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1 | Minor Things | 17:03 |
At once remote and then drawn impossibly close, Billy Steiger's playing sits stony faced between the fantastic and the real. Given the chance, his music will lead you out of the live venue, out of your own head, and tell you looped fragments of stories you can't quite put your finger on. Magic.
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Billy Steiger / violin
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Recorded on Thursday 11th August, 2016 by Adam Matschulat. Mixed by Billy Steiger. Mastered by James Dunn.
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Tracklisting:
1. Minor Things - 17:03
Billy Steiger is an artist working across performance, recording, drawing, and printmaking. This work often takes systems of reproduction, transmission and mediation as both material and subject.
Active/upcoming solo projects include:
- a proposed (re)history of technology, using the vibrating string as framing mechanism.
- an album of modified pipe organ recordings, to be released by OtoRoku in 2027.
- an ongoing investigation into audio compression algorithms and the artefacts and loss inherent to digital/analogue boundary states.
Active group projects include:
- O Yama O (w/ Keiko Yamamoto, Rie Nakajima, Marie Roux)
- X-Ray Hex Tet (w/ Paul Abbott, Edward George, Crystabel Riley, Pat Thomas, Seymour Wright)
- Portraits (w/ Daniel Blumberg, Seymour Wright)
Completed(?) solo projects include:
- composing and recording the score for Stacy Martin's short film Amaretti
- Box (for EKM) for piano and string quartet, premiered by Apartment House in 2024
- Loud Object, a 2023 violin record.
