Josh Sonstroem (see also Quoi, Fruit with Gun, Icelandic Tourist, and Mingle)
Influences
Amon Tobin, Otto Von SHirak, Richard Devine, Squarepusher, Alec Empire, Nurse with Wound, Salvador Dali, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, The Brothers Quay, the Bolex Brothers, Dusan Makevej, etc.
Sounds Like
One Auralox listener described his music as such: "It's like a mildly brain damaged Amon Tobin got a hold of Otto Von Shirak's old laptop in a Miami thrift store and locked himself in a room with nothing but food, water, laptops, and psychedelics."
Auralox Bio:
Who: Joshua Sonstroem (aka Quoi, Fruit with Gun, and Christian Meth)
What: Audio (dark & glitchy IDM, sound sculpture, mastering), Video (audiovisuals, stop motion, motion graphics) - see Absent Productions and Filling Bars websites below,
Sculpture (ready-made objects, 3d collage, photography), and Text (free verse poetry, short stories)
Where: Currently Asheville, NC; Previously Sarasota, FL and Orlando, FL
When: 1997 to present and beyond...
Why: To titilate your aural tastebuds, interest your ocular nerves, and hopefully help to change the way we think about the differential intersection of visual art, music and philosophy
How: PC (Fruitty loops, Ableton Live, Wavelab, lots of VST's, etc), Macintosh (Max/MSP, Logic, Reaktor, Absinthe, etc), instruments (trombone, thumb piano, lap harp, melodica), hardware (synths, MIDI controlers), vinyl, and film/dvd/video
The sound of Auralox is the music of desiring machines. Thousands of interleaved and disconjunct circuts, churning away in their happy heterogeneity, glitching and droning on and off into infinity. You could call it the spacetime dance of absence, of difference, of other, of khora, of lacuna. Its only through these numberless little births and deaths that music gains its life and can begin to affect you emotionally, to change you mentally, and to challenge yopur expectations of reality. Only then has music lived up to its creative potentiality - its ability to express the linguistically inexpressible. This is the dream that Auralox aspires to. One Auralox listener described his music as such: "It's like a mildly brain damaged Amon Tobin got a hold of Otto Von Shirak's old laptop in a Miami thrift store and locked himself in a room with nothing but food, water, laptops, and psychedelics." Apt enough of a description, but you'll have to decide for yourselves - so give Auralox a listen or two and maybe you too will fall in love with his schizophonic sound!
Everything is pleasing to the senses around here!! BIG ups! Keep doin' what ya love!!!
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