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CULTURESPORT

CULTURESPORT Developed in relative secrecy over the past five years, CULTURESPORT is an animated science fiction web series set inside a sprawling fictional universe—the result of intensive and ongoing collaboration between artists, designers, musicians, actors, dancers, brands, and CULTURESPORT’s in-house creative team.

Music & sound design by Aaron David Ross, Joe Kubler, Jake Merrick, Javier Morales & Rotterdam Terror Corps

Arranged, Mixed & Mastered by Aaron David Ross "ROTTERDAM 95"
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LUAR – CORPORATIVO

Runway original soundtrack by
Aaron David Ross + Gatekeeper LUAR - CORPORATIVO FW 2018 In Raul Lopez’s Corporate America, Men Wear Skirts and Dresses to the Office"
- Vogue
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GROUND ZERO

Projected onto a large transparent screen bisecting the Schinkel Pavillon, the film Being Human (2019) forms a three-dimensional hypertext for a collection of original paintings and sculptures by some of Sri Lanka’s foremost contemporary artists, purchased from one of the capital Colombo’s most influential commercial galleries and presented by Thomas and Kuhlmann as a show-within-a-show. Shot in Sri Lanka, their film traverses documentary and fiction. It features Thomas’ uncle (a family hero who founded the Centre for Human Rights in Tamil Eelam), a well-known painter, a famous pop star and a young Tamil artist—some of them algorithmically synthesized characters—who take the viewer on an elliptical journey around the island, from the fallout of the Sri Lankan Civil War to the biennale founded in its aftermath. Exploring the interrelationship between contemporary art and human rights in an era of technological acceleration, Ground Zero reflects upon issues of individual authenticity, collective sovereignty and what it means to be "human" when machines are able to simulate human understanding ever more convincingly.

"GROUND ZERO"

by Christopher Kulendran Thomas + Annika Kuhlmann
Original Music and Sound Design by Aaron David Ross

at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
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SOUNDTRACK VIDEO WORKS

YOU WASTED A GOOD CRISIS

YOU WASTED A GOOD CRISIS

A Good Crisis features the Night King from HBO’s Game of Thrones discussing the missed opportunity for economic revolution following the mid-2000s global financial crisis. He explains how financiers and CEOs now revel in the feudal frenzy of the “new rentership society,” a term propagated by private equity firms to explain the economic shift that has seen the renter population of the United States soar in the aftermath of the 2008 housing crash.

Created by DIS
Score by Aaron David Ross
Directors of Photography Alex Gvojic and Rory Muhlere
Edited by Anthony Valdez
SFX Supervisor Zanzie Addington-White
SFX Makeup April Townes
Featuring Brett Benowitz, and Jason Kappus
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FASHION PERFORMANCE SOUNDTRACK WORKS

TELFAR – NUDE

TELFAR Installation & Performance, Spazio Maiocchi Milan, 2018. Presented by Kaleidoscope "NUDE" Launching his eponymous line in 2005 at the age of 18, Liberian-American unisex prodigy Telfar Clemens has developed a strikingly original and democratic design vocabulary. Laying the blueprint for today’s black avant-garde, TELFAR was genderless a decade before it became a trend, launching projects with a remarkably horizontal cultural impact—from collaborations with Solange Knowles at the Guggenheim Museum to designing the nationwide uniforms for over 10,000 employees of the US fast-food chain White Castle. After winning the 2017 Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund, TELFAR is poised to take its place in the foreground of America’s fashion future.

At Spazio Maiocchi, KALEIDOSCOPE presents TELFAR’s first project in Italy, Nude, a fashion presentation without a single garment, eloquent to the brand’s progressive aesthetics and artistic DNA. The exhibition centers around a 30-feet-tall nude image of the designer by photographer Rob Kulisek surrounded by ten nude and genderless sculptures designed by American artist Frank Benson and manufactured by German state-of-the-art mannequin factory Penther Formes—an updated version of the iconic mannequins presented by TELFAR in the 2016 Berlin Biennale. The show is completed by a short film about Telfar’s apartment building in Queens, New York, by filmmaker Finn MacTaggart; and a musical composition written for clapping by Aaron David Ross in collaboration with artist Ryan Trecartin.

