic The Lottery of the Sea, and designed sound for Betti-Sue Hertz’s multi-media mutli channel installation at the Centro Cultural Tijuana for the 2005 inSite Festival.

Website: here

Cria Cuervos :

Che ogni pensiero potesse svilupparsi completamente vuoto di suoni, pensavo un tempo, ogni pensiero in un vuoto assoluto di suoni, entrare a far parte dell'infinito, e invece non è possibile svolgere un pensiero completamente vuoto di suoni e che entri a far parte dell'infinito. Tutti i pensieri invece possono essere usati per l'annientamento totale delle nostra esistenza, come per l'annientamento di ogni esistenza. Thomas Bernhard. Website: here

Andrew Liles :

Andrew Liles has worked with many artists including Colin Potter, Bass Communion, Steven Stapleton, Darren Tate, The Hafler Trio, Karl Blake, Unsong, Band of Pain, Lord Bath, Sion Orgon, Andrew King, Nick Mott, Paul Bradley, Aaron Moore, Nigel Ayers, Irr. App (Ext), Jonathan Coleclough, Tony Wakeford, Frans De Waard, Freek Kinkelaar, Danielle Dax, Rose McDowall, Edward Ka-spel, vidnaObmana and Ruse. andrewliles.com

Colin Potter :

Colin Potter (from York, England, currently living in Preston, UK) is the outstanding and influential experimental artist, sound engineer and musician. While best known for his collaborations with Steven Stapleton on numerous Nurse With Wound recordings, Colin has also worked extensively since the early eighties with David Jackman (Organum), Current 93, Ora, Monos, Andrew Chalk, Darren Tate and Jonathan Coleclough to name but a few. His career as a solo artist and engineer started more than 25 years ago while working in the underground cassette scene, which he pioneered with his own label ICR (Integrated Circuit Records), also well known as his distribution and studio. icrdistribution.com

Darren Tate :

Darren Tate - Born 08/05/1966.

Started in music around about 1983, early recordings with Andrew Chalk.

My likes : House Plants/Cacti, Cats, Cat Paintings, My Watercolours, The Residents, Haco, Iva Bittova, Some Jazz, Curries, Goblins, DaDa, Panda my Cat, My Music, Lots of Different Music too.

Thanks to everyone who has bought & listened to my recordings over the years.

Now I have an E-Mail address too:

d -dot- tatemonos -at- yahoo -dot- co -dot- uk

I should have more correspondance with people.

- Darren Jan 2007.

Ubeboet :

m.a. tolosa (ubeboet) is a sound artist based in madrid. involved in electronic/experimental music since mid 90's, his works are focused on musique concrète, drone, phonography and minimalism. his work has been released on labels such as nonvisualobjects, zeromoon, earlabs, test tube and others. various sound collaborations with artists asher, dale lloyd and pablo reche. he runs the netlabel con-v. www.con-v.org/ www.con-v.org/ube/