s*

Heteronym of an offworld entity and an eclectic improviser with broken machines, turntables, reel-to-reels, and acoustic-electronic instrumentation, s* has performed across the planet as part of a life-long mission to raise the ritual sound of undead frequencies. Interventionist strategies have included surveillance manipulations of public radio, erratic sculpture using obsolete technologies, interactive sound installations in locative wireless networks, sonic occupations of crown land, and the establishment of temporary rhythm machines in abandoned warehouses. Attempts to escape consciousness via sound have been explored during 17 years of persistent interventions through sound and word. s* is an unconscious collaborator with microsound composer tomas phillips (if not, winter, and/OAR, 2005), noise improviser katherine kline of dreamcatcher (glyphs of erebus sublime, IO SOUND, 2012), radio-artist a.j. cornell (1981/1999, IO SOUND, 2012) and composer matthijs vincent kouw (THUNDERKLAP, IO SOUND, 2012). Experiments in Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), recorded as Tactical Tape Loop Division, were commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts in 2008 and remixed by Richard Chartier, i8u, coingutter, t. phillips, scant intone, and Jeff Carey on unearthed from airwaves (IO SOUND, 2011). s* has performed worldwide, from the New Forms to the MUTEK and No Placard festivals, with events at STEIM, SAT, OfficeOps, eXperimental Intermedia, and Eyebeam, with work featured by the CBC, BURN.FM, Soundfjord, and Kunstradio. IO.SOUND is its imprint.