New Media Contemporary Presents: Live Sound and Visuals Series
DEREK ROGERS | SEAN O'NEILL | ANDREW ANDERSON & COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD
Derek Rogers (b. 4 September 1980) is a Dallas-based musician active in electronic composition, drone, free-improv, ambient, and noise textures. He utilizes computer processes as well as traditional instrumentation and field recordings to create emotionally resonant work, tending toward long forms and soundscapes. Rogers works predominantly as a solo artist, with some 50+ albums released since 2007. Recent collaborations include projects with musicians such as Dennis Gonzalez, A.F. Jones, and Lee Noble.
"...electronic musician Derek Rogers is a genius when it comes to balancing minimalism with dense, abstract ideas. His expert sense of patience, mood and timbre was stunningly exemplified in his Circuit Rider UK collaboration with Lee Noble out on Jehu & Chinaman earlier this year, garnering much praise." -ˇ-ˇ Diego Aguilar (Decoder Magazine)
Sean O’Neill is an Austin based artist working with sound, light, and electronic media. His projects often take form within the context of spatialized audio as it relates to perceptions of dynamic environments, acoustics of structural spaces and natural ambience. O’Neill experiments with electroacoustic materials, multi-speaker configurations, and constraints of medium, infrastructure, and format error. He is interested in the use of DIY electronics / software and responsive systems, often incorporating found objects and barely functional AV equipment into his performances and installations. His work has been presented at various venues and festivals including No Idea Festival, Re-New Festival Copenhagen, New Media Art and Sound Summit, Amsterdam Light Festival, and DATA CITY Enghien-les-Bains. O’Neill’s most recent recordings are in collaboration with Alex Keller, and available on Elevator Bath, Mimeomeme, and Loma Editions.
ANDREW ANDERSON & COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD
Andrew Anderson, based in Portland OR, creates sound pieces out of carefully curated field recordings, hidden samples, destroyed tape, and various instruments, both electronic and analog, with a focus on quiet repetition, drone, and patient change. The formative rhythms of summertime lawn mowers, passing airplanes, and cawing crows from the backyard of his childhood in the Pacific Northwest inform his unique ear and subtle sensibilities. He explores global themes of changing climates, political upheaval, human and animal rights, and all the liminal spaces in between, as well as more personal topics such as self-growth and social anxiety, with several self-releases, on both cassette and digital formats, as well as the project THAA with Thor Harris (Swans, Thor & Friends, Shearwater, Angels of Light, etc.) In 2022 he joined the label Elevator Bath for his latest solo release, "Vagrancies:" a ghostly meditation on the chaos of the last several years.
Colin Andrew Sheffield was born in El Paso, Texas and now lives in Austin. He is the founder of the Elevator Bath record label (founded in 1998) and has released a number of solo recordings on labels such as Auf Abwegen, Glistening Examples, Mystery Sea, and more, in addition to several collaborative releases and performances with turntablist, James Eck Rippie as well as with David Reed (as The Palladists) and with Andrew Anderson (their duo cassette release is forthcoming from the Grisaille label). Since the mid-’90s, Colin Andrew Sheffield’s audio collage work has consistently focused on the use of samples: deconstructed loops of hidden textures and timbres found in his collection of physical media. Sheffield’s most recent solo LP, “Images” (Elevator Bath, 2023), was entirely crafted from samples from jazz records; it has been critically acclaimed/championed by Soundohm, Bandcamp, and Brainwashed, among others.