SOLO WORKS
Music of the Night
[wpaudio url=”audio/MusicOfTheNight.mp3″ text=”Play Music of the Night“]Study and reinterpretation of Music of the Night from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 Broadway Musical The Phantom of the Opera. Reconstruction made by tracking the orchestra’s polyphony with an original EMU Modular synthesizer, in the style of Wendy Carlos’s Switched on Bach series. Moog Vocoder was used for the voice of the phantom.
Cascading Style Sheets
[wpaudio url=”audio/Cascade1.mp3″ text=”Play CSS Movement I”] [wpaudio url=”audio/Cascade2.mp3″ text=”Play CSS Movement II”] [wpaudio url=”audio/Cascade3.mp3″ text=”Play CSS Movement III”]
Original music for Juno synthesizer and vector wavestation inspired by the fragile grace and dynamic responsiveness of the CSS web programing language. This is the first in a series of solo synthesizer pieces paying tribute to a various code syntax structures.
GATEKEEPER
“Chicago’s finest purveyors of goulish EBM electro carnage.”
“…Gatekeeper’s music embodies all that we like about 1980s cinematic suspense; paranoid hallucinations, a phantasmagoria of green lights and ectoplasmic mist seeping through multiple fracture lines on the thin walls of reality, you can of course see the long shadow of one true master John Carpenter projected over the icy electroid landscapes and obsessive synth melodies painted on damp concrete with sounds made of black leather, cursed silver and blood-splattered celluloid.” -20JAZZFUNKGREATS
Gatekeeper Live at Abby Pub, February 2009.
Optimus Maximus, FRIGHT 001 © 2009.
[wpaudio url=”audio/OptimusMaximus.mp3″ text=” Play Optimus Maximus” dl=”0″] [wpaudio url=”audio/VisionsIII.mp3″ text=” Play Visions III” dl=”0″]
Press 2008-2009.
Fright Launches with Gatekeeper [Resident Advisor | AU | 09 18 09]
Kompakt’s new “slasher disco” [ FACT Magazine | UK | 09 18 09]
Slow Walk on Prefix [ Prefix Magazine | US | 08 12 09]
Slow Walk on Pitchfork [ Pitchfork Forkast | IL | 10 11 09 ]
Gatekeeper & Telepathe on 20JFG [VICE London | UK | 10 02 09]
Blood Money [20 Jazz Funk Greats | UK | 01 20 09]
Slow Walk [La Maladie Tropicale | TX | 01 05 09]
Final Approach [Digital Heroine | NY | 11 17 09]
So Haunted Compilation [Gorilla VS Bear | TX | 10 31 08]
Gatekeeper on Arawa [Arawa | CA | 10 31 08]
Guts and Gore Galore [Disco Workout | CA | 10 23 08]
The White Void [20 Jazz Funk Greats | UK | 10 01 08]
Gatekeeper on Trash Managerie [Trash Menagerie | IL | 07 11 08]
Eerie letters from the new [20 Jazz Funk Greats | UK | 09 27 08]
NIGHT GALLERY
Night Gallery is a electronic songwriting, production and performance duo based in Chicago Illinois. Members Aaron David Ross and Adam Griffin tribute classic synth pop and new wave artists through a reverb-washed wall of bereaved vintage pop-electronic bliss.
[wpaudio url=”audio/twoManyMen.mp3″ text=” Play Two Many Men“] [wpaudio url=”audio/MaryBell.mp3″ text=” Play Mary Bell“] [wpaudio url=”audio/sexCurse.mp3″ text=” Play Sex Curse“]
Night Gallery’s debut EP, Constant Struggle, will come out on Rainbow Body Reecords in Spring 2010.
Night Gallery Live at AV Aerie, February 2008.
http://www.myspace.com/nitegallery