TELFAR’s exhibition will also take over the 3x6m billboard in the courtyard of Spazio Maiocchi, and will be accompanied by a book of images by New York photographer Jason Nocito, a performance by South-African musical duo FAKA, and an exclusive limited-edition T-shirt. Soundtracked by Aaron David Ross & Ryan Trecartin in collaboration with Telfar & Babak Radboy, featuring FAKA
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KELELA – JUPITER

KELELA

"JUPITER"

from "Take Me Apart"
The debut album from Kelela

Music by Aaron David Ross
Voice narrated & written by Ryan Trecartin
Created with Telfar + Babak Radboy TELFAR FW17 "WHAT PEOPLE" read about on
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ADR WORKS

ADR – THROAT

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FADER | PAPER | BOOMKAT | TINY MIX TAPES
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PITCHFORK | RESIDENT ADVISOR | RAVEN SINGS THE BLUES THROAT ‘THROAT’ is the 4th studio solo album by composer/producer Aaron David Ross (ADR). Arriving as the New York artist’s second release on PAN, ‘THROAT’ is made entirely from vocal sounds. It could only be crafted in the ultra-present; an age where the poetry of songwriting is flattened into catchy hooks. As words are sliced into sounds, ideas are reduced to sibilant syllables that still contain a range of emotional power, but deliver it in subversively different ways.

‘THROAT’ exploits these ways, borrowing vocal fragments from everywhere to collage a choral congregation of singing servers; pinging one another to create open-source equal-opportunity electronic pop music. Reichian polyrhythmic EDM drops into Bieber-esque beatboxing. Hypothetical K-pop stars conduct holographic choirs in altruistic ritual. Virtual summer festival DJs transcode into pure phonemes; anthropomorphizing formant-shifted vacuums of communication. When you drop the cargo of making sense, you can go so much faster.

As a classically trained musician inspired equally by pop and contemporary art & technology practices, ADR’s work has distinguished itself through its formal deliriousness and playful tenor. Besides ongoing collaborations with an international community of vocalists, producers, artists and fashion designers, Ross releases solo recordings, composes music for film, TV and advertising, and maintains a practice of live performance and sound installation.

Mastered by Jeremy Cox / Artwork by Alex Gvojic.
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ADR – EVERY NODE

ADR "Every Node" "New York-based producer ADR, who also works as one half of the duo Gatekeeper, has shared a collage-based new video for “Every Node,” off his recently released LP Throat. The self-produced clip evokes the experience of scrolling through a Google image search for “mouth,” and builds on conceptual questions explored on the new album about the relationship between mediated communication and the voice. Every sound on Throat is a vocal sample of some kind; “Every Node” finds ADR using the technique to produce something that’s equal parts funny, gorgeous, and uncanny." Read about on
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LUAR – DEFECTOR

Runway original soundtrack DEFECTOR FW 2017
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PERFORMANCE WORKS

RYAN TRECARTIN JAZZFEST

“There is nothing else in today’s art world even remotely like Ryan Trecartin‘s videos,” proclaimed Art in America. “It’s a sci-fi theater of the absurd for our manically paced YouTube era.“ Within these fluidly structured and visually commanding works, Trecartin’s groundbreaking sound design—a densely layered mix of rapid-fire dialogue, electronic music and live instrumentation—extends the depth, intensity, and insane hilarity of his art. He is joined by his principal collaborator Lizzie Fitch, music producer and DJ Ashland Mines (aka Total Freedom), and composer/producer Aaron David Ross (who will be conducting and doing the music direction) to present a new, digitally-inflected sonic composition live for the very first time.” – Armory Press Release JAZZFEST RYAN TRECARTIN
TOTAL FREEDOM
AARON DAVID ROSS Selected Press: Armory Listing | Art News NOVEMBER 2016, Presented by the Armory Artists' Studio, New York
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PRESENT IN DRAG

A series of videos for the 9th Annual Berlin Biennial
By DIS and Babak Radboy

 THE PRESENT IN DRAG Speculative Ambience/Narrative Devices Produced by Iconoclast + Julia Burlingham
Music and Sound Design by Aaron David Ross watch on dis.art
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DISTRACTED PATH TOWARD EXTINCTION

Film by Korakrit Arunanondchai and Alex Gvojic featuring Boychild
Original Score by Aaron David Ross
Premiered at the 9th Annual Berlin Biennale, 2016
On a Boat sailing up and down the Spree River, Berlin There’s a word I’m trying to remember, for a feeling I’m about to have (a distracted path toward extinction)
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COLLABORATIONS LAFAWNDAH WORKS

LAFAWNDAH – ALLY

Official Music Video for ALLY from the ‘Tan’ EP on Warp Records

Produced by Lafawndah, Aaron David Ross, Nick Weiss
Written by Lafawndah "ally"