GATEKEEPER – GIZA {BLADE}

#HDBOYS, the worlds first boyband in high definition, Summer 2011
Music recorded & produced by Aaron David Ross
Music composed by Alex Kelly-Hoffman & Aaron David Ross
Vocals performed by Alex Kelly-Hoffman
Visuals by Tabor Robak
Choreography by Colin Self
Attitude & video editing by Ryder Ripps
Steel, Rubber, Mallet, Custom Hardware & Software, Speaker
Installed at Sullivan Galleries in Chicago, IL Spring 2010
Single produced for Dis Magazines’ TRANCEWar
Finished 4th out of 38 in the competition
Written, Produced & Recorded by Aaron David Ross, AKA DRJ
Vocals by Colin Self, Art by Tabor Robak.
eZen Garden, Spring 2011.
http://www.aarondavidross.com/eZenGarden.mov
(Right click, “save link as”)
A simple way to use mouse scrolling as a direct means of meditation.
INSTRUCTIONS
Original music for Roland Juno 6 and Korg Wavestation as a tribute to the CSS web programming language.
Cascade 1
Cascade 2
Cascade 3
Recordings of Enya’s 1996 recording of the traditional Latin & Gaelic masterpiece Pax Deorum through an EMU Systems Modular.
Study and reinterpretation of Music of the Night from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 Broadway Musical The Phantom of the Opera.
Tracked Polyphony, EMU Systems Monophonic Modular synthesizer, Moog Vocoder
Whitney Houston’s I Have Nothing played by the Shoutbox Conductor
Shoutbox Conductor is a program that generates the playback speed of any MIDI file by comment data taken from the song’s Last.fm’s ‘shoutbox’.
The comment text is converted into ASCII values and used as a series of millisecond delays between each beat in the MIDI file.
“STORM COLUMN” video by Thunder Horse Video in collaboration with Gatekeeper, 2010.
Available now on VHS.
“SERPENT” video by Thunder Horse Video in collaboration with Gatekeeper, 2010.
Available now on VHS.
“CHAINS” video by Thunder Horse Video in collaboration with Gatekeeper, 2010.
Available now on VHS.
Sound provided for the Beijing edition of Radical Friend‘s Digital Flesh installation, via The Creators Project.
Collaboration with Matthew Arkell, Gatekeeper.
View the online version:
http://digitalflesh.thecreatorsproject.com/
More information available here.
Thunder Horse Home Video presents “GIZA: the HDvhs Experience”
Featuring six Videos from GATEKEEPER’s new album “GIZA” out on Merok Records.
Archival VHS w/ Laser Engraved Face & Rhino-Skin Box & Double-Sided Poster. Limited to 100 copies worldwide.
“Salvations” by Gatekeeper, installed at Scott Projects Winter 2008.
PRESS
The Neverending Story [No Fear of Pop | DU | 07 19 10]
Night Gallery [Gorilla VS Bear | TX | 07 14 10]
Constant Struggle Review [Mishka | NYC | 07 11 10]
“Constant Struggle” MP3 [FADER | US | 07 07 10]
Night Gallery [NEU Magazine | UK | 07 07 10]
Night Gallery takes us back in time [VICE | UK | 07 07 10]
Mary Bell [Don’t Die Wondering | UK | 01 10 10]
Good Evening and Welcome to the Night Gallery [VICE | UK | 11 19 10]
pureMood, Spring 2008.
Original and found footage, Original score.
GATEKEEPER’s OPTIMUS MAXIMUS, Released Fall 2009 on Kompakt subsidiary Fright Records.