Prog:Space Festival, Templeball Gallery, 24 January 2004
photo by Ted Johnson
QR Code, http://www.subscapeannex.com
Bio
Steve Burnett is an improvisational musician who played alto clarinet and saxophone when young, and currently plays Chapman Stick, theremin, and electric upright bass. He performs in several improvisational, cinematic, and ambient groups of musicians in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. Steve's interest in collaborating with non-musicians led to projects such as working with the painters Nemo and Paul Friedrich. Playing art gallery openings allows him to explore relationships between sound and physical objects.Active in the local music scene, Steve maintains the NC Goth gothic/industrial website and the NC Prog (progressive rock) mail list. He was involved in the now-defunct AIM (Alliance for Improvised Music) and 919noise collectives, acts as the local rep for dorkbot and Copynight, started a nascent branch of the Phonographers Union, and hosts house concerts for improvised, experimental and related music at badgerhaus.
(Send email if interested in dorkbot, copynight, or phonographers union topics. )
Current projects:
- Subscape Annex - ambient/industrial improvisational looping
- Ouroboros - organic bass horn parasitism and symbiosis
- Cab Caligari - instrumental acoustic cello and electric upright arachnobass, fiddling while the Weimar Republic burns
- Shesha - a hundred-headed naga of electroacoustic double bass
Events, Exhibits, and Installations:
- late August or early September 2008 - Sydney, Australia - The (Second) Sound of Failure: Experimental Music in a Post-digital Era event - Don't Look Gallery
- 4 April to 13 April 2008 - Uppsala, Sweden - Art Is Not Mute sound archive exhibit - Uppsala konstmuseum (Uppsala Museum of Art)
- 2 February to 2 March 2008 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Art Is Not Mute sound archive exhibit - HIT - (Open Call (PDF) * poster * installation)
- 1 December 2007 - 17 January 2008 - Botkyrka, Sweden - Art Is Not Mute sound archive exhibit - Botkyrka Konstallen (English)
- 13 September 2007 - 19 October 2007 - Dunajvros, Hungary - Art Is Not Mute sound archive exhibit - Institute of Contemporary Art
- 24-26 August 2007 - Sydney, Australia - The Sound of Failure: Experimental Music in a Post-digital Era event - Don't Look Gallery - flyer
- 21 May 2007 - 16 June 2007 - Stockholm, Sweden - Art Is Not Mute sound archive exhibit- Ersta Konsthall
- 2007 - Vox Novus 60x60 - submitted composition for 2007
Online:
- Chain-Tape Collective:
- Caligari - collaborated on a new Creative Commons-licensed score for the classic film _The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari_. (download the video here)
- Papermusic
- paper as the only sound source. - Teisha - Spam mail-inspired composition (blog)
- CT-Birds
- CT-Of Birds and Men
- The Caustic Continuum podcast (contributor)
Former projects:
- Phasmatodea - cinematic improvisational Chapman Stick duo
- Audio Arcade - the sound of many
- Laocoon - solo looping, tangled in the cords and loops like serpents
- Fukadugalon - improvisational tribal noise
- Seventeen Cobwebs for Emily (17CFE) - studio project with others, 1999-2000
- Total Information Awareness - ambient trance, what turned out to be a one-off with Joe Hendrix
Other Activities and Links:
- Member, Leonardo/ISAST (Leonardo/the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology)
- Member, HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory)
- Member, SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts)
- Member, American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE)
- Reviewer, EMS08
- Contributor to the NY Society for Acoustic Ecology's Giant Ear))) radio show, 103.9FM
- Steve's effects chain and gear, out of date but relevant in scope
- Upcoming Shows and Complete Performance History
- Reviews of Subscape Annex and Related Projects
- Influences: Coil, Djam Karet, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Bill Laswell,
Tony Levin, Lightwave, Bill Nelson, Michael Nyman, Robert Rich,
David Torn, John Zorn.